International science leader to lecture at UQ

The president-elect of the world's largest scientific society will give a public lecture at the University of Queensland this month.

Professor Daryle H Busch, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kansas will serve as president of the influential 155,000 member American Chemical Society in 2000.

He will be guest speaker at the TGH Jones Memorial Lecture at lecture room 1118 in the Chemistry Building, St Lucia on Wednesday, May 26 at 5pm.

Head of the UQ Chemistry Department Associate Professor John Cotton said the University was fortunate to have Professor Busch on campus.

"The Society is very powerful in influencing many of the standards of chemistry in the United States, including academic syllabi. Sixty percent of its membership is in industry, and the Society is engaged in public outreach programs and public awareness campaigns," he said.

Professor Busch, who serves on six editorial boards including the Journal of Coordination Chemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry is an eminent metal coordination chemist. His Brisbane lecture is entitled A Journey into the Microcosm with a Molecular Organisation Man and will focus on knowledge management in the post-digital revolution and other challenges for the professions.

While on campus he will also give a research seminar on May 27 for UQ staff and students.

The TGH Jones Memorial Lectureship honours the late Thomas Gilbert Henry Jones CBE, who joined the staff of the UQ Chemistry Department in 1915 and retired in 1965 after being department head for 25 years. He initiated a research program into the chemistry of natural plant products, and during his period of headship, the Department of Chemistry grew into one of the largest and most vigorous departments of the University.

Media: For further information, contact Associated Professor John Cotton, telephone 07 3365 3837.