RSC Meeting in Poughkeepsie
May
20th, 2006
The Spring 2006 meeting was held at
40 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
845-485-5300
6.00 p.m., Saturday, May 20, 2006
Paul Stonehart talked on
"Making Money in Chemistry".
The
Spring Meeting of the Royal Society of Chemistry, (U.S. Section) was held at
the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel on Saturday May 20, 2006. All members were
welcomed and encouraged to attend an evening that had all of the components to
be instructive, entertaining, and useful. The Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel
and Conference Center is located in the historic downtown section of
Poughkeepsie just blocks from the waterfront. The hotel is ten minutes from the
Culinary Institute of America, Marist College, and Vassar
College. Poughkeepsie is in the heart of Scenic Dutchess County, nestled in
the Hudson River Valley, 90 minutes from New York City, and accessible by car,
train, bus and air. With its abundance of historic landmarks, restaurants,
festivals and natural scenic beauty, Dutchess County provides by itself a good
reason for taking a short weekend break.
The
program of the RSC U.S. Section Spring Meeting provides even more
justification. The evening began at 6:00 PM with a reception featuring
hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar, followed by dinner at 7:00 PM. After dinner our
speaker was Dr. Paul Stonehart, a loyal member of this Section. He discussed
the topic: “Making Money in Chemistry”, certain to be of interest to nearly all
members of the Section. The meeting adjourned around 10pm.
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About our speaker: Dr. Paul Stonehart is the 2004
Francis Bacon medalist and prize winner from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
He has about 200 papers, patents, books, reviews etc. in the fields of
electrocatalysis for rapid reactions, fuel cells, high surface area metal
crystallites, materials science of composite systems, structures of high
surface area carbons, polymer ion-exchange membranes, and gas-phase catalysis
and is recognized as a pioneer and major world authority in fuel cell science
and technology. Previously, in 2002 he was the RSC speaker at the AGM on
"How Impressionism differed from the prior art and how developments in
photography, color dyes & pigments, and artists materials influenced the
art for representation of natural colors in portraiture, fruit, flowers, and
clothing." Paul Stonehart was educated at the University of
Cambridge (King's College) and has a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1962) where he was a
Salters' Scholar. On leaving Cambridge he joined Stanford University, and
then the American Cyanamid Company, followed in 1972 as the Head of the
Advanced Fuel Cell Research Laboratories with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft
(United Technologies Corporation). In 1976, he founded Stonehart Associates
Inc. which now has been in business for over 30 years. He was appointed as
the first Diamond Shamrock lecturer in Electrochemistry and Fuel Cell science
at Case Western Reserve University and is an Associate Fellow of Branford College,
Yale University; an active member and Fellow of the Royal Society of
Chemistry where he served as President of the US Section and now as President
Emeritus; the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, the
International Society of Electrochemistry, and the Carbon Society. He has
held Visiting Professorships at the University of Connecticut (USA),
Yamanashi University (Japan), Witwatersrand University (South Africa); Monash
University (Australia); and th! e University of Alicante (Spain). |
Dr.Paul Stonehart |
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