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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Alex Hopkins Lecture: the joy of discovery - Professor 
 Ben Feringa\, University of Groningen
DTSTART:20200320T170000Z
DTEND:20200320T181500Z
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CONTACT:Chloe Barker
DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED\n\nProfessor Ben Feringa's lecture\, scheduled for 2
 0th March\, has now been cancelled. This event was nominally part of Scien
 ce Festival which has now been cancelled in order to mitigate the risk of 
 spreading coronavirus. WIth that in mind it seemed the right decision to p
 ostpone this lecture until next year.\n\n----------\n\nhttps://www.science
 festival.cam.ac.uk/events/alex-hopkins-lecture-joy-discovery\n\nProfessor 
 Ben Feringa delivers the 2020 Alex Hopkins Lecture\n\nExploring across the
  current frontiers of chemical sciences there is vast uncharted territory 
 to experience the joy of discovery. Far beyond Nature’s design\, the cre
 ative power of synthetic chemistry provides unlimited opportunities to rea
 lize our own molecular world as we experience every day with products rang
 ing from drugs to displays that sustain modern society. In their practice 
 of the art of building small\, chemists have shown amazing success in the 
 past decades. Moving from molecules to dynamic molecular systems the funda
 mental challenge is how to control and exploit motion at the nanoscale. \n
 \nIn this presentation the focus is on my journey in the world of molecula
 r switches and motors\, the process of discovery and my personal experienc
 es through my scientific career. In particular I will address how fundamen
 tal questions and molecular beauty have guided me on this journey. \n\nBen
  L. Feringa obtained his PhD degree at the University of Groningen in the 
 Netherlands under the guidance of Professor Hans Wynberg. After working as
  a research scientist at Shell in the Netherlands and at the Shell Bioscie
 nces Centre in the UK\, he was appointed lecturer and in 1988 full profess
 or at the University of Groningen and named the Jacobus H. van't Hoff Dist
 inguished Professor of Molecular Sciences in 2004. He was elected Foreign 
 Honory member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is member a
 nd vice-president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he
  was appointed Academy Professor and was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen
  of the Netherlands.\n\nFeringa's research has been recognized with a numb
 er of awards including the Koerber European Science Award (2003)\, the Spi
 noza Award (2004)\, the Prelog gold medal (2005)\, the Norrish Award of th
 e ACS (2007)\, the Paracelsus medal (2008)\, the Chirality medal (2009)\,t
 he RSC Organic Stereochemistry Award (2011)\, Humboldt Award (2012)\, the 
 Grand Prix Scientifique Cino del Duca (French Academy 2012)\, the Marie Cu
 rie medal (2013) and the Nagoya Gold Medal (2013). The research interest i
 ncludes stereochemistry\, organic synthesis\, asymmetric catalysis\, optop
 harma\, molecular switches and motors\, self-assembly and molecular nanosy
 stems.
LOCATION:Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry\, Le
 nsfield Rd\, Cambridge\, CB2 1EW
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