Daniell Webinar 2020

Our Daniell Lectures are delivered by internationally renowned scientists and cover a topic of current interest and excitement. Speakers are chosen not only for their outstanding contribution to modern scientific knowledge, but also for their ability to communicate the essence of their research to a young audience. This lecture is aimed at teachers and school students from the ages of 15 - 18 who are interested in studying Chemistry at university.

This year, our format will be a little different than it has been in previous years. We are delighted to welcome Professor Carrie Lear as our key note speaker, who will be delivering a pre-recorded online introduction to her and her work: “The Climate System: Lessons from Geochemistry”, which will explore how we can use chemistry to work out how our climate has changed in the past, from temperature, to carbon dioxide concentrations, to the size of ancient ice sheets, as well as what our future climate looks like.

We will then be hosting a live Q&A panel, on the 14 October 2020, with special guests:

• Professor Carrie Lear, Cardiff University
• Professor Richard Herrington, Natural History Museum
• Ms Zakiya Mckenzie, Black and Green Ambassador/Nature
• Ms Alexandra (Ali) Hepple, Sustainability Officer, King's College London

You can submit questions ahead of time, to any member of the panel, and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions live on the day as well.

Watch Prof. Lear's video on the King's website.

To submit questions for the panel, please visit our padlet page.

A link to join the Live Q&A, via Teams Live, will be circulated before the event.

The Daniell Lecture is delivered by the Department of Chemistry at King's, and sponsored by the Chilterns & Middlesex branch of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Since its genesis in 1995, this lecture series is in memory of John Frederic Daniell, who was appointed the first Professor of Chemistry at King’s College London. The first chemical laboratory was founded a few years later in 1834. Daniell remained at King's until 1845 and in 1846 the Daniell Scholarship was founded in his honour. Daniell invented the first electrochemical cell, laying down the foundations of the study of electrochemistry and hence influencing the study of Physical Chemistry. Today, the cell named after him, the ‘Daniell Cell’, can be found in Chemistry text books in schools and colleges the world over.

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