Saturday, March 29, 2003
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chemistry Building, Room 1351
Introductory Remarks: Prof. Bassam Z. Shakhashiri and Prof. John Wright
“Where Did Oxygen Come From?” – Prof. Patricia Kiley, Professor, UW-Madison Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry.
Demonstration 1: Peroxides, oxygen, and combustion.
Birth of Oxygen: Untangling the Web” –
Prof. Alan Rocke, Dept. of History,
Demonstration 2: Reactions of oxygen with glucose and dyes.
“Marvelous Biological Control of the Reactivity of Molecular Oxygen” – Prof. Brian Fox, UW-Madison Dept. of Biochemistry.
11:20 Demonstration 3: Prof. Marc Fink and members of the Pro Arte Quartet perform the first movement of Quartet for Oboe and Strings, K. 370, by Mozart, a contemporary of Lavoisier.
Prof. Roald Hoffmann,
“Toward an Environmentally Friendly Chemical Industry: Selective Chemical Oxidation with Molecular Oxygen” – Prof. Shannon Stahl, UW-Madison Dept. of Chemistry.
Demonstration 4: Reactions of oxygen with metals.
“The Unmaking and the Making of Chemical Elements: The Chemistry of Salts in the 18th Century” – Prof. Thomas Broman, UW-Madison Dept of History of Science.
Demonstration 5: Unusual properties of molecular oxygen.
and the Aging Process” – Prof.
Richard Weindruch, University of
Demonstration 6: Measuring oxygen inside and outside the body.
to Smuggle Science to the Public” –
Carl Djerassi, Dept. of Chemistry,
Concluding General Discussion
Demonstration 7: The thermite reaction – extracting molten iron from rust.