This WEB site is
sponsored by
the University of Akron.

Meetings are at the
Tangier Restaurant, 532
West Market, Akron,
Ohio


    

Welcome to the Akron Physics Club WEB site.

Club programs deal with current issues in Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Cosmology, Biology, and a host of other topics.

Several new speakers are scheduled each year to present topics of current scientific interest.

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: NOVEMBER 23, 2009
(Yes, it's Thanksgiving week)

Tangier, 532 West Market Street, 6:00 PM- Dinner at 6:30

RESERVATIONS or REGRETS by Thursday, November 19th to:
Reservation Secretary Charlie Wilson: cww3mmwilson@juno.com
(330) 836-4167

    Speaker for our October meeting will be our own distinguished physicist, Dr. Georg Böhm, who has an interesting bio: After graduating in physics from the University of Vienna, Georg joined the Max Planck Institute, working in solid state physics. To learn more about polymers, he came to the U.S., accepting a visiting scholar position at Northwestern University.  But before returning to Germany he got an offer from Firestone to build a radiation research laboratory at Radiation Dynamics, Inc., on Long Island (which company Firestone later purchased).   Firestone brought him to Akron as assistant director of its Central Research Laboratories, and when Bridgestone purchased the company, he eventually became Vice President for Research. 

    Georg attempted to retire several years ago, only to be lured back as a consultant and given a new office one floor above to provide guidance for establishing the company’s creative objectives for the future.  Eventually escaping from that position, he has just formed a start-up company, admitting, “I just can’t let go.”  Georg has over 60 patents and about an equal number of publications.  The title of his November presentation is:   

NANOPARTICLES

    A nanoparticle is a particle having at least one dimension of the order of 100 nanometers or less — an extremely small object that behaves as a whole unit in terms of its transport and properties; and about which Georg has said, “Nanoparticles exist in nature; but the last decade has seen much research on producing, investigating and finding applications for synthetically produced particles of different composition, shape and properties ranging from semiconducting nanoparticles for quantum dot use to biodegradable nanoparticles for drug and gene delivery to cells and tissues. After a brief overview of the field and emerging applications the focus will be on the design and use of polymeric nanoparticles for the tuning of new materials.” (Darell Reneker has given us several introductions to the subject.)

 

VISITORS ARE WELCOME - COLLEGE STUDENTS are FREE

(But everybody needs a dinner reservation!)

    

    Please join us for our next meeting.  Pre-registration for dinner is required so that we can guarantee our reservations.  Dinner is $18.  To register, send an email to our Reservations Secretary - Charlie Wilson, at cww3mmwilson@juno.com  (or 330-836-4167)


Future meetings:

Date	Guest Speaker	Topic
January 25, 2010	Prof Peter Tandy (KSU)
February 22, 2010	Mahmoud Assaad (GTR)	Lunar Rover Vehicle Tire
March 22, 2010	Prof Jeff Carroll (YSU)
April 26, 2010	Prof Chuck Rosenblatt  (CWRU)	Magnetic Levitation in Fluids
May 24, 2010	Prof Rama Gorla (CSU)	Development of Aircraft -  Wright Bros to the Present

    The Web Committee would greatly appreciate your comments and suggestions on future content.  What additional WEB pages and features would you like to see added to this site?  Please email your suggestions to Charlie Wilson, or John Kirszenberg at kirszenb@roadrunner.com