| On 12 and 13 January, the inaugural Wilson Lectures were given, lectures supported by a gift by Raymond Wilson, BA'43, and his wife Dorothy. The lectures also were an opportunity to honor Professor Emeritus Robert L. Scott's contributions to phase equilibria and critical phenomena. They were given by two leaders in the field, Benjamin Widom of Cornell University, who spoke on the 12th on "Adsorption at the three-phase contact line", and Anneke Sengers of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, who spoke on the 13th on "Phase separation in fluids: Scott and the Dutch". Following the second lecture there was a dinner honoring Bob Scott's 55 years in the department. He nominally retired in 1993, but taught several courses later and edited the department newsletter from 1995 to 2003. The dinner, which was held in the Grand Salon of Kerckhoff Hall, was attended by more than eighty people, many of whom were former research collaborators of Bob's undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs. Eight attendees came from abroad: Sir John Rowlinson, Arthur Davenport, Ian and Alice McLure from Britain; Jürgen Specovius from Germany, Jan Stecki from Poland; and Arthur and Betty Williamson from New Zealand; four of these had been postdocs with Bob. |