75 years of Polyethylene: Past Successes and
Future Challenges
A one-day meeting to mark the 75 years of scientific and technological
development since the discovery of polyethylene by Reginald Gibson and Eric
Fawcett on 27 March 1933
At the Dana Centre, London on 27 March 2008
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A series of presentations on the Discovery, Developments and Challenges
together with the unique opportunity to visit the Plastics Exhibition in the
Science Museum and see the original equipment used by Gibson and Fawcett in the
discovery of polyethylene
Speakers: Harold Fielding, Jamie Hobbs (Sheffield), Peter Hine (Leeds),
Walter Kaminsky (Hamburg), John Sale (British Polythene Industries) and Simon
Sutton (Dow) Plus Poster Session
The meeting will start at 11am (10.15am onwards for registration and close at
5.45pm). Registration is £90, £45 for students and includes the registration and
refreshments including lunch.
For details of registration and the meeting please contact Sherrie Foo,
Centre for Advanced Microscopy, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6
6AF 0118 378 4616 s.j.foo@reading.ac.uk
or see www.reading.ac.uk/cfam/75PE
Please send your poster title, authors and affiliations to
Sherrie Foo.
Meeting Organisers: Professor
Geoffrey Mitchell (Reading), Dr Fred Davis (Reading),
Dr Susan Mossman (Science Museum)
and Professor Alun Vaughan (Southampton)
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