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| Monday, July 12, 1998 WRITER: Phil Williams, 706/542-8501, philwpio@uga.cc.uga.edu CONTACT: B. C. Wang, 706/542-1747, wang@bcl1.bmb.uga.edu NOBEL LAUREATE TO SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHENS, Ga. -- Nobel laureate Herbert Hauptman, a mathematician who pioneered and developed a mathematical model that has changed the field of crystallography, will speak on the University of Georgia campus as part of the 8th annual summer course of the American Crystallographic Association, which July 12-24. Hauptman will speak on Monday, July 19, at the course, which is being presented in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and in UGA's Life Sciences Building. He received the 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his model that opened a new era in the determination of molecular structure of crystallized materials. He is now the president of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. This is the second year he has spoken at the ACA summer course here. The course has participants from around the world, according to B. C. Wang, UGA's Georgia Research Alliance Ramsey Eminent Scholar. The course offers in-depth lectures on X-ray crystallography, which can be considered like a kind of microscope that allows far greater resolution than light microscopy and enables one to see atoms. When crystals are grown in a more orderly way, it's as if another turn of the focus knob suddenly brings a molecule into dazzling, razor-sharp focus. The work is difficult and requires years of study to master, so there are relatively few X-ray crystallographers worldwide. Reporters wishing to speak with Hauptman should contact Wang, John Rose at 542-1750 or Gary Newton at 542-3372. The Nobel laureate will be available for limited meetings with members of the media on July 19. The course features the most updated techniques in crystallography and has numerous teachers, including several from the University of Georgia. Supporters of the event include UGA, the American Crystallographic Association, the International Union of Crystallography and instrument vendors.
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