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Albert Holland Prize for Public Presentations of Physics 2000

The winner of the 2000 Albert Holland Prize is Greg Baker!

The third Albert Holland Prize competition was held at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2000. An audience of students, faculty, and community members heard an array of impressive students lectures. Each lecture derived an important result in Physics. The six student contestants represented the diversity of the Hobart and William Smith Natural Science Division. The contestant and their lectures, in order of presentation, were:

• Greg Baker '00, a senior Physics major
  The Molecular Model of an Ideal Gas - Gift Wrapped Molecules in a Box
• Emelyn Smithe '03, a first year student in the 3-2 dual engineering program
  Bernoulli's Equation
• Jamie Hurlburt '00, a senior Biochemistry major
  Kepler's Second Law
• John Thomas '01, a junior Chemistry major
  The Carnot Cycle

Prof. Larry Campbell moderated the event. The judges were Prof. Donald Spector (Physics), Prof. Kalliopi Nikolopoulou (English), and Prof. James Spates (Sociology).

Greg Baker was chosen the winner!  

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For more information, contact: Theodore Allen, Associate Professor of Physics, ext. 3623, 108 Eaton Hall Dept. Secretaries: Ann Warner 781-3586 (8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Laura Sposato* 781-3587 (1 - 5 p.m.) FAX: (315) 781-3860