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4/7/03

PISKOR LECTURE AT SLU EXAMINES COLLABORATIVE PROCESS

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Priest Associate Professor 
of Physics Karen Johnson will give the 2003 Frank P. Piskor 
Faculty Lecture on Tuesday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in 
Herring-Cole Hall, on the topic "Spontaneous Human Collaboration: 
Using Disciplinary Thinking to Study Interdisciplinary Work."
	In the lecture, Johnson will examine the differences in 
the ways physics and chemistry approached problems in the l930s 
and 1940s, as a way to analyze the interdisciplinary nature of 
the work of Maria Goeppert Mayer, a physicist, and her husband, 
Joseph Mayer, a chemist.
	The Piskor Faculty Lectureship was established in 1979 
to encourage original and continued research among St. Lawrence 
faculty members, to recognize and honor distinguished scholarship 
and to afford the opportunity for faculty to share their learning 
with the academic community.
	Johnson, a historian of science, is at work on a biography 
of the Mayers. She has been a member of the St. Lawrence faculty 
since 1988. Johnson holds a bachelor's degree from Grinnell 
College and a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of 
Minnesota. She was appointed to the Henry Priest chair in physics 
in 1995.

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