Bulletin

Issue: August 2005

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Ron Elisha launches Einstein Lectures

Melbourne's multi-award-winning and internationally-performed playwright, Ron Elisha, delivered the first in a series of four La Trobe University Einstein Physics Lectures in August.

Titled Defying Gravity, the lecture was part of the University's contribution to Australia's 'Einstein Year' celebrations. With the play Einstein among his major successes, Ron Elisha explored why that name has become a synonym for genius. He discussed Einstein the person, his relationships with his family, his colleagues and his discoveries.

A general practitioner, Ron Elisha has won four Australian Writers' Guild Awards (AWGIES) for best scripts for works for stage and television, including the Major Award in 1982 for his play Einstein.