2005 Media Releases
Thursday, 21 July 2005
Ron Elisha to deliver La Trobe University Einstein lecture
Melbourne’s multi-award-winning and internationally-performed playwright, Ron Elisha, will deliver the keynote La Trobe University Einstein Physics Lecture on Monday 15 August.
The lecture – titled Defying Gravity – is part of Australia’s ‘Einstein Year’ celebrations and will be held at 5.30 pm in the Western Lecture on La Trobe University’s main Melbourne campus at Bundoora, (Melway Reference C6 (29th ed.) Map 573).
With the play Einstein ranked among his major successes, Ron Elisha’s lecture will explore why that name has become a synonym for genius, by discussing Einstein the person and his relationships with his family, his colleagues and his brilliant discoveries.
A graduate in medicine in 1975, Ron Elisha has spent most of his career in full-time general practice. He has written stage plays, radio plays, teleplays, screenplays, children's stories, short stories and feature articles. Many of these have been published or produced, both in Australia and overseas, including the USA, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, France, Belgium and Poland. He has won four Australian Writers' Guild Awards (AWGIES) for best scripts for works for stage and television, including the Major Award in 1982 for the play Einstein.
Einstein Year in Australia is an initiative of the Australian Institute of Physics and is supported by the Federal Department of Education, Science and Training.
Other La Trobe University International Year of Physics lectures, on Mondays to follow, are:
22 August: Einstein's Science by Dr Andrew Peele, Department of Physics, La Trobe University
29 August: The Melbourne Connection: William Sutherland and the 'Sutherland-Einstein' Diffusion Relation by Rod Home, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
5 September: It all started with Maxwell by Dr Alan Chalmers, Flinders University.
All lectures will be held in the Western Lecture Theatre starting at 5.30pm. For further information, please ring (03) 94792622.