1970 Fredericton Convocation
Wiesner, Karel Frantisek
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Orator: Condon, Thomas J.
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L to R: Sir Max Aitken, Karel Frantisek Wiesner
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Source: UA PC-5 no.12(21); Photo by Stone's Studio
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1970
KAREL FRANTISEK WIESNER
to be Doctor of Science
Although we honor Karel Wiesner today it was he who honored us when he first came to UNB in 1948. A distinguished graduate of Charles University in Prague, he left his native Czechoslovakia full of youthful enthusiasm and scientific curiosity and has built over the years a world centre of natural product chemistry at this institution. His pioneering research in chemistry nurtured our own pioneering in the field of graduate education and the two have flourished together.
Professor Wiesner has been much honored. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and holds the Palladium Medal from the Chemical Institute of Canada. In 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, that oldest of all scientific societies in the world, which entitles him to call Voltaire, Darwin and Boyle his colleagues.
But the work of Karel Wiesner has been principally here in his New Brunswick laboratory. He is as young now in mind and spirit as when he first came to Fredericton. He continues to ask: “What are the most important scientific problems?” And he excites others by his personal quest for answers. Those of us who have known him have had our work and our lives enriched through his presence. We add our small honor to the many he has already received; we bestow it with gratitude for the many years he as spent among us.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
KAREL FRANTISEK WIESNER
to be Doctor of Science
Although we honor Karel Wiesner today it was he who honored us when he first came to UNB in 1948. A distinguished graduate of Charles University in Prague, he left his native Czechoslovakia full of youthful enthusiasm and scientific curiosity and has built over the years a world centre of natural product chemistry at this institution. His pioneering research in chemistry nurtured our own pioneering in the field of graduate education and the two have flourished together.
Professor Wiesner has been much honored. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and holds the Palladium Medal from the Chemical Institute of Canada. In 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, that oldest of all scientific societies in the world, which entitles him to call Voltaire, Darwin and Boyle his colleagues.
But the work of Karel Wiesner has been principally here in his New Brunswick laboratory. He is as young now in mind and spirit as when he first came to Fredericton. He continues to ask: “What are the most important scientific problems?” And he excites others by his personal quest for answers. Those of us who have known him have had our work and our lives enriched through his presence. We add our small honor to the many he has already received; we bestow it with gratitude for the many years he as spent among us.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
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