Professor Heinz Wolff

Category: After Dinner Speakers

Description

Professor Heinz Wolff is a highly respected scientist and was once Head of the European manned Space Commission.

He is probably best-known as the inventor of the term Bioengineering in 1954, to describe an activity designed to make the huge advances, which had been made in technology, during the Second World War, available to the biological sciences.

For over 30 years he has been involved with Television and Radio, and in this field is mainly remembered for series such as 'The Great Egg Race', 'Young Scientists of the Year' and 'Great Experiments Which Changed the World'. He passionately believes in the importance of technical and scientific education for young people and in getting them to think of the social and ethical consequences of advances in these fields.

In 1993 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University and in 1993 was made a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. In 1994 he was made a Fellow of the Biological Engineering Society, and in 1995 received an Honorary Doctorate from De Montford University, Leicester. In 1999 he was given honorary Doctorates by Middlesex University and Oxford Brookes University, and was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He is now Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering at Brunel University but does much the same as he did before.

Heinz Wolff is an entertaining and humorous speaker and an expert in a specialised, fascinating and mind-blowing subject matter. During his after-dinner speeches he has been known to carry out 'experiments' at the table and on one occasion he made aluminium - highly original!

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