Fred Pattison
This lecture series was endowed by the family of Fred L.M. Pattison, Head of the Department from 1959 to 1965.
About Fred Pattison
Fred was born in Scotland, where he received his early education before going to the University of Cambridge in 1941 for undergraduate work in Natural Sciences, followed by a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. He then spent a year at Dalhousie University as Lecturer before joining the faculty here at UWO as Assistant Professor in 1948. He established a Ph.D. program in the department, and his research on biologically active organic fluorine compounds resulted in many publications, the award of an Sc.D. by the University of Cambridge, and a book: Toxic Aliphatic Fluorine Compounds. In 1959 he became Professor and Head of the Department, and he presided over the expansion of the department and its move to new facilities.
In 1965, Fred decided on a complete career change, and at the age of 42, he enrolled at 澳门六合彩开奖预测 as a first-year medical student. On completing his M.D. four years later, he interned at St. Joseph's Hospital here in London and served for a year as a resident in the Family Practice Program; he also took a diploma course in venereology at the University of Liverpool. In 1971-73, Fred followed up a long-standing interest in Canada's North people by working with the International Grenfell Association. He provided solo medical care for about 6,000 people scattered along 120 miles of the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland.
Fred returned to London in 1973, when he joined UWO's student health service, holding the position of Director at his formal retirement in 1988. During the same period, he was a clinical assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine, giving instruction in venereology, and director of the Middlesex-London Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic. On his retirement, Fred was able to resume his connection with the Chemistry Department with the rank of Professor Emeritus.
Honorably, Fred volunteered to be exposed to chemical weapons as part of the war effort, and in 1943 suffered temporary blindness from the experiment. The heroic story of Fred’s military contributions have been
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Previous Pattison Lecturers
- 2024 Jenny Y. Yang, University of California, Irvine
- 2016-2017 Michael Sherburn, Australian National University
- 2015 Craig Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2014 Stephen Hashmi, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 2013 Darren J. Dixon, University of Oxford
- 2011 Guy Bertrand, University of California, Riverside
- 2010 Dennis A. Dougherty, California Institute of Technology
- 2009 Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
- 2008 Erik Sorensen, Princeton University
- 2007 François Deiderich, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
- 2006 Juan C. (Tito) Scaiano, University of Ottawa
- 2005 Lutz Tietze, Georg-August-University
- 2004 Victor Snieckus, Queen's University
- 2003 Richard V. Wolfenden, North Carolina
- 2002 Anthony G. M. Barrett, Imperial College
- 2001 Dennis P. Curran, Pittsburgh
- 2000 Joseph B. Lambert, NorthwesternUniversity
- 1999 Sir Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University
- 1998 Larry E. Overman, UC San Diego
- 1997 A. J. Kirby, Cambridge
- 1996 S. V. Ley, Cambridge
- 1995 S. J. Benkovic, Pennsylvania State
- 1993 B. Trost, Stanford
- 1992 Sir Derek H.R. Barton, Texas A&M
