Oxford Professor To Visit Christchurch

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32050, 26 July 1969, Page 17

Oxford Professor To Visit Christchurch

Professor C. A. Coulson, Rouse Ball professor of mathematics at Oxford University, and a member of the central committee of the World Council of Churches, will visit Christchurch on August 12 during a tour of New Zealand. He will arrive in Christchurch about midday on August 12, from Dunedin where he will represent the Royal Society of London at the centenary celebrations of the University of Otago.

In Christchurch he will speak to students at Canterbury University on science and religion and later in the afternoon he will conduct a seminar in the chemistry department of the university at Ham on the recent development in the theory of chemical bonding. That evening Professor Coulson will speak on “Science, Society and the Christian," at a meeting in the Durham Street Methodist Church.

The next day he will leave Christchurch for Wellington where he will present the Faraday lecture at a meeting of the Chemical Society of London. This will be the first time that the meeting has been held in New Zealand. Before leaving New Zealand, Professor Coulson will also visit Auckland. Professor Coulson, who has been Rouse Ball professor of mathematics at Oxford University since 1952, was formerly Wheatstone Professor of Physics at King’s College, London, for five years. He is a Methodist layman and was vice-president of the British Methodist Conference from 1959 to 1960. Since 1962

he has been a member of the central committee of the World Council of Churches.

Professor Coulson has written about four scientific textbooks, three general books, and 300 research papers, as well as many articles dealing with the relationship between science and religion.