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The Really Big Rivals - Richard J. Miller

Thursday, May 18, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room (Ground Floor), 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program presents

A Montgomery Lecture

with

Richard J. Miller, PhD
Alfred Newton Richards Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

The Really Big Rivals

The debate between Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta on whether animals were capable of making electricity was one of the most important in the history of science. A newly discovered play by their exact contemporary Richard Brinsley Sheridan describes their intellectual and experimental rivalries.

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Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
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