Dickinson College - Joseph Priestley Celebration

Joseph Priestley Celebration
October 4, 2001

The 2001 Priestley Award was presented to John Conway, the world's foremost knot theorist and professor of mathematics at Princeton University. Conway delivered the address, "Knots, Tangles and Numbers" before an audience in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.

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Photos by A. Pierce Bounds '71, Dickinson College

Top right: John Conway illustrates his address on "Knots, Tangles and Numbers" using his tie.

Lower right: student volunteers and President Durden get tangled up in knots.

Barry Tesman, John Conway, President Durden

Above: Mathematics Department Chair Barry Tesman, John Conway, and President Durden.