Dr Michael Eddleston delivered talks to P1-3 and P4-7 Sciennes Assemblies on Friday 27th February 2015 about

1. Sciennes Primary
Assembly P4-P7
Friday 27th February 2015

2. DR MICHAEL EDDLESTON
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY

4. Why do people become scientists??

5. 1903
1911
1921

6. Marie Curie

7. Godfrey Hounsfield

8. His Question was:
How can I see what is in a person’s head?

9. But in more detail than by x-ray

10. 1960s

15. 1971 – first person ever to get a CT scan ….

16. Modern CT

17. MRI

19. Modern scanner

20. Incredible modern imaging of the body

21. Nobel Prize for Medicine 1979

22. Who was Nobel ?

23. ?

24. ?

25. Nobel invented TNT and used
his money to fund the Nobel Prizes

27. Rita Levi-Montalcini

28. 1936
Banned from working in medicine or university

29. Banned from working in medicine or university

30. Her question:
How does the brain connect?

31. She wanted to know about brain connections

32. Moved to work with her hero
Viktor Hamburger

34. ‘Something’ was released
by the tissue, causing
it to extend ‘shoots’

35. She found a protein that she called Nerve
Growth Factor or NGF

36. NGF helps cells survive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in2ig3c9lCQ

37. Nobel Prize for Medicine 1986

38. ?

39. Sciennes Values
 Respect
 Honesty
 Rights and Responsibility
Quality
 Equality
 Kindness
 Good manners
 Forgiveness
 Co-operation
 Citizenship

40. What have you done today that makes
YOU feel proud?
P4 Scots’ Night

41. What have you done today that makes
YOU feel proud?
Yash Winner of
Steven Lui Cup for
Burns Recital 2015

42. What have you done today that makes
YOU feel proud?
Cai and Ross
Rainforest Song

43. What have you done today that makes
YOU feel proud?
Wild About Scotland
Science Lab

44. What have you done today that makes
YOU feel proud?
Emma Bronze and Silver Medals
for Drama, Singing and Dance

46. CHANGE to MORNING BREAKS FROM MONDAY

47. Mon 2nd P6 and P7 Cross Country
Wed 4th JGHS staff visit P7
Thurs 5th World Book Day
P6/7 PTA Disco 6.30-8.00pm
Mon 9th P6 Euroquiz
P7 Basketball Final
Fri 13th Comic Relief Make Your Face
Funny for Money

49. This week’s house points
Tantallon Lauder
Sienna Grange