Professor
Heinz Wolff is probably best-known as 'inventor' of Bioengineering
in 1954, a term used to describe an activity designed
to make the huge advances which had been made in technology
during the Second World War, available to the biological
sciences.
For over 30 years he has been involved with Television
and Radio, and in this field is mainly remembered for
series such as 'The Great Egg Race', 'Young Scientists
of the Year' and 'Great Experiments Which Changed the
World'. He passionately believes in the importance of
technical and scientific education for young people and
in getting them to think of the social and ethical consequences
of advances in these fields.
In 1993 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Open
University and in 1993 was made a Fellow of the Institution
of Electrical Engineers. In 1994 he was made a Fellow
of the Biological Engineering Society, and in 1995 received
an Honorary Doctorate from De Montford University, Leicester.
In 1999 he was given honorary Doctorates by Middlesex
University and Oxford Brookes University, and was made
an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
He is now Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering at Brunel
University but does much the same as he did before.
Heinz Wolff is an entertaining and humorous speaker and
an expert in a specialised, fascinating and mind-blowing
subject matter. During his after-dinner speeches he has
been known to carry out 'experiments' at the table and
on one occasion he made aluminium - highly original!
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