Episode 237
Society for the Advancement of Science, Medicine and Surgery
Wed, 2017-Dec-27 00:25 UTC
Length - 2:12
Direct Link
Welcome to random Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a random Wikipedia page every day.
The random article for Wednesday, 27 December 2017 is Society for the Advancement of Science, Medicine and Surgery.
The Society for the Advancement of Science, Medicine and Surgery (Dutch: Het Genootschap ter bevordering van Natuur- Genees- en Heelkunde) was founded in 1790 in Amsterdam as the society for the Advancement of Surgery. Founder was Andreas Bonn, professor of anatomy and surgery at the Athenaeum Illustre, which is the predecessor of the University of Amsterdam. The Society then aimed at improving the quality of surgeons in Amsterdam. In the next century the Society realized that to reach this goal it was necessary to connect to physicians, and later also to scientists. Thus in 1870 the Society changed into its present form.
Membership of the Society is open to persons that hold a doctorate of the University of Amsterdam in Medicine or Science and to the faculty of the Medicine and Science faculty of the University of Amsterdam.
Activities of the society include
Organizing scientific meetings
Maintaining professorships by special appointment at the University of Amsterdam
Supporting students with travel grants
Honoring outstanding scientists by awarding medals
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:25 UTC on Wednesday, 27 December 2017.
For the full current version of the article, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_the_Advancement_of_Science,_Medicine_and_Surgery.
This podcast is produced by Abulsme Productions based on Wikipedia content and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Visit wikioftheday.com for our archives and sister podcasts. Please subscribe and never miss an episode. You can also follow @WotDpod on Twitter.
Abulsme Productions produces the current events podcast Curmudgeon's Corner as well. Check it out in your podcast player of choice.
This has been Emma. Thank you for listening to random Wiki of the Day.
|
|
Buy WotD Stuff!!
