Dr joe schwarcz biography of william murphy

Joseph A. Schwarcz is an only child, born in Sopron , Hungary , [ 1 ] to Jewish parents. During the Hungarian uprising in , when he was age nine, the family escaped over the border to Austria and migrated to Canada and settled in Montreal , Quebec. Schwarcz became interested in magic and chemistry at the age of nine, when he saw a magician perform a rope trick at a school friend's birthday party.

Schwarcz started his teaching career at Dawson College before moving to Vanier College [ 1 ] [ 2 ] serving as chair of the Department of Chemistry at both colleges. He then returned to McGill University in where he teaches in courses in the Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Medicine with an emphasis on alternative medicine. He has used his knowledge of magic to show how supernatural feats can be done by ordinary means.

Even as a university student, Schwarcz found chemistry to be a dry subject, [ 2 ] so he established a series of courses designed to bring chemistry to the general student, and later to the public through a series of lectures. A lecture should seem spontaneous, even if it's been given many times before You capture the audience's attention.

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Then, without their realizing it, you pump a little scientific information into their brains. Before they know it, they've learned something. Schwarcz began his media career in after meeting Montreal Gazette reporter Ted Blackman at the Man and His World exhibition when he was demonstrating how to make polyurethane from two liquids. Blackman reported on the demonstration and made a significant error.

Schwarcz wrote to the Gazette , pointing out the error, and Blackman printed a retraction. The following week another scientific issue arose and he was called on again; this led to regular collaborations and to his own weekly radio show The Dr. Schwarcz has appeared hundreds of times on Canadian television and radio, including his single-season show about common foods called Science to Go on the Canadian Discovery Channel.