The Free Academy: Pavel Jungwirth

Nothing but water: Myths and reality, homeopathy and placebos 

“Water is probably the most studied system due to the fact that it is essential for life on Earth as a universal biological solvent. In this lecture, I will try to show that its behaviour can still fill us with wonder – and by that I mean the actual properties of water rather than myths, such as the reliably disproved theory of long-term memory of water, which is used as a justification by sellers of homeopathic remedies.”  

Professor Pavel Jungwirth is a Czech physical chemist and university lecturer. He has worked for many years in university teams in the United States, Israel, and Switzerland, and currently heads the molecular modelling research group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences. As a populariser of science, he contributes columns to the weekly magazine Respekt.