The Exact Sciences Society (later: ETS, from its Finnish name) is a society founded to promote connections between practitioners and scholars of different exact sciences in Turku area. It organizes seminars of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and astronomy as well as trips to (mainly) local scientific sites such as educational institutions, businesses and factories, and governmental institutions.
ETS was founded in 1925 by professors Yrjö Väisälä, Kalle Väisälä, and Matti Palomaa, several members of their scientific staff in the University of Turku, and some other interested people. The ETS has provided it's members and outsiders as well more than two hundred seminars over all the exact sciences. There have been about twenty trips to places like different scientific departments in the University of Turku, schools, Wallac Oy, and Turku airport.
Members have included several professors, headmasters, teachers, assistants, and students of exact sciences. In the beginning of the year 1996 ETS had over 150 members and operated actively organizing several seminars per annum.
If you require further information about ETS or have any questions or comments, you are welcome to contact our secretary Marko Mäenpää. Here are also some links to home pages of institutions close to ETS:
- University of Turku
- Department of Physics
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Astronomy