Madam, - A short note to inform your readers that Dublin Airport is pleased to make its small contribution to the embracing of Ireland's scientific heritage and to honour the bicentenary of William Rowan Hamilton's birth and International Physics Year (Mary Mulvihill, Opinion, February 15th).
The airport, in association with the Royal Irish Academy, has produced a series of exhibits to commemorate the vision, research and inventiveness of a number of significant Irish scientists and of some who had close associations with Ireland over the past 200 years.
Scientists featured include George Boole, the Cork man who devised Boolean Algebra, fundamental to the operation of all digital computers; William Rowan Hamilton himself, who discovered the revolutionary algebra of quaternions in a flash of inspiration while walking beside Dublin's Royal Canal; and Charles Parsons from Birr, Co Offaly, who invented the steam turbine.
If you are one of the more than 18 million passengers we expect to travel through Dublin Airport during 2005, try to take some extra time to go to Pier B and enjoy this informative tribute to Ireland's scientific heritage. - Yours, etc.,
VINCENT WALL, Director of Communications, Dublin Airport Authority, Dublin Airport.