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[Updated: 2003.12.13]
The President for the 2003–2004 session is Mr Case Rijsdijk.
Case was born in Holland and educated in Zambia. He studied physics at the University of Cape Town and did his post-graduate studies at the (then) Royal Observatory of the Cape (now SAAO) under prof R H Stoy. He then taught physics in Zimbabwe and South Africa, before returning to the SAAO as Education Officer, where he set up the Observatory's Education and Public Outreach programme and was involved in the development of the SALT Collateral Benefits Plan.
He has been intimately involved with the development of the Natural Sciences for South Africa's new Curriculum 2005. He has also developed extensive resources for astronomy education and has been invited to present these at conferences, both nationally and internationally. He has co-authored several textbooks for C2005, is still very much involved with the SA National Youth Science Olympiad, and is a regular contributor to the media on the popularization and understanding of science in general and astronomy in particular.
He has recently taken early retirement from the SAAO to write and to pursue his interest in physics whilst maintaining a close working relationship with the SAAO.
Further reading: Presidential address
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