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Programme

• 9.30 - 10.30 Registration and coffee
  
  
• 10.30 - 12.30 Manchester physics heritage activities (tour plus videos, etc.)
  
  
• 12.30 - 13.20 Lunch
  
  
• 13:30 — 14:30 Dr Neil Todd, University of Manchester:
  ”Bohr and Moseley in Manchester from a Manchester perspective•.
  
  
• 14:30 — 15:30 Dr Finn Aaserud, Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen:
  ”At home while away: The private background of Bohr‘s scientific creativity, 19101913•.
  
  
• 15:30 — 16:00 Tea
  
  
• 16:00 — 17:00 Professor Emeritus John Heilbron, University of California, Berkeley:
  ”Bohr and Moseley: A Fleeting Collaboration•.
• 18:00 — 19:00 Reception
• 19:00 — 22:00 Dinner in Hulme Hall, where Bohr famously stayed in 1912.

Delegates should assemble in the Coupland I Building on Coupland Street. Registration will be in the Student Common Room. The main meeting will be held in the Pear Lecture Theatre. Attendance at the meeting is free but registration is required. The reception and dinner are optional. The cost for these will be around £55. Payment details to be arranged later. Please book direct by emailing Peter Rowlands, and stating whether or not you wish to attend the reception and dinner.

Confirmation will be sent by email. If the booking is made between 21 and 28 September, the confirmation will be sent on 29 September. Accommodation at the Manchester Business School will be available for around £40 per night plus VAT. There is plenty of room. Contact MBS reception services for all hotel room bookings. Reception services, tel: +44 (0) 161 306 1320, email: reception@mbs.ac.uk

7 August 2014

Neil Todd has recorded the proceedings of some of these lectures which are now live on YouTube, they are bound together in a Playlist "Quantum atom 100 years old" or they can be linked separately:

http://youtu.be/jOoQQ9xVK2U

http://youtu.be/bqRuR9AgW5o

http://youtu.be/EYIhx5YFNg0

Page last updated 29 Aug 2014