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Liverpool Medical History Society
and
the Department of Physics
WAR AND PEACE
Conference on the life and work of Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat, FRS,
Nobel Peace Laureate
Liverpool Medical Institution, 114 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool
Friday, 20 October 2006
PROGRAMME
9.30 am Registration and refreshments
10.00 am Welcome and Introduction
Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Jon Saunders (University of Liverpool), and Professor Michael Bone (Chairman, Liverpool Medical History Society)
Chairman of the Morning Session : Professor John Dainton, FRS (Sir James Chadwick Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Liverpool, and Director of the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington)
Mrs Diana Preston
Before the Fall -Out - Joseph Rotblat, James Chadwick and the Road to Los Alamos
Mrs Sally Milne
Working with a Visionary Thinker
11.15 am COFFEE / TEA
11. 45 am Dr John Curry
Sir Joseph before and after the Bomb
Mr Bryce Halliday
Professor Rotblat and the Atom Train
12.45 pm LUNCH
1.45 pm Chairman of the first part of the Afternoon Session : Professor Peter Williams (Director of Physics, Christie Hospital NHS Trust, Withington, Manchester), who will deliver an initial short introduction on the development of medical physics.
Professor Kit Hill
Joseph Rotblat : Professor of Physics at Bart's Hospital Medical School, 1949 - 1973
Dr Philip Mayles
Radiation : Cause of Cancer or Cancer Cure
3.00 pm COFFEE / TEA
Chairman of the last Session : Professor Michael Bone
3.30 pm Dr Jack Harris, MBE ,FRS, FRAEng
Sir Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Organisation
Bruce Kent
Sir Joseph Rotblat : From Nuclear Disarmament to the Abolition of War
4.30 pm Simon Coleman
The Archival Record of a Unique Scientist : Making it Accessible to the World
5.00 pm Close of the conference
Film and sound recordings of Sir Joseph Rotblat
During the lunch break and coffee / tea breaks, an opportunity will be provided for delegates to view extracts from film of Sir Joseph Rotblat and to listen to extracts from recordings he made, and also to view a small exhibition of photographs and records relating to Sir Joseph.
Conference volume
At the time of registration, conference delegates will be given a copy of a quality, hard back volume. Besides texts of papers delivered at the conference, the volume will include contributions from those who knew and worked with Sir Joseph or have researched his life and career.
Those who might wish to submit their recollections of Sir Joseph for possible inclusion in the conference volume are asked to contact Adrian Allan (Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool, PO Box 123, Liverpool, L69 3DA; tel. 0151 794 2093 ; email : [log in to unmask]) not later than 31 July.
Notes on the speakers
Diana Preston is an historian and author of Before the Fallout, From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (Doubleday 2005, Corgi, 2006) which won the Los Angeles Times 2005 Prize for Science and Technology and was long-listed for the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Her previous books include A Pirate of Exquisite Mind, a biography of buccaneer scientist William Dampier, the first Englishman to reach Australia. She graduated MA with honours in Modern History from St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Mrs Sally Milne graduated BA with Honours in History from the University of Exeter. She is Executive Secretary to the London Office of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Mrs Milne was Personal Assistant to Sir Joseph Rotblat.
Dr John Curry graduated BSc with Honours in Physics in 1941 and PhD in Nuclear Physics in 1949 at the University of Liverpool. After war service, 1941 - 45, Dr Curry was a DSIR-funded member of the University's staff, teaching and researching proton energy spread under Sir James Chadwick, 1946 - 48, before joining BICC as Telecommunications Research Manager in 1949.
Mr Bryce Halliday served as Technical Assistant for the 'Atom Train' project in the Department of Physics, University of Liverpool.
Professor Peter Williams is Director of Physics at the Christie Hospital, Withington, Manchester. He has been involved in an updating of the history of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and its antecedents. He chaired the Wellcome History of Medicine witness statement meeting on medical physics held last year.
Professor C R (Kit) Hill is Emeritus Professor of Physics as Applied to Medicine, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital.
Dr Philip Mayles is Head of Physics, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Bebington, Wirral. He trained as a medical physicist under Sir Joseph Rotblat at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College.
Dr Jack Harris is Deputy Chairman of British Pugwash and Editor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. He worked for 35 years in the civil nuclear industry and for his studies of nuclear fuel performance was awarded the Esso Gold Medal for Energy Conservation by the Royal Society.
Bruce Kent was Catholic Chaplain to the University of London, 1966 - 74; Secretary and then Chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1980 - 90, and now Vice-President ; President of the International Peace Bureau, 1985 - 92; and Co-founder with Sir Joseph Rotblat in 2001 of the Movement for the Abolition of War.
Simon Coleman (The National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists) is cataloguing the archives of Sir Joseph Rotblat for the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sponsorship
Liverpool Medical History Society and the Department of Physics gratefully acknowledge the generous grant in support of the conference made by The Friends of the University of Liverpool.
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