‘A MANY-SIDED CRYSTAL’: THE QUAKER PHYSICIST & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON (1851–1916)

 

A Workshop to Mark the Centenary of his Death

 

to be held on Friday, 16 September 2016

 

at the Westminster Quaker Meeting House,

52 St. Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4EA.*

 

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PROGRAMME

 

Registration is now open here

 

10.00-10.30         Arrival, registration and coffee

 

10.30-11.15         Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds), “Silvanus Phillips Thompson: Polymath, Authority and Critic”

 

11.15-12.00         Matt Stanley (New York University), “The Quaker Silvanus Thompson, Scientist and ‘Sincere Friend’”

 

12.00-12.30         Mat Paskins (University of Aberystwyth), “Silvanus Thompson’s Working Worlds”

 

Lunch

 

1.30-2.00             Steve Pumfrey (University of Lancaster), “Thompson on Gilbert’s De Magnete”

 

2.00-2.30             Geoffrey Cantor (University of Leeds & UCL), “Thompson, Biographer”

 

2.30-3.00             Annie Jamieson (National Media Museum), “There is light that our eyes will never see”: Silvanus Thompson and the Photography of the Invisible”

                                Tea

 

3.30-4.00             Stathis Arapostathis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), “Thompson’s Controversies over Patents”

 

4.00-4.30             Anne Barrett (Imperial College, London) & Anne Locker (Institution of Engineering & Technology), “The Thompson Archives”

 

4.30-5.00             Round table discussion on Thompson’s historical significance and directions for future research.  

                                 

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To register for the workshop, visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silvanus-phillips-thompson-a-many-sided-crystal-tickets-26064943949

 

The charge for the day is £25 (£10 for AfL members), including morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea. Please register before 13 September.

 

* The Westminster Quaker Meeting House is very close to Leicester Square underground station (which is served by the Piccadilly and Northern Lines). Leave the station by exit 1, turn left and left again at the third passageway (Cecil Court). The passageway leads to St. Martin’s Lane almost opposite the Meeting House. USE THE SIDE ENTRANCE, which is on Hop Court (slightly to the right, facing you, between the Côte Brasserie and the GymBox). That entrance will be staffed from 10.00 to 10.30 and instructions left outside for late arrivals. If disabled access is required, please contact the organisers in advance through the workshop website:

 

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