Lise Meitner Symposium
https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/events/lise-meitner/
Monday, 28 January 2019
09:30 – 17:30
Wolfson Hall, Churchill College
The Churchill Archives Centre is proud to hold the scientific papers
and personal correspondence of Lise Meitner (1878-1968), who,
according to the inscription on her gravestone, was a physicist who
never lost her humanity.
In honour of Meitner, who was the second woman with a doctorate in
physics in Vienna and the first female professor of physics in
Germany, the Archives Centre is holding a one-day symposium in
January. The symposium will feature three panels that will explore
Meitner’s life and work as well as her scientific achievements and
her political legacy.
Panellists include Dr Graham Farmelo, David Rennert, Professor Ruth
Lewin Sime, Dr Annette Vogt, Professor Dame Athene Donald, Georgina
Ferry, Professor Valerie Gibson, Professor Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke,
Tanja Traxler, Dr Helen Curry, Professor Sir Roy Calne, Stefan
Frankenberger and Sandra Schüddekopf.
The symposium will be held in the Wolfson Hall, Churchill College,
Cambridge CB3 0DS.
Admission is free. For more information and to book a place, see: https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/events/lise-meitner/
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Helen Anne Curry
Peter Lipton Senior Lecturer
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RH
01223 335748
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