Programme for the history of science conference
One hundred years of the Bohr atom
Tuesday 11 to Friday 14 June 2013
Tuesday 11 June
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16:00-17:30 |
J.L. Heilbron, emeritus professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley |
“My courage is ablaze so wildly”: Niels Bohr en route to his quantum atom |
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19:00 |
Registration and reception for speakers, with tapas |
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Wednesday 12 June
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8:30 |
Registration (continued) |
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9:00 |
Kirsten Hastrup, President of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters |
Welcome |
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9:15 |
Finn Aaserud, Niels Bohr Archive, Denmark |
Introduction and practical matters |
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Session 1: Bohr and the atom (chair, Finn Aaserud) |
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9:30 |
Helge Kragh, University of Aarhus, Denmark |
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10:00 |
Jaume Navarro, University of the Basque Country, Spain |
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10:30 |
Michael Eckert, Deutsches Museum, Germany |
Extending Bohr: Sommerfelds’s early atomic theory, 1913—1916 |
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11:00 |
Coffee |
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11:30 |
Michiyo Nakane, Kawasaki, Japan |
Bohr’s introduction to action-angle variables in a 1918 paper |
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12:00 |
Robert Rynasiewicz, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. |
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12:30 |
Martin Jähnert, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
The Correspondence Principle in Practice: Its Spread and Use in the Old Quantum Theory |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 2: Bohr, the atom and other physics (chair, Helge Kragh) |
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14:00 |
Anthony Duncan, University of Pittsburgh and Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota, U.S.A. |
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14:30 |
Luis Boya, University of Zaragoza, Spain |
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15:00 |
Enric Canals and Blai Pie Valls, University of Barcelona, Spain |
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15:30 |
Coffee |
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16:00 |
Michael Nauenberg, University of California, Santa Cruz |
What happened to the Bohr-Sommerfeld elliptic orbits in Schrödinger’s wave mechanics? |
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16:30 |
Jeroen van Dongen, Utrecht University, Holland |
Communicating the Heisenberg Relations: Niels Bohr and the forgotten Einstein—Rupp Experiments |
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17:00 |
Brigitte van Tiggelen, Lovain Catholic University, Belgium, and Annette Lykknes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
Ida Noddack and the fission proposal: The actor’s perspective |
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17:30 |
End of session |
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17:45-19:30 |
Planning meeting for speakers, with smørrebrød |
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Thursday 13 June
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Session 3: Philosophical and contemporary aspects (chair, Jeroen van Dongen) |
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9:00 |
Giora Hon, University of Haifa, Israel, and Bernard R. Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. |
Constitution, structure, system, and model: Imagining the atom – an early twentieth century story |
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9:30 |
Theodore Arabatzis and Despina Ioannidou, University of Athens, Greece |
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10:00 |
Henrik Zinkernagel, University of Granada, Spain |
Are we living in a quantum world? Bohr and quantum fundamentalism |
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10:30 |
Coffee |
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11:00 |
N.D. Hari Dass, Chennai Mathematical Institute; CQIQC, IISc, India |
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11:30 |
Shan Gao, University of Sydney, Australia and Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
How do electrons move in atoms? — From the Bohr model to quantum mechanics |
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12:00 |
Thiago Hartz and Olival Freire, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil |
Uses and appropriations of Niels Bohr’s ideas about quantum field measurements, 1935—1965 |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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Session 4: National and institutional aspects (chair, Henrik Zinkernagel) |
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14:00 |
Shaul Katzir, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
Manchester at war: Rutherford, Bohr, submarine detection and atomic spectra |
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14:30 |
Gábor Palló, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary |
The Bohr model’s early reception in Hungary: Hevesy and Bohr |
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15:00 |
Peter Robertson, University of Melbourne, Australia |
Birthplace of a new physics — the early history of the Niels Bohr Institute |
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15:30 |
Coffee |
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16:00 |
Karl Grandin, Royal Academy of Science, Sweden |
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16:30 |
Henrik Knudsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark |
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17:00 |
End of session |
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19:00 |
Conference dinner for speakers in Restaurant Nimb Terrasse, Tivoli Gardens |
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Friday 14 June
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Session 5: Other aspects (chair, Henrik Knudsen) |
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9:00 |
Finn Aaserud, Niels Bohr Archive, Denmark |
Love and physics: Margrethe Nørlund and Niels Bohr’s scientific creativity, 1910—1913 |
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9:30 |
Ernst Peter Fischer, Heidelberg, Germany |
A romantic understanding of atoms: Bohr’s success in a new perspective |
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10:00 |
Dieter Hoffmann, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Germany |
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10:30 |
Coffee |
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11:00 |
Arne Schirrmacher, Humboldt University, Germany |
Models at an exhibition: The planetary atom on display in Europe and what this meant for science |
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11:30 |
Kristian H. Nielsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark |
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12:00 |
Conclusion |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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