Calendar for 2016

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  5 Dec. 2016, 14:15-16:00

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Henrik Zinkernagel, "Aesthetics and the limits of quantum physics."  Physicists have often emphasized the beauty of theories and explanations. Such beauty is typically expressed in terms of simplicity and symmetry in the equations of the theory in question. But there is more to aesthetics in physics than beauty.

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  28 Sept. 2016, 14:15-16:00

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Roberto Lalli, "Building a Scientific Community in the Post-WWII Era: A Network Analysis of the Renaissance of General Relativity."
  
  

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  12 Sept. 2016, 14:15-16:00

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Thomas Kaiserfeld, "European Neutrons from Parasitic Research to Global Strategy:  Realizing Plans for a Transnational European Spallation Source in the Wake of the Cold War."

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  9 June 2016, 14:15-16:00

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Jean-Philippe Martinez, "Quantum Dispute on the Baltic Sea: Fock versus Bohr."

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  23 May 2016, 14:15-16:00

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Jeff Hughes, "'Winston’s Gestapo': Churchill, Bohr and Scientific Secrecy before the Bomb."

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  9 May 2016, 14:15-16:00

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Ray Monk, "J. Robert Oppenheimer: Inside the Centre."

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  28 Apr. 2016, 14:15-16:00

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Dieter Hoffmann, "Friedrich Houtermans (1903-1966): A physicist between Hitler and Stalin."