Calendar

• 2 Oct. 2017, 14:00-18:00

  Celebration marking Finn Aaserud’s and Felicity Pors’s retirements from the Niels Bohr Archive (NBA)

  Celebration on the occasion of Finn Aaserud’s retirement as Director of NBA after more than 28 years of service, as well as of Felicity Pors’s retirement as Archivist after close to 31 years.

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  16 June 2017, 11:15-13:00

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Ronald E. Doel, “Telling Stories about Cold War Greenland: The Ultimate Triumph of the Environmental Sciences”

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  12 June 2017, 14:15-16:00

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Matthias Heymann, "Cultures of Prediction: Towards an Understanding of the Hegemony of Climate Models"

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  23 May 2017, 14:15-16:00

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Melanie Mueller, "Advocacy and archival value in scientific institutions"

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  19 Apr. 2017, 13:15

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Cathryn Carson, "Computation and the Sciences: Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Vector of Change"

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  2 Mar. 2017, 14:15

  NBA History of Science Seminar

  Jens Tommerup, "Building of concrete models as intellectual training: Niels Bohr and the Gammelholm School"

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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."