Crossing the Disciplinary Boundaries of Physics (Bohr-100 Centennial Celebrations)

Session

Session 6

Aug 8, 2023, 11:15 AM

Novo Nordisk Fonden

30. Hevesy – and the making of early nuclear medicine in Copenhagen

Liselotte Højgaard (University of Copenhagen)

8/8/23, 11:15 AM

George de Hevesy (1885-1966), Hungarian-born chemist and Nobel laureate, developed the use of radioactive indicators in 1913 while working in Rutherford’s lab in Manchester, where he also met Niels Bohr. After World War I, Hevesy came to Copenhagen to work at Bohr’s Institute, where he and the Dutch physicist Dirk Coster discovered element 72 of the periodic table, hafnium. In the 1920s,...

27. Physics and/or chemistry? The entangled situation of the Nobel Prizes 1903

Karl Grandin (Stockholm)

8/8/23, 11:40 AM

Marie Curie was awarded half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics together with her husband Pierre Curie “in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”. Becquerel was awarded half of the prize “in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous...

31. A Travelling Technology: Radiocarbon dating between nuclear physics and climate science

Dania Achermann (Wuppertal and Bern)

8/8/23, 12:05 PM

The history of post-war climate science has been written with a strong focus on the role of global geopolitics and global climate models. In this talk, I will broaden this perspective with a smaller scale approach and a different technology. Drawing on the history of a specific radiocarbon dating laboratory, I show, on the one hand, how also local conditions influenced global climate science...

32. Discussion

8/8/23, 12:30 PM