The Conference
From 26–30 July 2027, the Niels Bohr Archive will host the Sixth International Conference on the History of Quantum Physics (HQ-6). This conference is the sixth in a series initiated by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. Previous conferences took place in Berlin (2007 and 2010), Utrecht (2008), Donostia/San Sebastián (2015), and Salvador da Bahia (2025). These meetings have helped reinvigorate the community of quantum historians. They have contributed to a surge of scholarship on the history of quantum physics as well as historical narratives that explore scientific practices and concepts within their rich social, cultural, and political contexts.
The Host
The Niels Bohr Archive (NBA) is an independent institution overseen be the University of Copenhagen with its own Board of Directors. It holds extensive archival material documenting the life and work of Niels Bohr and the history of physics in the twentieth century. It has established itself as one of the central institutions worldwide for documenting and researching the history of modern physics and its social and philosophical implications.
The Venue
The conference will be held in the venerable Auditorium A in the historic Niels Bohr Institute at Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Organizing Committee
Flavio Del Santo
Christian Joas
Jinyan Liu
Jean-Philippe Martinez
Daniela Monaldi
Elena Schaa
Climério Silva Neto
Anja Skaar Jacobsen
The Advisory Committee
Arianna Borrelli
Elise Crull
Olival Freire Jr.
Johannes-Geert Hagmann
Thiago Hartz
Margriet van der Heijden
Danian Hu
Alexei Kojvenikov
Helge Kragh
Adriana Minor
Jaume Navarro
Jürgen Renn
Ana Simões
Richard Staley
Practical Information
A call for abstracts will be issued in September of 2026, with submissions due by 30 November 2026. Authors of accepted contributions will be notified by late December 2026.
Registration will open in 2027.
Subject to available funds, the conference plans to offer a limited number of partial travel grants and/or registration fee waivers, with priority given to early‑career speakers.