SHAC Autumn Meeting
Air, Alchemy, Elements and Electrons
Saturday 12 November, 2016
Location: Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London
9.30: Registration and Coffee
10.00: John Christie (Oxford): ‘Joseph Priestley and the Politics of Nitrous Air Eudiometry’
10.30: Tobias Schoenwitz (Cambridge): ‘Science or Art? Pharmacy in 19thC England and Austria’
11.00: Steven Turner (Washington DC): ‘Spectacle and Vision in 19thC English Chemistry’
11.30: William Brock: ‘The Fortunes of Robert Hunter, a Younger Rival of Christopher Ingold’
12.00: Simon Werrett (UCL): ‘Astonishing Transformations’
12.30: AGM and Presentation of Oxford Part II Chemistry Prize
13.00: Lunch – a sandwich lunch will be provided
13.45: Edwin Rose (Cambridge): Late 18thC Reception of Joseph Black’s Discovery of Fixed Air’
14.10: Steven Irish (Cambridge): ‘Calamines and Crystallography: Chemical Combination in the Work of James Smithson’
14.35: Karoliina Pulkkinen (Cambridge): ‘What Classification of Chemical Elements Can Teach Us on Epistemic Values’
15.00: Alexandra Marraccini (Oxford): ‘Elephant-Hawk Moths in the Tender Garden. Scientific Knowledge and Effect in a Late 16thC Alchemical Formula Book’
15.25: Michael Jewess: ‘History of Science Sites: Beware the Great London Street Re-naming’
15.50: Tea
16.20: Edward Werner Cook (New York): ‘August Wilhelm Hofmann in London’
16.45: Will Scott (Cambridge): ‘The Electron in Early 20thC Organic Chemistry’
17.10: Concluding Remarks – meeting ends at 17.30
SHAC Spring Meeting
High Pressure in the Interwar Period
Thursday 11 February 2016
Location: Dana Research Centre and Library, 165 Queens Gate, London SW7 5HD
13.00 Registration and coffee
13.25 Peter Reed, “The Hesitant Emergence of Chemical Engineering and the Chemical Engineer in Britain, 1909–1930”
13.55 Thijs Michels, “Antonius Michels, His High Pressure Research and the Origins of Polyethylene”
14.25 Robert Bud, “Oiling the Wheels of Coal: High Pressure and the Benefits of Science”
14:55 Tea
15.15 Alan Dronsfield, “The Ammonia Problem and its Solution”
15.45 Peter Morris, “A Different Kind of High Pressure Chemistry: The Birth of Reppe Chemistry”
16.15 Ernst Homburg, “From Bergius to Dubbs: Unexpected Links between Coal and Oil”
16.45 Presentation of the Morris Award to Tony Travis
17.00 The Morris Award Lecture, by Tony Travis: “Nitrogen Capture: The Emergence of a Global Industry, 1920-1935”
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