Professor Mark Walker från Union College i USA och en världsauktoritet på det nazityska atombombsprojektet har besökt Sverige och Centrum för vetenskapshistoria i maj. Han har nyligen publicerat boken Hitler’s Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima på Cambridge University Press.
Han föreläste i Linnésalen tisdag 20 maj om:
History and Legend: Werner Heisenberg’s 1941 Visit with Niels Bohr in Occupied Copenhagen
In September of 1941, Werner Heisenberg visited Niels Bohr in occupied Denmark and told him that he believed that atomic bombs were feasible and the Germans were working on them. According to the legend of Copenhagen, Heisenberg did this in order to gain Bohr’s help in convincing all physicists to not work on nuclear weapons. This talk will place this visit into the context of Heisenberg’s many foreign trips during the war in order to scrutinize both the legend and actual history of Copenhagen.
Torsdagen 22 maj föreläste han vid institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria i Uppsala om: