Early Adventures in Radioactivity
Neil Dickinson
- Regions:
- Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Essex, Hertfordshire
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Paid: ca. £60 plus travel depending on distance
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 2nd September 2024
- Tagged:
- Discovery | Famous Scientists | Radioactivity
Hiroshima*, Nagasaki, Chernobyl - names that make the blood run cold, but 130 years ago radioactivity was completely unknown. My goodness, how things have moved on since then, and it all started so innocently. This illustrated talk looks at the very early history and discoveries in nuclear science and how the speaker’s parents’ bedroom dressing table held a surprise! Length of talk 45 to 50 minutes, but can be adapted to suit.
*Did you know Hiroshima translates from Japanese as “Broad Island”? It doesn’t seem to sound so chilling like that does it?
Views: 1221 | Enquiries: 2About Neil Dickinson
My working life was spent as an industrial chemist and I have enjoyed a variety of other interests yet I’ve always been particularly fascinated by the ingenuity and brilliance of humans over history to develop resources and shape them to our own needs, be it for great good or to terrible ends, and sometimes for both, as accepted wisdom and circumstances have often changed over time. I present several illustrated talks on various topics with, when appropriate, a degree of humour attached. I always look forward to questions from my audience at the end of the talks which can reveal some fascinating further details and discussion.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Neil Dickinson
- Arsenic’s Toxic Legacy: People, Places, Pests and Peppermints
- A Kiwi in Cambridge: Lord Rutherford, the Father of Nuclear Physics
- Coming Back To Butterflies
- The Road to Novichok: Nerve Agents - the deadliest substances known
- Japan: the last Shogun to the present Emperor
- Japanese Gardens: What, Why and How?
- Mercury: The Mysterious Mobile Metal
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