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SUMMARY:Schrödinger and Heisenberg: Complicated Nominations for the Royal S
 ociety
DESCRIPTION:In 1945, two of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, Erwin Schröd
 inger and Werner Heisenberg, were both nominated by Paul Dirac for election
  to the Royal Society of London. Max Born, Rudolf Peierls, and Francis Simo
 n, who had emigrated from Germany to the UK in the 1930s, had become Britis
 h citizens and Fellows of the Royal Society. They strongly opposed Heisenbe
 rg's nomination, expressing concerns about his activities in the recent war
 . Born supported Schrödinger's nomination but this was opposed by Peierls a
 nd Simon. In time, the opposition became more muted and Schrödinger, to his
  great delight, was elected in 1949. However, it took another six years for
  Heisenberg to be elected following his efforts to rebuild science in West 
 Germany after the war.Through the use of new archival material, David Clary
  will describe these developments and the subtle aspects of electing contro
 versial scientists from overseas to the Royal Society after World War II.\n
 \nProfessor Sir David Clary\n\nSir David Clary is Emeritus Professor of Che
 mistry at the University of Oxford. He was previously President of Magdalen
  College, Oxford and was the first Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Forei
 gn Office. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was knighted in 2016 by 
 Queen Elizabeth II for his services to international science. His recent bo
 oks include Schrödinger in Oxford, The Lost Scientists of World War II, and
  Walter Kohn: From Kindertransport and Internment to DFT and the Nobel Priz
 e.\n\nPlease note: The event is held in English.\n\nYou are cordially invit
 ed:Prof Dr Christina Brandt ML, Prof Dr Dieter Hoffmann ML and Ronja Steffe
 nsky\n\nML = Member of the Leopoldina\n\nLivestream\n\nThe event will be st
 reamed online via Zoom.\n\nLivestream\n\nThe privacy statement of the provi
 der applies.\n\nContact\n\nRonja SteffenskyActing Head of Department Centre
  for Science StudiesE-Mail: lzfw@leopoldina.org
LOCATION:Halle (Saale) and Online
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