2018 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2018

Session

: R1-5 History of Physics (DHP) | Histoire de la physique (DHP)

R1-5

14 Jun 2018, 08:00

Dalhousie University

Conveners

: R1-5 History of Physics (DHP) | Histoire de la physique (DHP)

• Louis Marchildon (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)

1952. Two Hundred Years of Physics at Dalhousie (I)

Prof. Manfred Jericho (Dalhousie University)

14/06/2018, 08:00

History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Dalhousie University was established in 1818 through an act of the Nova Scotia Legislature. Proper function of the College, however, did not commence until 1838 and it ceased again in 1848 when the College reverted to a high school. A reorganization of Dalhousie took place in 1863 when an Act of the Legislature incorporated Dalhousie as a University. In 1877 the Dalhousie board appointed J.J....

2125. John Stuart Foster and Canada's First Cyclotron

Prof. David Hanna

14/06/2018, 08:30

History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

Seventy years ago, the McGill University 100-MeV synchro-cyclotron was under construction. During its almost 40 years of operations, many discoveries were made and a large number of doctoral students were educated. The long-term influence of the cyclotron lab on the landscape of Canadian subatomic physics was considerable and is arguably greater than that of Rutherford, an earlier engine of...

2052. The Role of the Cyclotrons in Photosynthesis Research

Dr Francesco Barletta (Centre matapédien d'études collégiales)

14/06/2018, 08:45

History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

Since the nineteenth century, biochemists and physiologists from all around the world tried to elucitade the pathways of intermediary metabolism of living organisms as for instance, in higher plants:

« One cannot emphasize too strongly that in the plant the synthesis of all organic substances must revert to the initial mechanism involved in the synthesis of carbohydrates, so that the...