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Scottish professor visits Children’s Museum for Weinberg research

Posted at 10:18 am June 24, 2016
By Kay Brookshire Leave a Comment

Sean Johnston and Alvin Weinberg Papers at Children's Museum

Professor Sean Johnston, a professor of science, technology, and social studies from the Dumfries Campus of the University of Glasgow in Scotland, searched through the papers of Alvin Weinberg, former director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as part of a two-year project funded by the British Academy titled “Trusting the Technological Fix.” (Submitted photo)

 

The Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge is well known as a center of play and learning for the young and young at heart. The museum’s lesser-known collections of historic papers recently brought a senior academic historian from Scotland to Oak Ridge for several days of research.

Professor Sean Johnston, a professor of science, technology, and social studies from the Dumfries Campus of the University of Glasgow, searched through the papers of Alvin Weinberg, former director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as part of a two-year project funded by the British Academy titled “Trusting the Technological Fix.”

His visit highlights the value of the collections the museum began gathering in the 1970s to tell the cultural and social history of the area for its Regional Appalachian Center.

“Not only was Weinberg the prominent head of the national laboratory (1955-73), and very much a member of the establishment, but he was somebody who was curious and worried about the wider social implications of nuclear technology,” Johnston said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Community, Education, Front Page News, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Alvin Weinberg, American Museum of Science and Energy, big science, children's museum, Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, Clinton Laboratories, Eugene Wigner, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, Margaret Allard, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORAU, ORNL, ORNL archives, Regional Appalachian Center, Rhonda Bogard, Sean Johnston, selma shapiro, technological fix, Tim Gawne, University of Glasgow, World War II

Nobel Laureate launches Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series at ORNL

Posted at 10:53 pm October 28, 2013
By Oak Ridge National Laboratory Leave a Comment

Albert Fert

Albert Fert

Three more Nobel winners, former Intel chairman among nine confirmed speakers

Four Nobel Laureates are among nine lecturers who will be participating in the new Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series in Science, Technology, and Policy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Albert Fert, recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, opens the series on Nov. 4 at 10 a.m. in the Iran Thomas Auditorium at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source.

“The Wigner lectures aim to invigorate scientific discovery and technological innovation and to initiate productive scientific policy debate,” said Thom Mason, laboratory director. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Science, Top Stories Tagged With: Ada Yonath, Amit Goyal, Arun Majumdar, C.N.R. Rao, Craig Barrett, Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series, Eugene Wigner, Frances Arnold, Graphite Reactor, materials research, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize, Novel Directions for Spintronics: Spin-orbitronics and Magnetic Skyrmions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Peter Grünberg, Science Technology and Policy, Siegfried Hecker, Steven Chu, Thom Mason, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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