Programme of Events

This year is the 80th anniversary of the ‘splitting of the atom’ by Ernest Walton and John Cockcroft on 14th April 1932. to celebrate this momentous event, DCU are hosting a packed day of talks and physics inspired entertainment:

• Prof Brian Cathcart, Kingston University, London, author of ‘The Fly in the Cathedral – how a small group of Cambridge scientists won the race to split the atom’, reflecting on how the news spread from the Cambridge laboratories at the time;
• Prof Philip Walton, professor emeritus of physics, NUI Galway, speaking about his father’s winning the Nobel Prize for Physics (1951);
• Prof Dermot Diamond, DCU, exploring Flann O’Brien’s satirical treatments of the physics of his time;
• Songs with a physics theme composed by mathematician‐and‐musician Tom Lehrer and performed by Charles Delap (vocals) and Fiachra Trench (piano).

The event starts at 4pm and you need to register to attend.