Talks & events

Future

Past

    • Monday 18 October 2021, Life, Hope and Science, Three Journeys in Research, Panel discussion, Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology at Cold Spring Harbor, New York (via Zoom).
    • Monday 24 May 2021, The first crystallography PhDs: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and Max Perutz in the 1930s. University of Virginia (via Zoom).
    • Thursday 18 March 2021, From diamonds to DNA, Todmorden U3A, 1.45 pm (via Zoom).
    • Tuesday 16 March 2021, Leo and the users, Royal Society (via Zoom).
    • Wednesday 18 November 2020, Minerals, molecules and the Nobel prize, Oxford University Museum of Natural History (via Webinarjam).
    • Monday 24 February 2020, No lone heroes: is there a place for life stories in the history of science? Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Seminar, Oxford University, Faculty of History, George St, Oxford, 4.00 pm.
    • Tuesday 21 January 2020, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, South Oxford WI, South Oxford Community Centre, 8 pm.
    • Thursday 31 October 2019, The why and how of (scientific) biography, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education, 5.30 pm.
    • Friday 30 August 2019, Of tea, cakes and computers: LEO the Lyons Electronic Office. Wuthering Bytes Festival, Hebden Bridge.
    • Thursday 23 May 2019, Keynote speech, Max Perutz Day, Max F Perutz Laboratories, Vienna.
    • Wednesday 30 January 2019 Ada Lovelace’s letters, Shipston & District Literary Society at the White Bear, Shipston-on-Stour.
    • Monday 28 January 2019 Panellist, Lise Meitner symposium, Churchill College Cambridge.
    • Thursday 12 April 2018, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ebrington WI, Ebrington Village Hall, GL55 6NB 7 pm.
    • Friday 23 March 2018, ‘A better world is possible’, conversation with Lord Sainsbury for the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, Bodleian Library Divinity School, 4.00 pm
    • Thursday 15 March 2018, ‘Diamonds to DNA: the women who revealed the hidden structures of nature’, lecture for the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Royal Northern College of Music, 7.00 pm.
    • Monday 11 December 2017 Showing of Hidden Glory with Q & A for the Oxford Medical Lecture Club
    • Tuesday 10 October 2017 Showing of Hidden Glory with Q & A for Wellesbourne U3 A, 2 pm.
    • Saturday 25 March 2017 ‘Dorothy Hodgkin: choices and chances on the way to a Nobel prize’, contribution to a celebration of the lives of Rosalind Franklin and Dorothy Hodgkin at Newnham College, Cambridge.
    • Thursday 9 March 2017 Crystals, careers and penicillin: talk and round table discussion at the Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford.
    • Monday 27 February 2017 Talk on Dorothy Hodgkin for OxFest.
    • Tuesday 25 October 2016 Filmed showing of Hidden Glory with Q&A for Shipston on Stour U3A at Townsend Hall, Shipston on Stour.
    • Tuesday 21 June 2016 ‘Broadcasting the letters of Dorothy Hodgkin and Ada Lovelace’, contribution to panel discussion as part of one-day conference Speaking in Absence, Bodleian Library and Wolfson College, Oxford.
    • 8 December 2015 ‘If my wave can follow and touch yours…’: Broadcasting the letters of Ada Lovelace, contribution to Texts and Contexts: The cultural legacies of Ada Lovelace, workshop at the Bodleian Library.
    • Wednesday 19 November 2014,  ‘Choices and Chances: Dorothy Hodgkin’s route to the Nobel Prize’, talk to the Oxford University Scientific Society.
    • Tuesday 2 December 2014,  ‘Taming the Elements: Dorothy Hodgkin, Patterns and the Nobel Prize’, talk at the Ulster Museum, Belfast.
    • Wednesday 29 October 2014,  filmed showing of Hidden Glory with Q&A as part of Somerville College’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of Dorothy Hodgkin’s Nobel Prize
    • Tuesday 21 October 2014,  ‘From Code-breaking to Cakemaking’, talk on the LEO computer at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
    • Saturday 20 September 2014, filmed showing of Hidden Glory with Q&A as part of the Oxford Alumni Weekend, Mathematics Institute, Oxford.