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The Life and Legacy of Sir John Douglas Cockcroft

19 September 2014, 9:30am

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The Life and Legacy of Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, FRS

The Old Divinity School Conference Centre, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK

Thursday, 18 September 2014 —The Life (£40 to attend)

Friday, 19 September, 2014 —The Legacy (Free of charge)

Download the programme here.

This event has been organised by the Cockroft family, and is hosted by the Master and Fellows of St John's College Cambridge.

Discussions will centre around the future of nuclear power and the benefits of nuclear medicine and accelerator science. In many ways, they are all related, especially in respect of the public’s perception of the risk to human life from radiation which will be the topic of Professor Wade Alison’s talk. He is very much convinced that the dangers are significantly overplayed and that, in consequence, the human race is being saddled with unnecessary costs and being denied the benefits of nuclear power.

Confirmed speakers include:

Professor Steve Myers FREng (recently CERN Director of Accelerators and Technology). He has led projects at CERN concerned with accelerators for more than 40 years culminating in his position as Director of Accelerators. He is now embarking on a major role based at CERN as European coordinator of accelerator technology for medical applications.

Professor John Dainton FRS holds the Sir James Chadwick Chair of Physics, University of Liverpool. His career as an experimental particle physicist has included experiments at CERN Geneva and DESY Hamburg concerned with the interactions of matter with leptons and photons at the highest interaction energies possible. He founded the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology at Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire.

Professor Dr Helmut Dosch is Chair of the DESY Board of Directors. Before joining DESY, the solid-state physicist Helmut Dosch was director of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart. He earned international recognition for his research into solid interfaces and nanomaterials using synchrotron radiation. He has been Chair of the DESY Board of Directors since March 2009.

Professor Steven Cowley is CEO of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
and Head of EURATOM/CCFE Fusion Association.

Professor Wade Allison MA DPhil is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Oxford. He is concerned that, by ignoring the resilience of life to ionising radiation and appeasing public concern about safety, the future of nuclear power in democratic countries is being needlessly put at risk, just when it is most urgently needed. He has written Radiation and Reason www.radiationandreason.com advocating a clearer basis for nuclear safety and better public education.

Professor Andrew H. Sherry FREng is the Director, Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of Manchester.

Agenda and registration

Download the programme here.

Booking details can be found here.

For further information, please email Christopher Cockroft: chris@cockcroft.org.uk