This was a joint meeting of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, the Historical Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Chemistry Department of the University of Cambridge
Morning: 9.45am-1pm
Introduction
Professor Jeremy Sanders, Head of Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Vigani and the Beginnings of Cambridge Chemistry
Dr Simon Schaffer, Reader, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Richard Watson: Gaiters and Gunpowder
Professor Colin Russell, Emeritus Professor of History of Science, Open University
Chemistry and the Promotion of Experiment in the 18th Century
Dr Larry Stewart, Head of Department of History, University of Saskatchewan
Smithson Tennant, the Innovative 8th Professor of Chemistry
Professor Mel Usselman, Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario
Afternoon: 2pm-6pm
Coming and Going: the Erratic Career of James Cumming
Professor Bill Brock, Visiting Professor, Centre for History and Cultural Studies of Science, University of Kent
Chemistry at Cambridge under George Downing Liveing
Dr John Shorter, Reader Emeritus in History of Chemistry, University of Hull
Cambridge Chemistry at War
Professor Arnold Thackray, President, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia
Modernisation: Lord Todd's Tenure of the 1702 Chair
Sir James Baddiley, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Microbiology, University of Newcastle and
Dr Dan Brown, Emeritus Reader, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Synthesis and Biosynthesis at Cambridge: Professors Ralph Raphael and Alan Battersby
Professor Robert Ramage, Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
Evening, 6pm-7.30pm
Reception at the Whipple Museum
Morning: 10am-12.30pm
Introduction
Professor Jeremy Sanders, Head of Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
From Bowling Green to Lens Field
Dr Peter Wothers, Teaching Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Chemistry in a Changing World
Professor Steve Ley, BP 1702 Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Light Buffet Lunch
Afternoon: 2.30pm-5pm
Dr Alfred Bader, BP, ICI, Johnson Matthey, Royal Society of Chemistry