A trip through the groves of academe, recalling the towering achievements of the greatest figures to have made their mark at Manchester University – Wittgenstein, Weizmann, Rutherford, Turing – finishing at the re-opened home of Elizabeth Gaskell.
One minute you’re devising the Theory of Relativity, the next you’re lecturing at Manchester University – in German!
One minute you’re teaching chemistry at Manchester University. The next you’re president of Israel
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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