Meeting on the History of Astrochemistry
Burlington House, Thursday 16 October 2025
10.10: Coffee and tea
Session One (chair: John Nicholson)
10.30 Welcome from John Nicholson, Chair of the Historical Group
10.35 Ileana Chinnici, Early History of Astronomical Spectroscopy
11.05 Helge Kragh, “Element Abundances in the Stars and Beyond, ca. 1925-1940” (remotely)
11.35 Simon Mitton, “Seven Steps to Element Synthesis: B2FH”
12.05 Jonathan Hare, “Carbon Astrochemistry and the Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene”
12.35 Lunch (not provided for audience)
Session Two (chair: Jeremy Shears)
2.00 John Black, “Alexander Dalgarno and the Growth of Astrochemistry"
2.30 Jonathan Rawlings, “First Detection of Molecules in Space”
3.00 Tea and coffee
Session Three (chair: Peter Morris)
3.30 Mike Edmunds, "A History of the Chemical Analysis of Extragalactic Systems"
4.10 David Carty, “Laboratory Astrochemistry: 30 Years of Gas-Phase 91AV in the Extremes of Cold and Dark”
4.40 Closing remarks by Peter Morris
4.50 Meeting ends
Please register for this meeting by emailing the Secretary of the Historical Group, Mike Leggett, at leggett189@btinternet.com.
