The IGRS Ireland Branch presents their Summer Lecture Tuesday, 18th June, from 18:45, Helen Roe Theatre at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
The speaker at this year’s Ireland Branch Summer Lecture will be longtime IGRS Member Niall McDevitt. He will talk about scientist Erwin Schrödinger’s time in Clontarf during World War II.
Schrödinger (1887-1961), a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist, is noted for his work in the field of quantum theory. Having fled Nazi occupied Austria in 1938, he received an invitation from An Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, to take up residence in Ireland and to assist in establishing an Institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin. He, and his wife Annemarie (Anny), settled in the Dublin suburb of Clontarf in 1940, They remained there for the next seventeen years. Although retaining his Austrian citizenship, he nevertheless became a naturalized Irish citizen in 1948.
The event will be held on the evening of Tuesday, 18th June, at the Helen Roe Theatre at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland from 18:45.
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