Nuclear Astrophysics: an historical overview

by Prof. Michael Wiescher (Notre Dame University)

Wednesday 24 Jun 2026, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

Ex-ISEF/Building-Main Lecture Hall (GSSI)

This talk will provide a historical analysis of the impact of academic nuclear physics in the 1930s on the US Manhattan Project from 1942 to 1945 and how it influenced the nuclear test program 1945-1970.The talk will also discuss the subsequent impact of the Manhattan Project towards the  emergence of the Big Bang theory and the development of the field of Heavy Ion Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics. It will also present the interpretation of nuclear reaction processes in stars and explosive stellar environments, which still shapes our understanding and interpretation of stellar nucleosynthesis today.

 

Zoom link:

 

https://gssi-it.zoom.us/j/83386782481?pwd=gg0pSaulEWlUGg2nq0bDcqrVsjojuq.1 

 

Meeting ID: 833 8678 2481

Password: 446669