A discussion on Sir Oliver Lodge will be held at the Royal Institution on Wednesday 1 February at 7 pm. Lodge was a significant figure in the early history of the SPR.
"Oliver Lodge was a pioneering physicist of the 20th Century, who made key breakthroughs in the development of radio. However,in an age obsessed with communing with the dead sons of the First World War, Lodge, like his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, was also a committed spiritualist at the forefront of a scientific hunt for a spirit world. Samira Ahmed will host a panel of experts to discuss this fascinating, contradictory figure and his influence."
Speakers are Samira Ahmed, Christine Ferguson, David Hendy and James Mussell.
Details can be found on the Royal Institution website:
http://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2017/february/public-spirits-in-the-ether