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The Portico

57 Mosley Street
M2 3HY

Please note that steep entrance steps prevent full wheelchair access.
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Manchester Greats: John Dalton

Tue 30 Oct 2012 6.30pm - 9pm

Although recognised as a son of Manchester John Dalton was a Cumbrian man who came to Manchester to teach. Discover the deeper story of the man who changed the whole face of chemistry when he proposed his Atomic Theory...

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Manchester greats: Ernest Rutherford

Thu 1 Nov 2012 6.30pm - 9pm

Find out more about the ‘father of nuclear physics’ and what he discovered within the vast universe inside the atom in this talk with physicist Peter Ford...

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Manchester greats: Alan Turing

Sun 4 Nov 2012 2pm - 4.30pm

Who was Alan Turing? Was he really the unworldly boffin who invented the computer, won the war, decoded the sunflower's patterns and died a homosexual martyr?