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Meyerhof, Otto, 1884-1951. Papers, 1900-1980.

Title: Papers, 1900-1980.

This small but important collection documents a range of professional and personal activities of Otto Meyerhof. Letters represent the bulk of the collection and these are divided by topic. Letters from Otto Meyerhof to his son, Gottfried (George Geoffrey), written in English and German, are rich in the details of daily life including his professional interests as well as his travels through Europe as he fled Nazism. The correspondence with American and European scientist overlap somewhat and cover a range of issues. There is information and advice on scientific experiments as well as letters of recommendation for colleagues escaping Germany during World War II. Correspondents include E. Elisabeth Blencke, F.L. Breusch, Carl F. Cori, H.J. Deuticke, Marcel Dubuisson, Encyclopaedia Hebraica, Hermann O.L. Fischer, L. Genevois, Walter Guttmann, A. Szent Gyorgyi, Otto Hahn, A.V. Hill, W. Kiessling, Richard Kuhn, Julius Kraft, M.v. Laue, Rudolph Landenburg, Fritz A. Lippman, Herman Mark, Karl Mechlenberg, Gottfried Meyerhof, A.v. Muralt, David Nachmansohn, Hans Nachod, Severo Ochoa, Paul Ohlmeyer, George Sarton, Walter Schulz, Harlow Shapely, R. Siebeck, F.W. Spemann, Arthur Vandyk, George Wald, Otto Warburg, Hans Weber, and D. Wright Wilson. There is a small group of professional papers including information on the Emergency Society of German Scholars in Exile, a listing of his experiments from 1913 to 1938, articles and reprints, and Metabolism and Function, a collection of essays dedicated to Meyerhof in 1950. Personal items such as poetry, photographs, memorials, clippings, and his final diary finish out the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1 Cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597537 View

Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, K-O, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, K-O, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79239321 View

Meissner, Walther, 1882-1974. Oral history interview with Walther Meissner, 1963 February 8.

Title: Oral history interview with Walther Meissner, 1963 February 8.

This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with ca. 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Albert Einstein, Gustave-Robert Kirchhoff, Max Theodor Felix von Laue, Walther Nernst, Max Planck, Johannes Stark; Physikalische-Technische Reichsanstalt (Berlin), Stevens Institute, Universität Berlin, Universität Göttingen.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 11 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83226861 View

Waly, Adnan. Oral history interview with Adnan Waly, 1994 February-March.

Title: Oral history interview with Adnan Waly, 1994 February-March.

Early education with Gustav Hertz, and the search for heavy hydrogen. Work for the German General Electric Company under Fritz Lange. Doctoral studies with Max von Laue. Attempt to use thunderstorms to produce nuclear disintegration. Discovery of Rupp's fraudulent evidence for positive electrons coverup. Waly's anti-Nazi activities. Work with Cockcroft and Walton on sealing discharge tubes. Discovery of fission by Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch, and Otto Hahn. Collaboration with Leo Szilard. Early work on biophysics and cancer treatment. German decision to invade Norway. Study with Walther Nernst, Wehnelt, Pringsheim, and Czerny. Memories of Wolfgang Pauli and Schroedinger. Wartime work in Egypt on a microwave mine detector. Patents on fusion and fission. Irradiation of scandium. Frederic Joliot-Curie's letter to Stalin on behalf of Peter Kapitza. Exposing Hans v. Bohndorf's alchemy. Attending 1955 Atoms for Peace conference. Mention of the Rupp fraud, Recollections of Lawrence Ball, Van de Graaf, Halban, Carl von Weizsäcker, Hans Delbrück, Bodenstein, Bruno Pontecorvo, Fritz Houtermans, Bosch, Wehnelt, Erbacher, Racah, Amarldi, Ollendorf, Lenard, Kramer, Zeeman, and Salvador Dali. Nazif Bey's studies on Egyptian optics.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 140 pp.Sound recording: 4 cassettes (ca. 6 hrs.), 4 sessions.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82942225 View