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Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974. Papers and correspondence of Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, 1911-1975.

Title: Papers and correspondence of Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, 1911-1975.

The papers relate to almost every aspect of Blackett's career in science and public life. There is biographical material including large numbers of letters of congratulation received on the occasion of his scientific and public awards. There are records of his work on particle disintegration, cosmic rays, astrophysics, and magnetism, in the form of laboratory notebooks, working papers, correspondence, lectures, publications, and broadcasts. There is documentation of his activities on various defense projects, and as a member of government committees before, during and after the Second World War. Blackett's political interests are represented by material relating to the Association of Scientific Workers, Labour Party discussion groups on science and technology policy and the Ministry of Technology instituted after the Party's 1964 electoral victory. There are records of a wide range of science-related interests such as the history of science and technology, science, education and government, and nuclear weapons and disarmament, and of his overseas activities including material relating specifically to India and concerned with matters more generally affecting developing countries. A few lacunae in the surviving material have been identified. There are no documents relative to Blackett's service with the National Research and Development Corporation or the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and, of his correspondence during the Second World War, only that for 1942 survives.

ArchivalResource: 45.92 linear feet.

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Amaldi, Edoardo. Oral history interview with Amaldi Edoardo, 1969 April 9 and 10.

Title: Oral history interview with Amaldi Edoardo, 1969 April 9 and 10.

Family background; early interest in physics; chance meeting with Enrico Fermi in youth and early friendship with Emilio Segrè; enrolling in physics at University of Rome; recollections of Orso M. Corbino; 1931 Rome Conference on Nuclear Physics; 1934 visit to Cambridge with Segrè; transition from spectroscopy to nuclear physics work at Rome; reaction to discovery of neutron; Ettore Majorana's work; slow neutron experiments; Fermi's approach toward theory and experiment; failure to discover fission; break-up of Rome group; 1936 trip to America; construction of two accelerators at Rome; 1939 trip to America; decision to discontinue fission experiments at Rome; usefulness of Hans A. Bethe's review articles; style of Rome group; physics elsewhere in Italy during 1930s; contacts with physicists outside Rome during 1930s; Italian physics during the war; postwar concern with elementary particles; recollections of Fermi in postwar period; work considered personally satisfying. Also prominently mentioned are: Herbert Anderson, Gilberto Bernardini, Torkild Bjerge, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Niels Henrik David Bohr, James Chadwick, Conversi, Otto Robert Frisch, George Gamow, Ettore Majorana, Pancini, Oreste Piccioni, George Placzek, Franco D. Rasetti, Westcott; Accademia Nazionale (Italy), Cavendish Laboratory, Columbia University, Conference on Nuclear Physics (1931 : Rome, Italy), Istituto superiore di sanità, and University of California at Berkeley, CA.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 1 5-inch sound reel (ca. 3.5 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 44 p.

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Chadwick, James, 1891-1974. Oral history interview with James Chadwick, 1969 April 15 to 20.

Title: Oral history interview with James Chadwick, 1969 April 15 to 20.

Family background; early interest in mathematics; physics at University of Manchester; Ernest Rutherford's influence; early research under Rutherford at Manchester; examination by Joseph J. Thomson for degree; recollections of associates at Manchester, including Niels Bohr; scholarship to Universität Berlin and work there with Hans Geiger; internment during World War I; scientific work at internment camp; return to Manchester; move with Rutherford to University of Cambridge; appointment as Assistant Director of Research at Cavendish Laboratory (ca. 1923); work with Rutherford on artificial disintegration; Rutherford's idea of the neutron; early experimental search for neutron; duties and experiences at the Cavendish Laboratory from 1919 to 1936; Rutherford's personality; Solvay conference of 1933; reasons for leaving Cambridge for University of Liverpool; initial plans, personnel and activities at Liverpool; cyclotron; award of Nobel Prize; encounter with Joliots, also in Stockholm for Prize in chemistry; influx of refugee theoreticians; work on the meson; changes effected by large machines; recollections of announcement of fission; World War II work; involvement with A-bomb project, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and General Leslie Groves; postwar considerations regarding international control of atomic energy; effect of Rutherford's death on Cavendish; return to Cambridge as Master of Gonville and Caius College; circumstances of resignation as Master; appraisal of personal satisfactions. Also prominently mentioned are: H. K. Anderson, John Anderson, Homi Bhabha, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Albert Einstein, Charles D. Ellis, Walter M. Elsasser, Ralph Howard Fowler, Maurice Goldhaber, Otto Hahn, Walter Heitler, J. R. Holt, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Douglas Lea, Lise Meitner, Stefan Meyer, Henry N. Moseley, Walther Nernst, Giuseppe Occhialini, Mark Oliphant, Maurice H. L. Pryce, Stanley Rolands, Heinrich Rubens, Joseph John Thomson, Merle Antony Tuve, Walke, H. C. Webster, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research of Great Britain, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Ministry of Aircraft Uranium Development Committee (Great Britain), Physikalische-Technische Reichsanstalt, Royal Society (Great Britain), University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge Cavendish Physical Society, and University of Liverpool.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 127 pp.

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Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985. Autobiographical data, ca. 1962.

Title: Autobiographical data, ca. 1962.

Morse describes his childhood and early education; his entry into Case Institute (later Case Western Reserve) where he initially studied mathematics with Jason J. Nassau; his dabblings with radio; studies in physics at Case under Dayton C. Miller, which convinced him to change his concentration from math to physics; graduate studies at Princeton University under Karl T. Compton, Edward U. Condon, and Ernst C. G. Stueckelberg; summer school studies at the University of Michigan; post-graduate summer employment at Bell Laboratories; Rockefeller Scholarship in Munich with Arnold Sommerfeld, Stueckelberg, and William P. Allis, where he met Linus Pauling and William L. Bragg; his move to Cambridge University where he worked with Neville F. Mott and Harrie S. W. Massey and became acquainted with Patrick M. S. Blackett, Paul Dirac, Ralph H. Fowler, Ernest Rutherford, and John Cockcroft; teaching position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; his graduate students William Shockley, James B. Fisk, and Richard Feynman; research in the 1930s in quantum mechanics and atomic collisions; contacts with Harvard Observatory; society memberships; World War II work for the Navy and at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and the National Research Council; his role in organizing and directing the construction of Brookhaven National Laboratory followed by more work for the Navy; his return to teaching and research at MIT in the 1950s in theoretical physics; trusteeships of a number of organizations, including the American Institute of Physics and the RAND Corporation; his work through 1962 in atomic physics, acoustics and operations research; and his non-scientific interests.

ArchivalResource: 14 pp.

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DINGLE, Professor Herbert (1890-1978), 1904-1978

Title: DINGLE, Professor Herbert (1890-1978) 1904-1978

ArchivalResource: 20 boxes

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Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971. Papers.

Title: Papers.

This collection consists of scientific and personal correspondence, scientific notebooks, texts of lectures, speeches and broadcasts, and reprints. Most of the correspondence dates from 1940 but there ae some earlier papers, notably a series of personal letters written during the 1914-1918 war. The collection includes correspondence with Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, Edward V. Appleton, William T. Astbury, John Desmond Bernal, Patrick M. S. Blackett, Niels Bohr, Max Born, A. J. Bradley, William Henry Bragg, C. W. Dunn, G. F. Claringbull, John D. Cockcroft, E. G. Cox, Francis H. C. Crick, Charles Galton Darwin, Herbert Dingle, Ulick R. Evans, Paul Peter Ewald, Dorothy Hodgkin, William Hume-Rothery, R. W. James, R. V. Jones, J. C. Kendrew, Max von Laue, Frederick A. Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), Kathleen Lonsdale, A. C. Bernard Lovell, H. Lowery, Nevill F. Mott, Max Perutz, David C. Phillips, George Porter, Ernest Rutherford, Martin Ryle, David Shoenberg, Charles Percy Snow, Edmund C. Stoner, George P. Thomson, Joseph John Thomson, S. Tolansky, F. C. Toy, James D. Watson, and M. H. F. Wilkins.

ArchivalResource: 60,000.

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Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962. Arthur Holly Compton personal papers, 1905-1971.

Title: Arthur Holly Compton personal papers, 1905-1971.

Includes correspondence documenting both Compton's scientific career and his work with various humanitarian organizations; research notebooks containing experimental data concerning x-rays, gamma rays, and cosmic rays; publications by Compton and other physicists, including P. M. S. Blackett, Karl T. Compton, Robert Millikan, Ernest Rutherford, and others; sound recordings; home movies; glass slides; photographs, scrapbooks, awards, and other memorabilia; biographical information on members of the Compton family.

ArchivalResource: 126 linear feet.

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Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-. Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1967 May 3.

Title: Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1967 May 3.

Career in nuclear physics, chiefly through 1939; describes differences in atmosphere among the Universities of Vienna, Berlin, London and Copenhagen; his switch from mathematics to physics at Vienna; work at University of Berlin on a grant, with Peter Pringsheim, before going to Hamburg to work with Otto Stern; with Hitler laws in effect, leaves for position with Patrick M. S. Blackett at Birkbeck College, 1933; then to Niels Bohr's Institute, until 1939; anecdotes about working on neutron experiments and nuclear models in Copenhagen; recounts how he and Lise Meitner explained fission, and memorandum with Rudolf Peierls on bomb possibilities; brief comments on postwar career.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 44 pp.

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Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), 1897-1974. Atomic energy and the United Nations : the Atomic Energy Commission.

Title: Atomic energy and the United Nations : the Atomic Energy Commission. 1946.

Speech by P.M.S. Blackett delived to the Conference on Science and the Welfare of Mankind, Feb 17 1946. At top: C5/46.18.2.46, copied by N.S.W. Division, A.A.S.W.

ArchivalResource: 10 p. ; 33 cm.

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RUNCORN, Stanley Keith (1922 - 1995), 1936 - 1995

Title: RUNCORN, Stanley Keith (1922 - 1995) 1936 - 1995

ArchivalResource: 100 boxes, [2800] items

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Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk), 1898-1950

Title: Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk) 1898-1950

Primary source materials for the history of quantum physics in the twentieth century, collected under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society and the American Physical Society, with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

ArchivalResource: 300.0 Microfilm reel(s), 12,500 items on 300 microfilm reels; 107 recordings

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Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976. Oral history interview with Werner Heisenberg, 1962 November 30 to 12 July 1963.

Title: Oral history interview with Werner Heisenberg, 1962 November 30 to 12 July 1963.

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: Guido Beck, Richard Becker, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Harald Bohr, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Gregory Breit, Burrau, Constantin Carathéodory, Geoffrey Chew, Arthur Compton, Richard Courant, Charles Galton Darwin, Peter Josef William Debye, David Mathias Dennison, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Döpel, Drude (Paul's son), Paul Drude, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Walter M. Elsasser, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, John Stuart Foster, Ralph Fowler, James Franck, Walther Gerlach, Walter Gordon, Hans August Georg Grimm, Wilhelm Hanle, G.H. Hardy, Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, David Hilbert, Helmut Hönl, Heinz Hopf, Friedrich Hund, Ernst Pascual Jordan, Oskar Benjamin Klein, Walter Kossel, Hendrik. Anthony Kramers, Adolph Kratzer, Ralph de Laer Kronig, Rudolf Walther Ladenburg, Alfred Landé, Wilhelm Lenz, Frederick Lindemann (Viscount Cherwell), Mrs. Maar, Majorana (father), Ettore Majorana, Fritz Noether, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Franca Pauli, Wolfgang Pauli, Robert Wichard Pohl, Arthur Pringsheim, Ramanujan, A. Rosenthal, Adalbert Wojciech Rubinowicz, Carl Runge, R. Sauer, Erwin Schrödinger, Selmeyer, Hermann Senftleben, John Clarke Slater, Arnold Sommerfeld, Johannes Stark, Otto Stern, Tollmien, B.L. van der Waerden, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Woldemar Voigt, John Von Neumann, A. Voss, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, H. Welker, Gregor Wentzel, Wilhelm Wien, Eugene Paul Wigner; Como Conference, Kapitsa Club, Kbenhavns ︣Universitet, Solvay Congress (1927), Solvay Congress (1962), Universität Göttingen, Universität Leipzig, Universität München, and University of Chicago.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 300 p.

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Heitler, Walter, 1904-. Oral history interview with Walter Heitler, 1963 March 18 and 19.

Title: Oral history interview with Walter Heitler, 1963 March 18 and 19.

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: Hans Albrecht Bethe, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, K. Böhm, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Georg Bredig, Louis de Broglie, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, Karlsruhe Technische Hochschule, Ralph de Laer Kronig, K. Loewner, Fritz London, G. Rumer, Erwin Schrödinger, Arnold Sommerfeld, Otto Stern, Gregor Wentzel, Hermann Weyl, Wilhelm Wien, Hideki Yukawa; Universität Berlin, University of Bristol, Copenhagen Conferences, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft meeting (Freiburg), Universität Göttingen, Universität München, Zurich Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, and Universität Zurich.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 33 pp.

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Papers and correspondence of Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, 1897-1974, 1911-1975

Title: Papers and correspondence of Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, 1897-1974 1911-1975

ArchivalResource: 14 linear metres

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McCrea, William Hunter. Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.

Title: Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.

Covers his family background, upbringing, education at the University of Cambridge, and positions at University of Edinburgh, Imperial College, University of Belfast, Royal Holloway College and University of Sussex. The scientific topics discussed include: the development of Newtonian cosmology, the origins and development of steady-state cosmology; work on theories of the solar system. Also prominently mentioned are: Philip Abelson, Luis Walter Alvarez, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Raymond Thayer Birge, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Ira Sprague Bowen, Sydney Chapman, Karl Taylor Compton, Edward Uhler Condon, Charles Galton Darwin, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Kenneth Dodd, Colonel Dudley, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Robley Dunglison Evans, Enrico Fermi, Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Howard Fowler, Friedman, Wolfgang Gentner, Thomas Gold, Sterling E. Hendricks, Fred Hoyle, Edwin Powell Hubble, Henry Hulme, James Jeans, W.O. Kermack, Joseph Larmor, Charles Christian Lauritsen, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, George Lemâitre, Milton Stanley Livingston, Howard J. Lucas, Walter Michels, Edward Arthur Milne, Joe Morris, Arthur A. Noyes, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Linus Pauling, Firth Pierce, George Placzek, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Samuel Ruben, Henry Norris Russell, Ryokishi Sagane, Samson, Erwin Schrödinger, Emilio Gino Segrè, George Paget Thomson, Robert Jamison Van de Graaff, Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler, Warren. Weaver, Edmund T. Whittaker, Robert Rathbun Wilson, Charles Thomas Zahn; California Institute of Technology, Cambridge Radio Survey, Germany Kriegsmarine, Great Britain Science Research Council, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, National Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Princeton University, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society, Universität Göttingen, University of California at Berkeley, University of Edinburgh, and Zeitschrift für Physik.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 38 p.

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GABOR, Professor Dennis (1900-1979), 1911-1985

Title: GABOR, Professor Dennis (1900-1979) 1911-1985

ArchivalResource: 43 boxes

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Tamm, I. E. (Igorʹ Evgenʹevich), 1895-1971. Papers, 1921-1971.

Title: Papers, 1921-1971.

This collection consisting of correspondence, unpublished papers, research notebooks, and reprints is divided into two parts: Part I includes correspondence which is broken down into two chronological divisions; the first, spanning 1928-1937, includes copies of letters from P. Blackett, F. Bloch (1932), Niels Bohr (1934-1936); H. Casimir (1929); Paul Dirac (1928-1936); Paul Ehrenfest (1926-1932); T. Ehrenfest (daughter of P. Ehrenfest, 1928-1937); W. Elsasser (1928- ); W. Heitler (1929, 1932); P. Jordan (1931); F. Klein (1929); J. Cockroft (1931-1932); Alfred Landé (1934); N. Mott (1931, 1935), Ch. Moller, H.A. Lorentz (1927), R. Peierls (1932); A. Sommerfeld (1937). Russian physicists represented include: L.I. Mandel'stamm (1928-1943); V.A. Fock (1929-1955); D.V. Skobel'tzyn (1938), and N.N. Andreyev. Also Tamm's letters of 1928 and 1931 to his wife during visits to Germany and England. Part 2 includes: Correspondence, 1955-1971. Correspondents are: Hans Bethe, O. Chamberlain, F. Dyson, Drell, W. Heisenberg, L. Infeld, Flowers, C. Moller, J. Robert Oppenheimer, A. Pais, I. Prigogine, M. Gell-mann, R. Marshak, A. Salam, E. Segrè, S. Sakata, Hideki Yukawa, Victor Weisskopf, and Leo Szilard. Russian physicists represented include S.A. Altschuller, V.L. Ginzburg, E.L. Feinberg, and Da. A. Krizhnitx. Also includes letters from Russian biologists: Lederberg, A.A. Liybischev, V.N. Sukashev, V.A. Engelgardt. Chemist, A.N. Frumkin; and letters from the Solvay and Novel committees. The unpublished papers on physics span several years; those on biological matters date from the 1950s and 1960s. The research notebooks are from 1925-1927, 1931-1935, 1938-1940, and 1953. The reprints are of papers by Tamm and other physicists. Bibliography: "Igor Evegenevich Tamm," Moscow: Nauka publ., 1974.

ArchivalResource: 24 meters.

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William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

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Lovell, Bernard, Sir, 1913-. Oral history interview with Sir Bernard Lovell, 1971 July 6.

Title: Oral history interview with Sir Bernard Lovell, 1971 July 6.

Formation of Jodrell Bank Observatory, Patrick M. S. Blackett's support of cosmic ray program; staff members; early strategy at Jodrell Bank, radar meteor work; flare stars; importance of "accidental discoveries;" Hey-Appleton-Ryle; the Cambridge group, past and present; major achievements in radio astronomy; important contributions of Jodrell Bank; Cambridge's major contributions.

ArchivalResource: 1 sessionTranscript: 45 p.

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Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974. Oral history interview with P. M. S. Blackett, 1962 December 17.

Title: Oral history interview with P. M. S. Blackett, 1962 December 17.

Part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics oral history collection, 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: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, James Franck, Nevill Francis Mott, Giuseppe Occhialini, and Ernest Rutherford.

ArchivalResource: 1 sessionTranscript: 4 p.

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Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962. Papers, 1905-1962.

Title: Papers, 1905-1962.

Includes correspondence (1914-1962) documenting both Compton's scientific career and his work with various humanitarian organizations; research notebooks containing experimental data concerning x-rays, gamma rays, and cosmic rays; publications by Compton and other physicists, including P. M. S. Blackett, Karl T. Compton, Robert Millikan, Ernest Rutherford, and others; sound recordings; home movies; glass slides; photographs, scrapbooks, awards, and other memorabilia; biographical information on members of the Compton family.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 120 cu. ft.

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Shenstone, Allen Goodrich, 1893-. Autobiography, 1962.

Title: Autobiography, 1962.

The document describes Shenstone's family life and influence; his early education in Canada; his admission to Princeton University in 1910 and his work there in physics and mathematics under Oswald Veblen, Henry B. Fine, Edwin P. Adams, and Joseph H.M. Wedderburn; his admission to Cambridge University in 1914 and work in the Cavendish Laboratory under John Joseph Thomson and Charles T.R. Wilson which was cut short by his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1915. Shenstone discusses his war experiences and describes his duties as an engineer; his return to Princeton on fellowship after the war and his work under Edwin P. Adams; his fellowship work in nuclear physics at the Davendish Laboratory under Ernest Rutherford, James Chadwick, Patrick M.S. Blackett, Edmund C. Stoner, and Edward V. Appleton (1920-1921); his appointment to the physics faculty of Princeton in 1925 with Henry D. Smyth, and Louis A Turner. Shenstone also discusses in some detail his work in atomatic spectra during the late 1920s and 1930s with Henry Norris Russell and Harold Urey; teaching loads, the outfitting of the Princeton laboratory, including the building of the cyclotron; his experiences in London as head of the Canadian National Research Council liaison office during the Second World War; and the rebuilding of the Physics faculty at Princeton after the war with Henry D. Smyth, Robert Ladenburg, Milton G. White, Walker. Bleakney, John A. Wheeler, Eugene P. Wigner, Robert H. Dicke, Donald R. Hamilton, Rubby Sherr, Richard Hofstadter, David Bohm, Piet C. Gugelot, and Arthur S. Wightman; and conditions in the deparmtent up through the 1960s.

ArchivalResource: 16 p.

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JACKSON, Willis, Baron Jackson of Burnley (1904-1970), 1916-1970

Title: JACKSON, Willis, Baron Jackson of Burnley (1904-1970) 1916-1970

ArchivalResource: 56 boxes

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Gentner, Wolfgang, 1906-. Oral history interview with Wolfgang Gentner, 1971 November 15.

Title: Oral history interview with Wolfgang Gentner, 1971 November 15.

Early education; studies biophysics at Universität Frankfurt and Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut (Friedrich Dessauer, Rievsky); physics training (Erwin Madelung, Meissner); Dessauer's political troubles. Fellowship to Institut Radium (Marie Curie), 1933; building geiger counters (Frédéric Joliot-Curie); life and staff at Institut (Irene Joliot-Curie, Jean Perrin, Hans von Halban, Peter Preiswerk, Lew Kowarski, Rosenblum); Institut's role in development of nuclear physics (P.M.S. Blackett, Giuseppe Occhialini); first nuclear physics conference in Zurich (Paul Scherrer), 1933; London Conference of 1934 (Max Born, Maurice Goldhaber); F. Joliot-Curie thinking about accelerators and about building a cyclotron (Pierre Weiss); Gentner continues gamma ray work (Lise Meitner). Gentner leaves Institut after Curie's death; fellowship at Institute for Medical Research, Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut, Heidelberg (Walther Bothe), 1935-1938; also lectures at Frankfurt on radioactivity, gamma rays, x-rays, and cosmic rays; builds the first Van der Graaf machine in Germany, 1936; first to use gamma rays to look for nuclear photo effect (Fowler, Lauritsen). Travels to United States to study cyclotrons (James Fisk), 1938; spends several months at University of California, Berkeley (E.O. Lawrence, Donald Cooksey); the fission story (Niels Bohr, J.R. Oppenheimer); calibrating ionization chamber and experimental work in fission; life and pre-war. Politics at Berkeley and Stanford University (Felix Bloch); visits California Institute of Technology (Fowler, Lauritsen, Max Delbrück); travels to Washington, DC (George Gamow, Edward Teller, Fleming, Merle Tuve); and ends tour in New York City (John R. Dunning, Lawrence, Bohr). Returns to Europe; visits John Cockcroft at University of Cambridge. Returns with wife to Germany in April, 1938; plans for Siemens to build cyclotron in Heidelberg canceled. Sent to Paris to interview F. Joliot-Curie on whereabouts of heavy water, July 1940; private meeting afterwards; works in Paris with F. Joliot-Curie on cyclotron, 1940-1942; returns to Heidelberg to build own cyclotron, 1942-1944. Difficulties of re-establishing nuclear physics in Germany after World War II (Cockcroft, Konrad Adenauer); building up new laboratories; CERN, DESY.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

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Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974. Oral history interview with Leon Rosenfeld, 1968 September 3.

Title: Oral history interview with Leon Rosenfeld, 1968 September 3.

Origins of interest in nuclear physics when George Gamow came to Göttingen and wrote his alpha radioactivity paper. Assisted Max Born with his treatise on quantum mechanics. Worked with Wolfgang Pauli in Zurich on quantum electrodynamics. Half-year in 1930 in Copenhagen working with Niels Bohr. Arrangement lasted until the war when Rosenfeld was called home. War years in Utrecht, Holland. Lived for the next 11 years (until 1958) in England. Topics discussed include 1931 Rome meeting; the reaction at Copenhagen when Bohr received Ernest Rutherford's letter announcing the discovery of the neutron; Werner Heisenberg's three papers on nuclear structure; a colloquium at Copenhagen on the Enrico Fermi experiments; attendance at the 1934 Kharkov conference; the large-scale exodus of German physicists because of the coming to power of Adolf Hitler; and Bohr's assistance in the emigration of refugees. He shows how physicists themselves recognized the significance of what they were doing, and uses of, for examples, the discovery of the neutron, the compound nucleus, the neutrino idea, the positron, the Hideki Yukawa prediction, and fission. Also prominently mentioned are: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, James Chadwick, John Cockcroft, Otto Robert Frisch, Fritz G. Houtermans, Dmitriy Dmitrevich Ivanenko, Lev Davidovich Landau, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, Karl Scheel, Eugene Paul Wigner; Conference on Nuclear Physics (1931 : Rome, Italy), Conference on Theoretical Physics (1934 : London, England), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), Kharkov Conference (1934 : Kharkov, USSR), Niels Bohr Institutet, and University of Manchester.

ArchivalResource: Audiotapes: 1- 5" reel, 3.0 hours.Transcript 35 pages

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