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Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008. Oral history interview with Frederick Seitz, 1981 January 26 to 1982 March 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Frederick Seitz, 1981 January 26 to 1982 March 16.

Family background and early education, motivation and funding for college; math program at Stanford University, from 1928; physics studies at California Institute of Technology; graduate study at Princeton University, beginning 1932, atmosphere of the department, faculty (Lou Turner, Eugene Wigner, John Von Neumann); colloquia, Edward Condon. Development of applications of group theory, work in solid state with Linus Pauling, Hillard B. Huntington, Albert Sherman, William Hansen, William Shockley, Robert R. Brattain, R. Bowling Barnes. Betty Seitz; work with her on the text Modern Theory of Solids. Sodium band theory work with Wigner. To University of Rochester with Lee DuBridge. Centers for solid state work including University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, Harvard University (John Van Vleck). Work at General Electric, 1935-1936, studies of luminescence; atmosphere in industrial labs following Depression, contacts with other industrial labs; association with DuPont. State of physics in 1930s, trends at solid state centers. Work on crystal defects, pigments, leading to work on germanium and, particularly, silicon; history of study of semiconductors and influences on its development such as World War II; work on dislocations and creep; work at Westinghouse Company. World War II work with Frankford Arsenal, Dahlgren Proving Ground, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory; University of Pennsylvania, 1938; Carnegie-Mellon University, 1942, on dark trace tubes, leading to color center papers; University of Chicago work on reactors and neutron diffraction, 1943; Oak Ridge National Laboratory with Wigner; Argonne National Laboratory, solid state group. With Field Intelligence Agency Technical (FIAT), visit to Gottingen, 1945; state of solid state physics in international centers and U.S. Return to Carnegie-Mellon; diffusion theory. Pugwash Conferences; trips to Japan, 1953 and 1962, conditions and theoretical solid state work in postwar Japan. To University of Illinois, 1949 (Wheeler Loomis); John Bardeen's work, visits by Nevill Mott and Heinz Pick; McCarthyism. Development of Seitz's bibliography, changes in the study of solid state during the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 4 sound cassettes (ca. 6.0 hrs.), 4 sessions.Transcript: 116 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82694689 View

Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008. The Princeton years and beyond, 1930-1940: Invited paper for the March 1992 meeting of the American Physical Society, 1992.

Title: The Princeton years and beyond, 1930-1940: Invited paper for the March 1992 meeting of the American Physical Society, 1992.

Draft paper outlining Seitz's professional career in the context of developments in the field of solid state physics. Seitz discusses his undergraduate education at Stanford University, his graduate studies at Princeton under Edward Condon and Eugene Wigner, his post in the Physics Department of the University of Rochester, the publication of his book The Modern Theory of Solids, his move to the General Electric Research Laboratories (1937), and then to the University of Pennsylvania Physics Department (1939) where he continued to work during World War II. The paper also contains accounts of many of Seitz's colleagues and their research. Those prominently mentioned include John Bardeen, Edward Condon, Lee DuBridge, Saul Dushman, Robert Hofstadter, Albert Hull, Nevill Mott, Isidor I. Rabi, William Shockley, John Slater, John von Neumann, and Eugene Wigner.

ArchivalResource: 21 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81896040 View

Nix, Foster Cary, 1905-. Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.

Title: Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.

Mainly concerns Nix's work at Bell Laboratories. Educational background; recollections of John B. Johnson, Nix's work on barriers for gaseous diffusion plants during World War II; physics seminars at Bell Labs in the 1930s, and the relation of Bell Labs to the international physics community. Also prominently mentioned are: John Bardeen, Joseph A. Becker, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Eugene Booth, Walter Bothe, Walter Houser Brattain, Oliver E. Buckley, James Chadwick, Marie Sklodowska Curie, Pierre Curie, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Clinton Joseph Davisson, John R. Dunning, James Brown Fisk, Harvey Fletcher, Lester Halbert Germer, Stephane Groueff, Leslie Richard Groves, Fritz Haber, Werner Heisenberg, Alan Holden, H.E. Ives, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Mervin J. Kelly, Charles Kittel, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, Linus Pauling, Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Robert Wichard Pohl, Isidor Isaac Rabi, William Shockley, John Clarke Slater, Gordon K. Teale, Charles Hard Townes, E.C. Wente, Addison Hughson White, Eugene Paul Wigner, Dean E. Wooldridge; Columbia University, Cornell University, Keley Corporation, Manhattan Project, Reviews of Modern Physics, and University of Alabama.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 50 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78076042 View

Migdal, A. B. (Arkadiĭ Beĭnusovich), 1911-1991. Oral history interview with A. B. Migdal, 1977 May 25.

Title: Oral history interview with A. B. Migdal, 1977 May 25.

Early childhood; born 1911 near Vilna (USSR); secondary school in Leningrad; studied physics at University of Leningrad (Vladmir Fok); first paper published prior to university studies, 1927; collaboration with Lev Landau in 1938; life at Leningrad Physical-Technical Institute; effects of World War II on physics in the USSR; Landau's view on theorists; influence of Western texts in the USSR; comparison of Lev Landau with Enrico Fermi. Also prominently mentioned are: Abrikosov, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Walter Heitler, A. F. Ioffe, Petr Kapitsa, Khvolson, Massey, Harrie Stewart Wilson, Nevill Francis Mott, Okun, Wolfgang Pauli, Isaak I. Pomeranchuk, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, Victor Frederick Weisskopf; and Leningradskii gosudarstvennyi universitet imeni A. A. Zhdanova.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 13 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79074354 View

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

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.530.1.Ar2-ead.xml View

Giulotto, Luigi, 1911-1986. Oral history interview Luigi Giulotto, 1982 December 7.

Title: Oral history interview Luigi Giulotto, 1982 December 7.

Childhood influences of father and teacher on career decision; childhood experiences as radio amateur. First studies in physics at Collegio Borromeo, Pavia; influences of Adolfo Campetti and Prof. Brunetti in radioactivity. Spectroscopy work with Campetti and later experimentation with Raman spectroscopy of calcite. Graduation, 1933; meeting future wife. Move to Switzerland during World War II; repatriation and resumption of lab work at Università di Pavia. Abortive work toward lamb shift in hydrogen spectrum. Postwar instrumentation and funding problems. Move to nuclear magnetic resonance; reproduction of Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell experiment; work on "negative temperature." Foreign influences brought by Fausto Fumi from Frederick Seitz, Nevill Mott; work with students in solid state. Views about the state of Italian physics, particularly on Edoardo Amaldi and the funding priority given to high energy physics.

ArchivalResource: Untranscribed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80630266 View

Evans, Ivor. Papers and correspondence, 1941-1978.

Title: Papers and correspondence, 1941-1978.

The collection was assembled by Evans from his own papers to document the development of Operational Research during the Second World War with special reference to the Army Operational Research Group (AORG). The material consists of memoranda and reports, 1941-1952, and some historical accounts of the development of Operational Research. It includes the report (by Evans and N. F. Mott) which became the first official AORG report.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78404565 View

Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-. Press conference with Sir Nevill Mott and Philip Anderson after they won the Nobel Prize [sound recording] / 1977 March.

Title: Press conference with Sir Nevill Mott and Philip Anderson after they won the Nobel Prize [sound recording] / 1977 March.

Mott and Anderson discuss their work with amorphous materials, and current developments in research in solid state physics.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape cassette (30 min.) : analog, mono. ; 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79391003 View

McCasland, S. Vernon (Selby Vernon), 1896-1970. Papers of S. Vernon McCasland, 1938-1970.

Title: Papers of S. Vernon McCasland, 1938-1970.

Correspondence, scholarly writings, administrative material, legal and financial papers. Topics in McCasland's correspondence include Biblical exegesis, particularly New Testament Greek and the translation and interpretation of obscure or difficult passages; and critiques and reviews of his own articles and those of colleagues. Also scholarly publication, particularly his efforts to have "By the finger of God" published; sales of "The resurrection of Jesus"; the teaching of religion in the public schools; and terms as vice-president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and president of the National Association of Biblical Instructors. Also World War II and its effect on the lives of former students, their fellow soldiers and the civilian population in war zones; life in Reconstruction Germany, both East and West, of former colleagues. Also the establishment of the John B. Cary memorial professorship at the University of Virginia; the religious department and its students and courses; the Barbour and Richards lectures; the chapel committee, Religious Council, YMCA and chess club, Zionism; anti-semitism; and the Disciples of Christ church. There are drafts and proofs for "By the finger of God," and for its introduction by David C. Wilson; "The Hellenistic world in New Testament Times," written as an article for "The interpreter's Bible"; "The pioneer of our faith", "The religion of the Bible"; and "Religions of the world". Also typescript with editor's and typesetter's notations of "Religions of the World" by S. Vernon McCasland, Grace E. Cairns, and David C. Yu together with galley proof and note cards used to prepare the index. There are also personal records, recommendations, and grade reports for religion majors, some personal, legal and financial papers, and blue prints of the original plans for St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church.

ArchivalResource: 5000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647814643 View

Touschek, Bruno, 1921-. Papers, 1947-1978.

Title: Papers, 1947-1978.

The collecton includes correspondence, manuscripts, laboratory notebooks, diaries, drawings, and reports; also information on storage rings (ADA, ADONE), and physics institutions in Italy and Europe including Società Italiana di fisica (SIF), Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Laboratori nazionali di Frascati and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Correspondents include W. Heisenberg, W. Pauli, E. Amaldi, P. A. M. Dirac, M. Fierz, M. Gell-Mann, F. K. Goward, J. H. Jensen, N. F. Mott, G. Occhialini, G. K. O'Neill, V. Telegdi, W. Thirring, L. Van Hove, M. Von Lave, V. Weisskopf and R. Wideröe.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79356806 View

The Origins of Solid State Physics in Italy: 1945-1960 . (1987 : Pavia, Italy). Conference proceedings, 1987.

Title: Conference proceedings, 1987.

Proceedings of conference organized by Gruppo Nazionale di Strutture della Materia del CNR, Gruppo Nazionale de Storia della Fisica del CNR, Centro Interuniversitario di Struttura della Materia del MPI, and dipartimento di Fisica "Volta" dell'Università di Pavia and held at Collegia Chislieri. Speakers include Fausto Fumi, Giuseppe Giuliani, Giorgia Montalenti, Piero G. Bordoni, Gianni Bonera, Adriano Gozzini, Franco Scaramuzzi, Gianfranco Chiarotti, Franco Bassani, Hugo Palma, Paolo Camagni, Giovanni Boato, Roberto Fieschi, Fabio Bevilacqua, Nevill Mott, André Guinier, Frederick Seitz, Pierre Quedec, Helmut Schubert, Jürgen Teichman, and Ernst Braun. Topics addressed include the early history of solid state physics research; ferromagnetic research at the National Institute of Electro Technics of Galileo Ferraris; internal friction; the experiments of Luigi Guilotto; the evolution of microwave spectroscopy in Pisa; the evolution of low temperature physics in Frascati, Padua, and Rome; spectroscopy; the development of a laboratory at Padua after World War II which carried out research in electromagnetic resonance; work involving liquid and solid rare gases and superconductivity; the treatment of Italian physics in international studies; the history of magnetic properties of solids in France; the development of superconductivity; the work of Richard Pohl; and the history of dislocation theory.

ArchivalResource: 16 90-minute cassettes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78280503 View

Koehler, James Stark, 1914-. Oral history interview with James Stark Koehler, 1981 March 6.

Title: Oral history interview with James Stark Koehler, 1981 March 6.

University of Michigan, 1935; work with George E. Uhlenbeck; history of "dislocations." Postdoc with Frederick Seitz at University of Pennsylvania, Westinghouse fellowship; Seitz becomes department head at Carnegie Institute of Technology during World War II. Work with Office of Scientific Research and Development on armor penetration, and in Manhattan Project on radiation damage and mechanical properties of uranium. Colleagues and history of research in solid state. Sabbatical at University of Cambridge. Also mentioned at length are: David Mathias Dennison, Sir Francis Nevill Mott, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Wolfgang Pauli, and John A. Wheeler.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 32 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80616322 View

Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974. Oral history interview with Léon Rosenfeld, 1963 July 1 to 22.

Title: Oral history interview with Léon Rosenfeld, 1963 July 1 to 22.

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: Harald Bohr, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Max Born, Léon Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Th. de Donder, John Ray Dunning, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Otto Robert Frisch, Gruenbaum, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Pascual Jordan, Oskar Benjamin Klein, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Lev Davidovich Landau, Nevill Francis Mott, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, George Placzek, Edgar Rubin, Erwin Schrödinger, John Von Neumann, Eugene Paul Wigner; Universität Göttingen, Université de Liege, and Université libre de Bruxelles.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 63 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77898631 View

Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995. Papers, 1923-1974.

Title: Papers, 1923-1974.

The collection, which consists almost entirely of correspondence written and received, covers all aspects of Peierls's career to 1974, including scientific research, service on committees, advisory boards, etc., publications, appointment, overseas visits and the like. Peierls has attracted the attention of historians, and has given reminiscences and accounts of episodes in his life on tape, radio, television, in print and by correspondence. Several are in the collection; information on the location of others is provided. Peierls's retirement from the Wykeham Chair was marked by a Symposium held in Oxford in July 1974. Correspondence with participants, and tapes of the talks and discussion are contained in the collection, by courtesy of the organisers I. J. R. Aitchison and J. E. Paton, and include many personal and scientific recollections of Peierls and his career. There is extensive correspondence with Hans Bethe, Niels Bohr, Nevill Mott, and Wolfgang Pauli and shorter exchanges with Max Born, Ralph Howard Fowler, Werner Heisenberg, Lev Landau, George Placzek, J. Robert Oppenheimer and others.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155006762 View

Papers and correspondence of Sir Nevill Francis Mott, 1905-1996., 1902-2003

Title: Papers and correspondence of Sir Nevill Francis Mott, 1905-1996. 1902-2003

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes. ca 650 items.

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb12-cul View

George Gamow and Barbara Gamow Papers, 1915-1975, (bulk 1950-1975)

Title: George Gamow and Barbara Gamow Papers 1915-1975 (bulk 1950-1975)

George Gamow, physicist, astronomer, and author. Barbara Gamow, editor and translator. Correspondence, drafts of speeches, articles, and books, and other papers relating principally to George Gamow's career as an astronomer, physicist and popularizer of science and to Barbara Gamow's personal and literary associations.

ArchivalResource: 8,000 items; 30 containers plus 1 oversize; 12.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83495494 View

Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-. Correspondence with Rudolf Peierls,

Title: Correspondence with Rudolf Peierls,

ArchivalResource: 123 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155006522 View

Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-. Oral history interview with Sir Nevill Francis Mott, 1981 January 15.

Title: Oral history interview with Sir Nevill Francis Mott, 1981 January 15.

Comments on development of the band theory of solids before World War II. The postwar period. Bragg-Williams paper on order-disorder as forerunner of theory of co-operative effects. Quasi-particle theory. Main achievements summarized. Recalls what influenced his choice of research topics. Work on metal-insulator transition. Comments on Central European emigration during 1930s. Applications of electron theory of metals. Institutional affiliations, consultancies, etc. Unofficial networks in physics. Development of solid state physics as a discipline; evolution of financial suppport.

ArchivalResource: Preliminary transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82798893 View

Bardeen, John. The beginnings of solid state physics [sound recording] : a symposium / organized by Sir Nevill Mott, held 30 April - 2 May 1979.

Title: The beginnings of solid state physics [sound recording] : a symposium / organized by Sir Nevill Mott, held 30 April - 2 May 1979.

Sir Nevill Mott organized this symposium which took place at the Royal Society of London in the Spring of 1979. The objective was to collect together the reminiscences of some of the scientists who took part in the development of solid state electronics. The participants in the open discussion included: J. Bardeen, B. Coles, A. H. Cottrell, P.B. Hirsch, H. Jones, N. F. Mott, F. R. N. Nabarro, R. E. Peierls, H. Rosenberg, A. Seeger, D. Shoenberg, F. Sondheimer, A. H. Wilson; and historians, E. Braun, M. Gowing, L. Hoddeson, and K. von Mayenn.

ArchivalResource: 8 sound cassettes (11 hrs.) : analog, mono. ; 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79390954 View

Burbidge, Geoffrey R. Oral history interview with Geoffrey R. Burbidge, 1974 November 15.

Title: Oral history interview with Geoffrey R. Burbidge, 1974 November 15.

Early life in the Cotswolds, England; Bristol University, 1943, and physics program during WWII; teachers include Nevill Mott and Edward Tyndall; effect of WWII; work with Harrie Massey on meson capture; University College, London; meets wife and growing contacts in astronomy, late 1940s; thesis, 1952; work in stellar atmosphere; visit to U.S. at Howard and Terkes, 1951-1953; Cavendish group under Martin Ryle, house theoretician; contact with William Fowler and growing interest in nucleosynthesis, 1954; fellowship at Pasadena, 1955; opinions on operation of major observatories, philosophy of cosmological research, reaction to steady state; problem of high energy sources, synchrotron radiation; belief structure in cosmology; Halton Arp's work; Nuclear Processes in AstrophysicsB︣2FH; Yerkes Observatory, 1957; physics of galaxies, 1959. Also prominently mentioned are: Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, Margaret Burbidge, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Paul A. M. Dirac, Enrico Fermi, William Alfred Fowler, James Edward Gunn, Fred Hoyle, Martin Ryle, Allan Sandage, Maarten Schmidt, and Arthur Wolfe.

ArchivalResource: 1 session.Transcript: 30 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79294563 View

Nobel Prize Award Symposium (1978: Murray Hill, N.J.). Symposium honoring the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics recipients [sound recording]

Title: Symposium honoring the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics recipients [sound recording]

Symposium held at Bell Laboratories on March 21, 1978. Speakers include: Philip W. Anderson, "Broken Symetry: from Hicksons to Boojams;" R. J. Birgeneau, "The Magnetism of Rare Earth Inter-metallic Compounds;" Sir Neville Mott, "Defects in Glassine Materials;" T. M. Rice, "The Mott Transition: 30 Years Latter;" John Van Vleck, "A Magnetic Case History: the Oxygen Molecule."

ArchivalResource: 5 sound cassettes (4.5 hrs.) : analog, mono.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83510512 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83659646 View

Maurer, Robert Joseph, 1913-. Oral history interview with Robert Joseph Maurer, 1981 December 22.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert Joseph Maurer, 1981 December 22.

Maurer's opinions on the physics of color centers and point defects. Comments on the contributions of Yakov Frenkel, Robert Pohl, Nevill Mott, and others; developments in real crystals, rectification, and color centers.

ArchivalResource: Untranscribed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82942244 View

Gowing, Margaret. Papers, 1932-[ongoing].

Title: Papers, 1932-[ongoing].

Personal, professional, and academic papers, including correspondence, lectures, collected research material, etc. (excluding papers as official historian in the Cabinet Office & the Atomic Energy Authority). They concern chiefly the history of modern physics & especially atomic physics, the atomic bomb, political & economic aspects of modern science, & the preservation of public & scientific archives. Correspondents (physicists) include: Sir James Chadwick, Sir Alan Cottrell, P. V. Danckwerts, Lord (Brian) Flowers, Nicholas Kurti, Sir Nevill Mott, Sir Mark Oliphant, Sir Rudolf Peierls. Correspondents (other scientists, historian, public figures) include: Lord (Eric) Ashby, John M. Ashworth, Lord (Edward) Boyle, Lord (Alan) Bullock, D. S. L. Cardwell, Lord Carver, Leonard Cheshire, A. H. Halsey, Sir W. Keith Hancock, Peter Hennessy, Dorothy Hodgkin, Sir Michael Howard, R. V. Jones, Lord (Rodger) Sherfield, Sir Crispin Tickell, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Joan Warnow, Charles Webster, Sir Duncan Wilson, Lord Zuckerman. There are also some tape recordings of lectures, discussions, & reminiscences by scientists & by historians of science.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 200 files.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80490086 View