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Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-. Oral history interview with P. A. M. Dirac, 1962 April 1 to 14 May 1963.

Title: Oral history interview with P. A. M. Dirac, 1962 April 1 to 14 May 1963.

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, Max Born, Boyland, Louis de Broglie, Johannes Martinus Burgers, Paul Ehrenfest, Ralph Fowler, Peter Fraser, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Pascual Jordan, Cornelius Lanczos, Edward Arthur Milne, Wolfgang Pauli, David Robertson, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Schrödinger, John Joseph Thomson, Hermann Weyl; University of Cambridge, Delta Squared V Club, Kapitsa Club, Kbenhavns︣ Universitet, Merchant Venturer's School in Bristol, University of Bristol, and Universität Göttingen.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 115 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83770281 View

Kenneth Rea Papers on Director Training, ca.1988

Title: Kenneth Rea Papers on Director Training ca.1988

ArchivalResource: 24 files

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Sir Archive Michael Redgrave

Title: Sir Archive Michael Redgrave

Scripts for plays in which Michael Redgrave appeared, as well as a number of typescripts for the various readings and recordings which he made throughout his career.

ArchivalResource: 204 boxes (1411 files)

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Herzberg, Gerhard, 1904-1999. Oral history interview with Gerhard Herzberg, 1989 February 28 and 1 March.

Title: Oral history interview with Gerhard Herzberg, 1989 February 28 and 1 March.

Early life in Hamburg, Germany; education at Darmstadt; postdoc period in Göttingen, and Bristol, England; setting up his own lab at Darmstadt as Privatdozent; origins of first of his series of books; departure due to Jewish heritage of wife; fresh start in Saskatoon; more books; limited war research; first direct contributions to astrophysics during the war years; three years at the Yerkes Observatory; forty years of work at the National Research Council in Ottawa; Nobel Prize. Experimental techniques include high resolution grating spectroscopy with photographic plates, very long absorption paths, continuous and flash discharge emission and absorption. Contributions in molecular quantum mechanics, quantum chemistry, astronomy and astrophysics, planetary and cometary atmospheres. Leitmotif is hydrogen: H, H2, H3, H3+. Also prominently mentioned are: National Socialism and World War II.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 118 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82743676 View

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976. Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1970 February 23 and 7.

Title: Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1970 February 23 and 7.

Slater leaves Harvard University for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1930 (Karl Compton) to build up Physics Department there; work on quantum electrodynamics. Growth of MIT Physics Department in the 1930s and 1940s, relations between experimentalists and theorists; discussion of works and publications during the 1930s. Changes in U.S. physics; overview of post-World War II physics to 1951, and reasons for establishing own research group; establishment of the Radiation Lab, 1940; magnetron work; Bell Labs visits, 1941-1942 and 1943-1945. Planning of postwar development in MIT Physics Department; transition from Radiation Lab to Research Lab of Electronics; formation of laboratories of nuclear science, acoustics, and spectroscopy; the Lincoln Laboratory, the Instrumental Lab; growth of nuclear branch of Physics Department; physics activity in general in postwar years, Solid State and Molecular Theory Group; the Compton Lab.; Materials Science Center established ca. 1958; interdepartmental and interdisciplinary work; visits to Brookhaven National Laboratory; Slater and Per Olov Löwdin's Florida Group. Also prominently mentioned are: John Bardeen, W. Buechner, Arthur Holly Compton, Edward Uhler Condon, Jens Dahl, Robley Dunglison Evans, James Brown Fisk, George Harrison, Douglas Rayner Hartree, Raymond George Herb, Milton Stanley Livingston, Millard Manning, Jacob Millman, Wayne B. Nottingham, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Schafer, William Shockley, R. A. Smith, Julius Stratton, Robert Jamison Van de Graaff, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Eugene Paul Wigner; American Physical Society, California Institute of Technology, Florida State University, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Princeton University, University of Bristol, University of California at Berkeley, and University of Chicago.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 1 5-inch sound reel, 1 7-inch sound reel (ca. 4.25 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 89 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79789849 View

Papers of Basil Cottle, linguist and historian, 1917-1994, 1910-2003

Title: Papers of Basil Cottle, linguist and historian, 1917-1994 1910-2003

ArchivalResource: 31 archive boxes, 6 rolls, 46 photograph albums

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Papers and correspondence of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1910-1994, 1928-1993

Title: Papers and correspondence of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1910-1994 1928-1993

ArchivalResource: 232 boxes

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TAWNEY, Richard Henry, 1880-1962, historian: academic papers, 1890s-1961

Title: TAWNEY, Richard Henry, 1880-1962, historian: academic papers 1890s-1961

ArchivalResource: 179 boxes, 2 volumes

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Kenneth Ronald Lambert Hall Papers, 1958 - 1967

Title: Kenneth Ronald Lambert Hall Papers 1958 - 1967

ArchivalResource: 3 archive boxes

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Papers and correspondence of Joseph Black, 1938-2000

Title: Papers and correspondence of Joseph Black 1938-2000

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes

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Worsley Family Papers, 1660-1982

Title: Worsley Family Papers 1660-1982

ArchivalResource: 18 archive boxes plus rolled documents and 2 large portraits

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Marian Pour-El Papers 2011-025., 1940-2004

Title: Marian Pour-El Papers 1940-2004

Marian Pour-El (1928-2009) was bornin New York City, New York. She completed her bachelor’s degree in physics at HunterCollege (1945), her A.M. in mathematics at Harvard College (1951), and continued herstudies in mathematical logic at Harvard to earn her Ph.D. in 1958. She was one of thefirst and only female students in the Harvard mathematics department, a trend thatshe encountered throughout her career.

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Papers and correspondence of Sir Alfred Grenvile Pugsley, 1903-1998, 1938-1989

Title: Papers and correspondence of Sir Alfred Grenvile Pugsley, 1903-1998 1938-1989

ArchivalResource: 2 archive boxes

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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.

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Arthur Mannering Tyndall Papers, 1903-1961

Title: Arthur Mannering Tyndall Papers 1903-1961

ArchivalResource: 3 archive boxes plus related material throughout University papers

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Walter Kendall Stanton Papers, 1918-1974

Title: Walter Kendall Stanton Papers 1918-1974

ArchivalResource: 2 archive boxes

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John Hurrell Crook Papers, 1952 - 1997

Title: John Hurrell Crook Papers 1952 - 1997

ArchivalResource: 11 archive boxes

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Hodgkin, Dorothy, 1910-1994. Papers of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1928-1993.

Title: Papers of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1928-1993.

The papers provide a very full record of Dorothy Hodgkin's career, research and wider professional and public responsibilities. Biographical material includes records of Hodgkin's career, honours and awards, 1928-1990, including documentation of the award of the Nobel Prize, later family and personal correspondence and drafts of an unfinished autobiography. Research material forms by far the largest component in the collection and comprises very extensive documentation of the major topics of insulin, penicillin and vitamin B12 covering a period of sixty years from about 1928 to 1988. Most of the material was found in Hodgkin's box folders whose contents included correspondence, drafts for reports and publications, notebooks, notes and data. J.D. Bernal, with whom Hodgkin worked in Cambridge 1932-1934, and very many of her later collaborators including C.W. Bunn (penicillin) and E.L. Smith (vitamin B12) are represented in the papers by correspondence, drafts, notes and data. Although not extensive there is useful documentation of Hodgkin's Oxford University career including teaching in the 1940s and 1950s, her tenure of the Wolfson Research Professorship of the Royal Society, 1960-1977, the funding and administration of her research and the provision of equipment and supplies including the use of computer facilities at other institutions in the UK and USA and their development at Oxford. There are chronological sequences of material relating to Hodgkin's scientific publications and public lectures and substantial assemblages of material relating to her Royal Society memoirs of J.D. Bernal and Kathleen Lonsdale. There is documentation of Hodgkin's involvement with 16 British and international societies and organizations including Bristol University, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Physics, especially its X-ray Analysis Group established 1943, the International Union of Crystallography and the Royal Society. Her major commitments to Bristol University, where she was Chancellor for nearly twenty years, and to the International Union, which she served as President and whose congresses she attended 1948-1993, are particularly well documented. There is a chronological sequence of material relating to Hodgkin's scientific visits and conferences, 1936-1993, though the great bulk of the material is from the period after the award of the Nobel Prize in 1964. There is evidence for example of her interest in maintaining scientific contacts with the USSR and China during the Cold War and of visa difficulties in respect of visiting the USA during the same period. There is also documentation of the wide range of peace and humanitarian causes with which Hodgkin was involved. Represented are her major commitments to the Medical Aid Committee for Vietnam and Pugwash movement and other organizations and topics including the J.D. Bernal Peace Library, Palestine, Russian dissidents and Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (SANA). There is an extensive scientific correspondence in which many of her distinguished mentors and contemporaries are represented such as J.D. Bernal, W.L. Bragg, J.W. Cornforth, P.P. Ewald, I. Fankuchen, H. Lipson, Kathleen Lonsdale, A.L. Patterson, Linus Pauling, M.F. Perutz, Robert Robinson, R.L.M. Synge and Dorothy Wrinch, and very many of the younger scientists from Britain and overseas who researched in various capacities in her laboratory. The sequence is also noteworthy for the significant number of women scientists who trained in Hodgkin' laboratory. Non-textual material in the collection includes photographs, photographic slides and sound recordings. There are photographs of Hodgkin and scientific colleagues including J.D. Bernal, I. Fankuchen, H.M. Powell and other colleagues from the Oxford laboratory, P.L. Kapitza and F.H.C. Crick, a photograph album recording Pugwash occasions, 1969-1988, photographic slides for Hodgkin's lectures especially on insulin and vitamin B12 and sound recordings including the 1973 Nobel Guest Lecture and her Chancellor's Address to the Bristol University Education Department in 1974.

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Catalogues of the papers and correspondence of Sir Alec (Alexander Walter) Merrison, physicist, 1924-1989, 1931-2002

Title: Catalogues of the papers and correspondence of Sir Alec (Alexander Walter) Merrison, physicist, 1924-1989 1931-2002

ArchivalResource: 39 boxes

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Papers of Selig Brodetsky, 1900-1953

Title: Papers of Selig Brodetsky 1900-1953

ArchivalResource: 1.5 boxes

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Jones, H. (Harry), 1905-1986. Oral history interview with Harry Jones, 1981 January 20.

Title: Oral history interview with Harry Jones, 1981 January 20.

Early stages of career with Whittington at Leeds in 1920s. Postgraduate work in theoretical physics with Ralph H. Fowler at Cambridge, 1928-1930. Assistant to John Edward Lennard-Jones at Bristol, early 1930s. Development of electron theory of alloys, 1933-1937. Interactions with William Lawrence Bragg and Albert James Bradley. Development of Fermi surface concept Interactions with W. F. Mott and W. H. B. Skinner. Theoretical consultant to Mond Laboratory, Cambridge, 1937-1938. War work on blast waves in TNT. Comments on key pioneers of the electron theory of metals.

ArchivalResource: 1 session, audiotape, 2 cassettes, 2.0 hrs.

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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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80830652 View

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Records, 1939-1958.

Title: Records, 1939-1958.

Miscellaneous correspondence files and committee papers of the wartime energy project. The papers are from a variety of sources including: the Ministry of Aircraft Production which sponsored the MAUD Committee and was in charge of the project; the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which took over the responsibility and created the Directorate of Tube Alloys for the purpose; scientists in various universities--Oxford (Clarendon Laboratory), Cambridge (Cavendish Laboratory), Imperial College, London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol; scientists in Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.; the British Commonwealth Scientific Office in Washington, which was the focal point for British participation in the Manhattan project; the joint atomic energy project set up in Canada under J. D. Cockcroft; post-war Ministry of Supply files; and miscellaneous unregistered folders.

ArchivalResource: 675 files.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80524808 View

Slossen, Preston William, 1892-. Correspondence, 1938,1948.

Title: Correspondence, 1938,1948.

Papers, 1938,1948, include: letters (typed copies) to friends in the U.S. from Slossen, his wife, Lucy, and other members of his family, about social life, customs, schools, and politics in England and Europe, Nov. 15, 1938-May 2, 1939. Letters from July 10?, 1947-Nov. 3, 1948 discuss post-War politics and events at the University of Michigan and in Ann Arbor (Mich.).

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46781688 View

Sir George Oatley Architectural Papers, 1860s-1980s

Title: Sir George Oatley Architectural Papers 1860s-1980s

ArchivalResource: 28 plan chest drawers; 4 archive boxes; 5 shelves volumes; 21 buckets rolled plans; 2 piles oversized plans.

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Papers of John Beddoe, 1826-1911, 1830-1907

Title: Papers of John Beddoe, 1826-1911 1830-1907

ArchivalResource: 8 Archival Boxes

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Papers of the University of Bristol, 1830-[ongoing]

Title: Papers of the University of Bristol 1830-[ongoing]

ArchivalResource: 1253 archive boxes.

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Conwy Lloyd Morgan Papers, 1875-1938

Title: Conwy Lloyd Morgan Papers 1875-1938

ArchivalResource: 4 archive boxes

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Philip Morris Papers, 1942-1980

Title: Philip Morris Papers 1942-1980

ArchivalResource: 37 archive boxes

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Calendar of the collection of Sir Rutherford Alcock [manuscript] 1824-1846.

Title: Calendar of the collection of Sir Rutherford Alcock [manuscript] 1824-1846.

Calendar of the papers of the British physician, writer, and diplomat, housed at the University of Bristol, England.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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William Empson papers

Title: William Empson papers

Papers of the British poet and critic, William Empson, including his correspondence,manuscript compositions, biographical material, photographs, clippings, andcorrespondence and compositions of others.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet (22 boxes, 24 volumes, and 23 folders shelved as volumes)

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