52358421 http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nk3gjp revised SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context English VIAF revised 2015-09-18 machine CPF merge program Merge v2.0 revised 2016-08-15T13:24:36 machine SNAC EAC-CPF Parser Bulk ingest into SNAC Database revised 2016-08-15T13:24:36 human System Service (system@localhost) created 2026-05-27 machine SNAC EAC-CPF Serializer SNAC Identity Constellation serialized to EAC-CPF /data/source/findingAids/ahub/f_2667.xml Frisch Otto Robert 1904-1979 nuclear physicist /data/source/findingAids/aps/Mss.Ms.Coll.54-ead.xml Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-1979 /data/source/findingAids/aps/Mss.530.1.Ar2-ead.xml Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-1979 /data/source/findingAids/ahub/f_22007.xml Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-1979, physicist /data/source/findingAids/aps/Mss.B.W564-ead.xml Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-1979 person Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904- presumed Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-1979 presumed Frisch, Otto R., 1904-1979 presumed Frisch, Otto Robert presumed Frisch, Otto R. (Otto Robert), 1904-1979 presumed フリッシュ, O. R. presumed Frisch, Otto, 1904-1979 presumed Frisch, O. R. presumed Frisch, R. 1904-1979 presumed Frisch, O. R. 1904-1979 (Otto Robert), presumed フリッシュ, オットー presumed Frisch, O. R. 1904-1979 presumed Frisch, Otto R. presumed Frisch, Otto presumed Frisch, O. R. 1904- (Otto Robert), presumed Frisch, O. R. 1904- presumed 1904-10-01 1979-09-22 English Antisemitism Atomic bomb Atomic theory Neutrons Nuclear fission Nuclear models Nuclear physics Quantum theory Science Britons Physicists

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From the description of Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1967 May 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83622710 From the description of Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1963 May 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79789841 Abraham, Max, 1875-1922 Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988. Amaldi, Edoardo. Amaldi, Edoardo, 1908-1989 American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. American Philosophical Society. American Physical Society. American Physical Society and American Philosophical Society. American Physical Society. Meeting (1967 : Washington, D.C.) Andrade, E. N. da C., (Edward Neville da Costa), 1887-1971 Arnold, William Archibald, 1904- Back, Ernst, 1881-1959 Bauer, Edmond, 1880-1963 Becquerel, Jean, 1878-1953 Benedicks, Carl Axel Fredrik, 1875-1953 Berliner, Arnold, 1862-1942 Birge, Raymond T., (Raymond Thayer), 1887-1980 Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974. Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. Boot, Henry Albert Howard, 1917- Born, Max, 1882-1970 Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981 Broglie, Louis de, 1892-1987 Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967 Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962 Coster, Dirk, 1889-1950 Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962 Debye, Peter J. W., (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966 Dieke, Gerhard Heinrich, 1901-1965 Dirac, P. A. M., (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984 Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944 Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933 Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 Fokker, A. D., (Adriaan Daniel), 1887-1972 Fowler, A., (Alfred), 1868-1940 Franck, James, 1882-1964. Gerlach, Walther, 1889-1979 Gold, Thomas. Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham, 1902-1978 Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934 Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 Hilbert, David, 1862-1943 Joliot-Curie, Frédéric Jordan, Pascual, 1902-1980 Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike, 1853-1926 Kapitsa, P. L., (Petr Leonidovich), 1894-1984 Kayser, H., (Heinrich), 1853-1940 Kemble, Edwin C., (Edwin Crawford), 1889-1984 Klein, Oskar, 1894-1977 Kobenhavns universitet. Kowarski, Lew. Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952 Kuhn, H. G. (Heinrich Gerhard), 1904- Kuhn, Thomas S. Ladenburg, Rudolf Walter, 1882-1952 Langevin, Paul, 1872-1946 Laue, Max von, 1879-1960 Lauritsen, Thomas, 1915-1973. Levi, Hilde. London, Fritz, 1900-1954. McLennan, J. C., (John Cunningham), 1867-1935 Medicus, Heinrich, 1918- Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968. Mie, Gustav, 1868-1957 Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953 Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, 1896-1986 Niels Bohr institutet. Niels Bohr Library. Nishina, Yoshio, 1890-1951 Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 Paschen, F., (Friedrich), 1865-1947 Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958 Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995. Planck, Max, 1858-1947 Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898- Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974. Rosseland, Svein, 1894-1985 Rubens, Heinrich, 1865-1922 Runge, Carl, 1856-1927 Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937 Scheel, Karl, 1866-1936 Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961 Segrè, Emilio. Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951 Stark, Johannes, 1874-1957 Stern, Otto. Thirring, Hans, 1888-1976. Thomson, J. J., Sir, (Joseph John), 1856-1940 Tolansky, Samuel, 1907-1973 Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988 Ulam, Stanislaw M. (Stanislaw Marcin), 1909-1985 Universität Berlin. Universität Hamburg. Universität Wien. Universität Wien. University of London. Van Vleck, J. H., (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980 Voigt, Woldemar, 1850-1919 Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 Waly, Adnan. Warburg, Emil Gabriel, 1846-1931 Warburg, Otto Heinrich, 1883-1970. Weiner, Charles. Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002 Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008. Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943 Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904- Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995. Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1969 August 11 to 13. Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995. Weiner, Charles. Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1969 August 11 to 13. Transcript, 160 pp. Aspects of Peierls' life and his work in theoretical physics. Physicists and physics research in Manchester, Cambridge, Birmingham and other British institutions, beginning in 1933 after Rockefeller Fellowship in Rome and Cambridge. Observations on Russian physics. Peierls marries Russian physicist. Trips to Russia in the 1930s; attitude toward fission and his work with Otto R. Frisch on the possibility of developing the atomic bomb; impressions of the U.S. in 1942 and his war work which was involved with atomic energy research. Other topics discussed are: James Chadwick's cyclotron; Lord Cherwell's accelerator at Oxford; Cecil F. Powell's discovery of the pion and development of photographic emulsion techniques; background of the Klaus Fuchs case; postwar experimental work at Birmingham University; his role in postwar development of quantum electrodynamics; participation in conferences; the effect of atomic energy on world politics. Postwar concern with broad-based issues in academic, social and political fields. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Medicus, Heinrich, 1918-. International congress for nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics and cosmic radiation [motion picture] / photographed by Heinrich Medicus. Medicus, Heinrich, 1918- International congress for nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics and cosmic radiation [motion picture] / photographed by Heinrich Medicus. 1949. 1 film reel (10 min.) : si., b&w ; 8 mm. Participants, photographed by Medicus, at conference (organized by the Italian and Swiss Physical Societies), held in Basel, Switzerland. Speakers include: Otto Frisch, Bruno Pontecorvo, and Emilio Segrè. Attendees include: Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, Lew Kowarski, Hendrik Kramers, Lise Meitner, Wolfgang Pauli, I.I. Rabi, and Gian Carlo Wick. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008. Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1988 May 4 to November 28. Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008. Aaserud, Finn, Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1988 May 4 to November 28. Preliminary transcript. First part of interview focusses on Wheeler's work and relationship with Niels Bohr at the Copenhagen Institute in the 1930s; discovery of the meson, Delbrück effect, and resonance capture of neutrons; how the Institute worked; character of James Franck; Margrethe Bohr; origins of the compound nucleus model; Wheeler's first encounter with Bohr; pair theory; gravitational theory; Wheeler's philosophy of physics; Bohr's philosophy, the "open world." Second session deals mainly with science policy and science advising in the United States and Europe after World War II. Vice-president of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), 1951-1954; chairman of U.S. NATO subcommittee (Henry Jackson); work for establishment of the NATO Science Council; U.S. delegate to the NATO Parliamentarians, Paris 1957. Discussion of his concern about scientific manpower; postwar Europe (Holland, France) leads to awareness of need for a national defense research laboratory in U.S. (discussed here at great length using correspondence, reports and memos); "Project 137" summer study (Los Alamos) (Marvin Goldberger, Kenneth Watson, Keith Brueckner); JASON. Discussions of pre-World War II Europe, war work at Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago with Eugene Wigner (DuPont); scientific work on acceleration of cosmic rays (Enrico Fermi; elementary particle physics) leads to Directorship of Cosmic Ray Laboratory at Princeton. University; work on general relativity; the Crunch, Geometrodynamics; the hydrogen bomb project; the J. Robert Oppenheimer affair. Much of the discussion is based on correspondence. The origins of JASON are discussed in session three; "Project 137;" importance and place of defense work in science; contacts between JASON members and policy-makers; impact of JASON on physics and national security policy; criticism during Vietnam War; Wheeler's affiliation with the Batelle Memorial Institute; establishment of the Joint Committee on the History of Theoretical Physics in the 20th Century (Thomas Kuhn). Also mentioned at length are: Hermann Bondi, Gregory Breit, Nicholas Christofilos, P.A.M. Dirac, Freeman Dyson, Otto Frisch, James Killian, Hilde Levi, Kenneth Mansfield, Oscar Morgenstern, Philip Morris, Donald Price, Ernest Rutherford, Marvin Stern, Edward Teller, Charles H. Townes, Oswald Veblen, and Herbert York. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Levi, Hilde. Oral history interview with Hilde Levi, 1971 October 28. Levi, Hilde. Weiner, Charles. Oral history interview with Hilde Levi, 1971 October 28. Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 3.0 hrs.)Transcript: 86 p. Graduate studies in Berlin in the early 1930s with Beutler; Ph.D. in molecular spectroscopy, 1934. Contacts in Denmark lead to stay at Niels Bohr Institutet as James Franck's assistant working on photo-synthesis, 1934-1935. Levi changes fields after Franck leaves and Otto Frisch and Georg von Hevesy arrive: she builds Geiger counters with Frisch, then works with Hevesy on induced radiation experiments. Lengthy discussion of how Hevesy's active work style and inspiring attitude engaged people at many different institutions, including herself. Collaborations among Bohr's Institute and other groups, e.g. Enrico Fermi's Institute in Rome, August Krogh Institute, and the Finsen Institute. Anecdotes about Bohr and Hevesy; an account of the beryllium sources handmade by Frisch and Levi. Levi's work in Sweden at the Wenner-Gren Center Foundation during World War II. Discussion of Bohr, Krogh, and Paul Bergst as leaders. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Kuhn, H. G. (Heinrich Gerhard), 1904-. Oral history interview with H.G. Kuhn, 1984 July 09. Kuhn, H. G. (Heinrich Gerhard), 1904- Oral history interview with H.G. Kuhn, 1984 July 09. Transcript, 15 p. Departure from Hitler's Germany in 1933; German political situation and antisemitism. Fritz Lindemann's role in securing a position for Kuhn at University of Oxford, where he joined Derek Jackson's group working on high resolution spectroscopy; own interests more in astrophysics. Interview deals mainly with Kuhn's World War II work in Francis Simon's group at Oxford, where he developed diffusion membranes for molecular flow in gases. Impressions of visits to, and travel in the U.S. during the War. Justification for the development of atom bomb; the Franck report. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Bohr, James Franck, Otto Frisch, and Klaus Fuchs. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Waly, Adnan. Oral history interview with Adnan Waly, 1994 February-March. Waly, Adnan. Pope, Martin, 1918- Oral history interview with Adnan Waly, 1994 February-March. Transcript: 140 pp.Sound recording: 4 cassettes (ca. 6 hrs.), 4 sessions. 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. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Stanislaw M. Ulam Papers, 1916-1984 Ulam, Stanislaw M. (Stanislaw Marcin), 1909-1985 Stanislaw M. Ulam Papers 1916-1984 36.0 Linear feet A gifted mathematician, Polish-born Stanislaw Ulam made contributions to set theory, topology, mathematical logic, and number theory, but is most widely remembered for his work in fostering the technical development of thermonuclear weapons. He was associated with Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories for most of the years between 1943 and 1965, and thereafter with the University of Colorado. These papers include personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts of both published and unpublished works, and memorabilia. American Philosophical Society Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974. Oral history interview with Leon Rosenfeld, 1968 September 3. Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974. Weiner, Charles. Oral history interview with Leon Rosenfeld, 1968 September 3. Audiotapes: 1- 5" reel, 3.0 hours.Transcript 35 pages 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. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, E-J, [ca. 1870]-9999. Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, E-J, [ca. 1870]-9999. ca. 25,000 items. 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. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Kowarski, Lew. Papers, 1907-1981, (bulk 1930-1981). Kowarski, Lew. Papers, 1907-1981, (bulk 1930-1981). 15.25 linear ft. (31 boxes) Correspondence; memoranda; scientific notes and notebooks; diaries; drafts and texts of speeches; lecture notes; publications. The collection documents Kowarski's career in nuclear physics during and after World War II. It covers his work in the laboratory of Frédéric Joliot in Paris, especially research on the uranium fission chain reaction (1939-1940), and subsequent patent investigations (with copies of papers concerning the work of Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard); his war work on nuclear reactor development in Cambridge, England with Hans Halban, and at Chalk River, Canada; and his postwar work as a leader of the Commissariat a' lÉnergie Atomique (1946-1952), a founder and administrator of laboratory services and data processing at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); and a participant in international high-energy affairs, including work with the European Nuclear Energy Agency (ENEA). Also reflects his active involvement in the controversy over civilian nuclear energy. The addition to the collection covers primarily his post 1950 work and chronicles the developments in the international community of atomic scientists, including the movement of European scientists; the application of reactor technology; the social impact of nuclear technology; the development of data processing devices in high-energy physics, international cooperation; and peaceful uses of atomic energy. Correspondents include: Luis. Alvarez, Otto Robert Frisch, Samuel Goudsmit, William Frederick Miller, Joseph Rotblat, Maurice Shapiro, Victor Weisskopf, Eugene Wigner. English French German American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Segrè, Emilio. Oral history interview with Emilio Gino Segrè, 1967 February 13. Segrè, Emilio. Weiner, Charles. Oral history interview with Emilio Gino Segrè, 1967 February 13. Sound recording: 1 5-inch sound reel (ca. 4.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 109 p. Founding of the school of physics, Università di Roma, role of Orso Mario Corbino and others in recruiting young physicists; the decision to work on nuclear physics; financial support for and public knowledge of work at the university; contacts with other laboratories in Europe and the U.S.; available technology in Rome, ca. 1930; journal literature; visitors to Rome; circumstances of move to Università di Palermo, 1936; work and facilities in Palermo; early failures of physicists to recognize fission; early uses of cyclotron; mathematics and nuclear physics in 1930s; models of the nucleus and experimental work; circumstances of move to University of California at Berkeley, 1938; experiment and theory in nuclear physics at Berkeley; work on radiochemistry; alteration of half-lives of beta-radioactive substances; detection equipment; effect of work at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory on nuclear physics; significance of nucleon-nucleon scattering experiments; entry into nuclear physics of students trained in technology during World War II; beginnings of high-energy physics; experimental physics and particle accelerators; fashions in physics; discovery of the antiproton; work considered personally satisfying. Also prominently mentioned are: Edoardo Amaldi, Felix Bloch, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Michael Faraday, Otto Robert Frisch, Guglielmo, Georg von Hevesy, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Tullio Levi-Cività, Lo Surdo, Ettore Majorana, Lise Meitner, Ida Noddack, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Carlo Perrier, Franco D. Rasetti, Ernest Rutherford, Glenn Seaborg, Elfriede Segrè, V. Volterra, Chien-Shiung Wu, Hideki Yukawa; Columbia University, and Purdue University. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk), 1898-1950 Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk) 1898-1950 300.0 Microfilm reel(s), 12,500 items on 300 microfilm reels; 107 recordings 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. American Philosophical Society Lauritsen, Thomas, 1915-1973. Oral history interview with Thomas Lauritsen, 1967 February 16. Lauritsen, Thomas, 1915-1973. Weiner, Charles. Richman, Barry, Oral history interview with Thomas Lauritsen, 1967 February 16. Sound recording: 1 5-inch reel (ca. 3.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 33 p. Early training as a physicist; quartz-fibre electrometer; high-voltage installations, above 200 kilovolts; high-voltage accelerator, especially Van de Graaff machines; cloud chamber; fission 1939; reminiscences of Niels Bohr; leaving Europe 1939; warwork at National Bureau of Standards 1940; rocket work 1940s; postwar rehabilitation of laboratory facilities; technological improvements after the war; learning nuclear physics after the war; nuclear spin; development of shell model; rotational model 1952; gamma-ray detection; changes in research styles; research plans for the present (1967). Also prominently mentioned are: Hans Albrecht Bethe, Jür̈gen K. Bg︣gild, Robert F. Christy, Eugene Feenberg, William Alfred Fowler, Otto Robert Frisch, Trevor Gardner, Raymond George Herb, Torben Huus, David Rittenhouse Inglis, J. H. D. Jensen, Donald W. Kerst, Dieter Kurath, Milton Stanley Livingston, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Robert Andrews Millikan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Herb Parkinson, Matthew Sands, Trump, Victor Frederick Weisskopf; Finsen Radiation Institute, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), Inyokern Project, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Niels Bohr Institutet, Philips Elektronik Industrie GmbH, United States Navy, and University of Wisconsin. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008, 1880-2008 Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008 1880-2008 150.0 Linear feet, Ca. 17,000 items There are correspondence, notebooks, reports, recordings, etc. of this award-winning physicist and pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. A student of Karl Herzfeld at Johns Hopkins University, John Archibald Wheeler studied nuclear fission with Neils Bohr. The numerous volumes of research notebooks in the collection, Wheeler's daily record of calculations, meetings attended and conversations held about his work, are of primary significance. Among other subjects, they cover physics, nucleonics, quantum electrodynamics, and relativity. The correspondence in the collection contains many personal evaluations of scientists (subject to restrictions on use), as well as Wheeler's contributions to promoting physics and scientific education and training in general. There are important series relating to his participation in the 1950s on the Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel of NATO, headed by Senator Henry M. Jackson, and his organizational work on the Joint Committee of the American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century. American Philosophical Society Arnold, William Archibald, 1904-. Correspondence with Richard Rhodes concerning Otto Frisch and the origin of the term nuclear fission, 1981. Arnold, William Archibald, 1904- Correspondence with Richard Rhodes concerning Otto Frisch and the origin of the term nuclear fission, 1981. 1 folder (7 p.) Correspondence between Arnold and Richard Rhodes, a writer and historian, in 1981 concerning Arnold's participation in the discussion with Otto Frisch regarding the naming of nuclear fission in 1938 at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. Also includes a questionnaire by Rhodes completed by Arnold concerning Frisch and his discovery. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. Nuclear history [sound recording] : voices of the past; compiled by Glenn Seaborg. Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954. Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904- Hahn, Otto, 1879-1968. McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907- Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937. Seaborg, Glenn Theodore, 1912-1999. Segrè, Emilio. Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940. American Institute of Physics. Nuclear history [sound recording] : voices of the past; compiled by Glenn Seaborg. 1 sound cassette : analog, mono. ; 4 in. Excerpts from speeches, lectures, etc. of some of the pioneers in nuclear history. The tape was probably complied sometime in the early - mid 1960s. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-. Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1967 May 3. Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904- Weiner, Charles. Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1967 May 3. Transcript, 44 pp. 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. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Waly, Adnan. Oral history interview with Adnan Waly 1990 November 12. Tennenbaum, Sacha, Waly, Adnan. Oral history interview with Adnan Waly 1990 November 12. Transcript: 39 p. Early education with Gustav Hertz. Work as a nuclear physicists for the German General Electric Company under Fritz Lange. Doctoral studies with Max von Laue. Use of natural electronic discharges to produce nuclear disintegration. Discovery of Rupp's fradulent evidence for positive electrons. Coverup of the incident by Ramsauer. Waly's anti-Nazi activities before the outbreak of war. Work with Cockcroft and Walton on sealing discharge tubes. Priority dispute about the discovery of fission by Lise Meitner, together with her nephew Otto Frisch, and Otto Hahn. Collaboration with Leo Szilard. Early work on biophysics and cancer treatment. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Medicus, Heinrich, 1918-. International Congress for Physics [motion picture] / photographed by Heinrich Medicus. Medicus, Heinrich, 1918- International Congress for Physics [motion picture] / photographed by Heinrich Medicus. 1949. 1 film reel (13 min.) : si., b&w ; 8 mm. Participants at International Congress of Physics, Como, Italy, and at other group activities including a banquet, boat ride, and cable car ride in the Alps to Plateau Rosa (3500 meters). Attendees, as they appear in the film, photographed by Medicus, include: Edoardo Amaldi, Gian Carlo Wick, Lew Kowarski, Leon Rosenfeld, Enrico Fermi, Christian M ller, Otto Frisch, Emilio Segrè, Wolfgang Pauli, Jiri Linhart, Edwin McMillan, Hans Jensen, and Freeman Dyson. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Tolansky, Samuel, 1926-1973 Tolansky, Samuel, 1907-1973, physicist Tolansky, Samuel 1926-1973 31 boxes, 1 packet English Senate House Library (University of London) American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Letters to Spencer Weart, director of the Center for History of Physics, 1975-1978. American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics) Letters to Spencer Weart, director of the Center for History of Physics, 1975-1978. 4 letters. The letter from Stephen Brush (1978) describes work of Shou Chin Wang, concentrating upon his interaction with Peter Debye and the paper published in Physikalische Zeitschrift in 1927. The letter from Otto Frisch (1975) is autobiographical in nature. Stanislaw Mrozowski (1976) explains his work with W. Opechowski on neutron separation during fission, also the 1939 rejection of their article on the subject by NATURE. The letter from Richard B. Roberts (1976). describes early work on neutron emission. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Amaldi, Edoardo. Oral history interview with Amaldi Edoardo, 1969 April 9 and 10. Amaldi, Edoardo. Weiner, Charles. Oral history interview with Amaldi Edoardo, 1969 April 9 and 10. Sound recordings: 1 5-inch sound reel (ca. 3.5 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 44 p. 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. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Gold, Thomas. Oral history interview with Thomas Gold, 1978 April 1. Gold, Thomas. Weart, Spencer R., 1942- British Broadcasting Corporation. Oral history interview with Thomas Gold, 1978 April 1. Transcript, 87 p. plus appendices. Childhood in Germany and family background; competitive spirit. War years; internment and war work on radar with Herman Bondi and Frederick Hoyle, 1942-1945. At University of Cambridge; development of theory of hearing and steady state theory; at Greenwich Observatory, 1952-1956; research on lunar surface and terrestrial dynamics; positions at Harvard and Cornell Universities; involvement with Arecibo Observatory; involvement with governmental agencies including National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Aeronautic and Space Organization (NASA); changes in government funding. Development and reception of steady state theory. Also contains a 29-page interview conducted by the BBC, and a 56-page appendix, The Pandit Nehru Election Campaign for Chancellor of University of Cambridge, 1950. Also prominently mentioned are: Georg von Békésy, Ken Bowles, Oscar Buneman, Arthur Clarke, George Darwin, Herbert Dingle, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Otto Robert Frisch, Bill Gordon, Fred Hoyle, Harold Jeffreys, E.C. Jordan, William Thomson Kelvin, Hyman Levy, Raymond Lyttleton, Malik, William Hunter McCrea, Charles W. McCutchen, Donald Howard Menzel, Walter Mondale, Gordon Pettengill, R.J. Pumphrey, J.A. Ratcliffe, Martin Ryle, Carl Sagan, R.W. Shaw, Harold Spencer-Jones, Carl Friedrich Weizsäcker, Richard van der Riet Woolley; Cornell University, Great Britain Admiralty, Rationalist Society, Skylab, Trinity College (University. Of Cambridge), University of Cambridge, and Zuoz College. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988. Oral history interview with Luis Alvarez, 1967 February 14 and 15. Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988. Richman, Barry, Weiner, Charles. Oral history interview with Luis Alvarez, 1967 February 14 and 15. Sound recordings: 2 7-inch sound reels (ca. 4.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 68 p. Early education in physics at University of Chicago in the 1930s; high-energy particle counter; discovery of positron; discovery of neutrons; neutron experiments; reminiscences of University of California, Berkeley; foundation support of research; 60-inch cyclotron; building cloud chambers; neutron spectroscopy; neutron time-of-flight; magnetic moment of the neutron; transuranium elements; announcement of fission; the Tizard Mission; war research work; building of a betatron; effect of war techniques on postwar research; cyclotron work, 1947; impressions of nuclear physics in 1966. Also prominently mentioned are: Philip Abelson, Carl David Anderson, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Felix Bloch, William Morrison Brobeck, Vannevar Bush, Winston Churchill, Jacob Clay, Arthur Holly Compton, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, Otto Robert Frisch, William W. Havens, William Alfred Higinbotham, J. Barton Hoag, Thomas Johnson, Charles Christian Lauritsen, Ernest O. Lawrence, Frederick Alexander Lindemann (Viscount Cherwell), Milton Stanley Livingston, Alfred Loomis, Edwin Mattison McMillan, Robert Andrews Millikan, Robert Sanderson Mulliken, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kenneth Pitzer, Harold Plumley, James Rainwater, Emilio Gino Segrè, Robert Serber, Arthur Snell; Columbia University, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Michael Reese Hospital, and Stanford University. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Papers and correspondence of Otto Robert Frisch, 1904-1979, 1899-1981 Papers and correspondence of Otto Robert Frisch, 1904-1979 1899-1981 70 boxes English German Trinity College Library, University of Cambridge Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-. Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1963 May 8. Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904- Kuhn, Thomas S. Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1963 May 8. Transcript, 12 pp. 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: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Fritz London, Karl Mueller, Peter Pringsheim, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Otto Stern, Hans Thirring, Otto Warburg; and Universität Wien. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library American Physical Society. Meeting (1967 : Washington, D.C.). Invited papers on the history of fission physics [sound recording] : 1967 April 27. American Physical Society. Meeting (1967 : Washington, D.C.) Anderson, Herbert Lawrence. Dunning, John R. 1907-1975. Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904- Seaborg, Glenn Theodore, 1912-1999. Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008. American Institute of Physics. Invited papers on the history of fission physics [sound recording] : 1967 April 27. 2 sound tape reels (2.5 hr.) : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in. Speakers include: O.R. Frisch - "How it All Began," J.A. Wheeler - "Mechanism of Fission," J.R. Dunning - "U-235-Key to Fission," H.L. Anderson - "Early Studies of the Fission Process," and G.T. Seaborg - "Chemistry and Fission." The session is moderated by L.A. Turner. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Boot, Henry Albert Howard, 1917-. Oral history interview with Henry Albert Howard Boot, 1977 August 9. Boot, Henry Albert Howard, 1917- Norberg, Arthur L. (Arthur Lawrence), 1938- Oral history interview with Henry Albert Howard Boot, 1977 August 9. 1 session.Transcript: 44 p. Family background; undergraduate and graduate study at University of Birmingham; interruption of graduate studies by World War II in 1938; work on pulsed-radar transmitter at Ventron; thesis rechannelled into classified research by Marcus Oliphant; state of knowledge of high-powered tubes at Birmingham; plans for the magnetron with John T. Randall; comparison of Klystron and magnetron; improvements on and production of the magnetron for war use; other war work at Birmingham; Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch working on the atom bomb; the cyclotron; principal scientific officer of the Royal Naval Science Service at Baldock beginning 1948; contact with scientists from other countries; trip to United States; industrial uses of the magnetron; patent with the Admiralty. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974. Oral history interview with Léon Rosenfeld, 1963 July 1 to 22. Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974. Kuhn, Thomas S., Heilbron, John L., Oral history interview with Léon Rosenfeld, 1963 July 1 to 22. Transcript, 63 p. 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. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968. Oral history interview with Lise Meitner, 1963 May 12. Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968. Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904- Kuhn, Thomas S., Oral history interview with Lise Meitner, 1963 May 12. Transcript, 21 p. 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: Max Abraham, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Ludwig Edvard Boltzmann, Max Born, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Emil Fischer, James Franck, Johannes Hans Wilhelm Geiger, Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Max Theodor Felix von Laue, Frederick Lindemann, Ernst Mach, Walther Nernst, Ida Noddack, Wilhelm Ostwald, Friedrich Paschen, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Karl Schwarzschild, Johannes Stark, Otto Stern, Wefelmeier, Carl Friedrich Weizsäcker, Wilhelm Wien; Universität Berlin, Solvay Congress, and Universität Wien. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library