Correspondence, 1906-1937.

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934

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Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obta...

University of Manchester

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Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

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Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made tremendous contributions to his field, transforming accepted notions of atomic structure, helping to develop nuclear fission, and advocating for international cooperation in crafting responsible nuclear policy. Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1885 into a family that encouraged his academic pursuits. Christian Bohr, his father, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. Bohr credited his father for awakening hi...

Hevesy, Georg ˜vonœ 1885-1966

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Chemist (radioactivity, isotope separation). Associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen (1920-1926, 1934-1943); on the physical chemistry faculty at Universität Freiburg im Breisgau (1926-1935) and associate at the Institute for Research in Organic Chemistry from 1943. From the description of Lectures, 1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78354780 From the description of Lectures [microform], 1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83426747 ...

Geiger, Hans, 1882-

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Nuclear physicist, co-inventor of the "Geiger-Müller-Counter". From the description of Correspondence. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79125352 ...

Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946

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UC chemist. From the description of Gilbert Newton Lewis papers, 1904-1946. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 84653263 ...

Schuster, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1934

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Physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1875-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81640450 Educated at Genera, Owens College, Manchester, Heidelberg. Ph. D. Heidelberg. He was professor of Physics in the University of Manchester 1888-1907. F. R. S. 1879. Secretary of Royal Society 1912-1919. Foreign Secretary of Royal Society 1920-1924. Royal Medal 1893. Rumford Medal 1926. President of British Association 1915. Copley Medallist R. S. 1931. ...

Boyle, R. W. (Robert William), 1920-

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Pring, John N.

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Fajans, Kasimir, 1887-1975

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Physical chemist, director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich, professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan. From the description of Kasimir Fajans papers, 1912-1987. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80453897 From the description of Kasimir Fajans papers, 1912-1975. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422856 Major affiliations include: Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (1911-1917); Lu...

Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938

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George Ellery Hale was an astrophysicist. He was the organizer and director of the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1904-1923, and was honorary director until his death in 1938. His principal scientific researches were made in stellar spectroscopy. From the description of Papers, 1903-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82798019 From the description of Papers, 1882-1937. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523501...

Boltwood, Bertram Borden, 1870-1927

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Ph.D. from Yale 1897; opened a private laboratory in New Haven with Joseph Hyde Pratt and acted as consultant to industry, 1900-1906; began work on radioactivity in 1904; Yale professor of physics in 1906, professor of radiochemistry, 1910-1927. From the description of Bertram Borden Boltwood papers 1890-1932 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165927 Ph.D. from Yale 1897; opened a private laboratory in New Haven with Joseph Hyde Pratt and acted as co...

Hahn, Otto, 1879-1968

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German physical chemist. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84584649 From the description of Unidentified materials. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80453274 German radiochemist. From the description of Autograph statement unsigned (working draft) : [n.p.], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270508943 ...

Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937

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Ernest Rutherford was a British physicist. From the description of Correspondence, 1890-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465954 From the guide to the Ernest Rutherford correspondence, 1890-1937, 1890-1937, (American Philosophical Society) Ernest Rutherford was a physicist and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1904. From the description of Letters, 1904-1924, to Bertram Borden Boltwood. (American Philosophical Society Library). W...

Bragg, William Henry, 1862-1942

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Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. B. A. as 3rd Wrangler 1884. Professor at Adelaide University 1886-1908. Cavendish Professor at Leeds, 1909-1915. Quain Professor of Physics at University of London 1915-1923. Received Nobel Prize 1915 (with his son William Lawrence Bragg F. R. S. 1921). F. R. S. 1907. Rumford Medal 1907. Copley Medal 1930. C. B. E. 1917. K. B. E. 1920. O. M. 1931. Hughes Medal Royal Society 1931. President Royal Society 1935. Director of Royal Institution of Great Britain ...

Eve, A. S. (Arthur Stewart), 1862-1948

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Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967

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Physicist. Cockcroft died in 1967. From the description of Private office papers, 1939-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80180932 ...

Joly, John, 1857-1933

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Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940

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English physicist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Trinity Lodge, Cambridge, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1927 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572272 Physicist (cathode rays, atomic structure, electrons) and administrator. On the faculty at University of Cambridge (1884-1940): director, Cavendish Laboratory (1884-1918), physics faculty (1894-1919), and master of Trinity College (1918-1940); and on the natural philosophy faculty at the Royal Instituti...

Meyer, Stefan

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Robinson, Harold R. (Harold Raymond), 1939-

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Richardson, Owen Williams

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Owen Williams Richardson was a physicist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1910. From the description of Papers, 1895-1957. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122489530 ...

Marsden, Ernest, 1889-1970

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King, Louis V.

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Soddy, Frederick, 1877-1956

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Physical chemist; Fellow of the Royal Society and Nobel prize winner; Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Oxford, 1919-1936. Discoverer of isotopes. From the description of Papers, 1913-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84011697 Chemist. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1894-1895; Merton College, Oxford, 1896-1898; private research in Oxford, 1898-1899; Demonstrator, McGill University, Montreal and work with Rutherford on Atomic Disentegration Theory, ...

Chadwick, James, 1891-1974

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Chadwick (1891-1974) was Lyon Jones Professor of Physics, University of Liverpool, 1935-1948. From the description of Papers, ca. 1921-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78411798 From the description of Conversation with A. W. Merrison, 1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79016747 Physicist (1891-1974). From the description of Papers, 1940-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78630825 Died 1974. From the description of Oral histor...

Larmor, Joseph, 1857-1942

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Physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters to Lord Rayleigh, 1896-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155003828 Educated at Queen's College, Belfast and St. John's College Cambridge. Professor of natural philosophy, Queen's Colege Galway 1880-1885. Lecturer in mathematics, University of Cambridge 1885-1903. Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge 1903. F. R. S. 1892. Royal Medal 1915. Copley Medal 1921. Secretary of Royal Society 1901. M....

Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge, England)

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The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics of the University of Cambridge and part of the School of the Physical Sciences. From the guide to the Cavendish Laboratory: Experimental Notebooks, c. 1900-1934, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives) ...