Files of Ludwik Wertenstein, 1908-1944.

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...

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...

Wertenstein, Ludwik 1887-1945

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Physicist, collaborator of M. Sklodowska-Curie, prof. of Free Polish University, head of X-ray Laboratory of Warsaw Scientific Society, nuclear physics, popularization of science. From the description of Files of Ludwik Wertenstein, 1908-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79016798 ...

Bialobrzeski, Czeslaw.

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Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951

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Physicist (mathematical physics, atomic physics, theoretical physics, wave mechanics, quantum mechanics). On the mineralogy faculty at Georg-August Universität zu Göttingen (1893-1897); on the mathematics faculty at Technische Universität Clausthal (1897-1900); on the mechanics faculty at the Technische Hochschule zu Aachen (1900-1906); and on the physics faculty at Universität München from 1906. From the description of Papers, ("New" Sommerfeld Nachlass), ca. 1890-ca. 1950. (Un...

Infeld, Léopold, 1898-1968

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Physicist (theoretical physics; general theory of relativity; quantum mechanics; studies in Cracow (W. Natanson) and Berlin (M. von Laue); professor in Lwow; Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton, N. J. USA), 1936-1950; Toronto University, 1938-1940; Warsaw University, 1950-1968. Publications: Fondations of the New Field Theory, (Born, Infeld), 1934; The Gravitational Equations and the Problem of Motion (with A. Einstein and B. Hoffmann), 1938-1940; On the Motion of Bodies in General Relativ...

Planck, Max, 1858-1947

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Physicist Max Planck authored the quantum theory. From the guide to the Max Planck correspondence, 1919-1948, 1919-1948, (American Philosophical Society) German physicist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berlin-Grunewald, to Artur Neuberg, 1939 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872119 Max Planck was a physicist and the author of the quantum theory. Received Nobel prize in Physics (1918). Involvement with the Kaiser-Wilhelm Soci...

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 ...

Langevin, Paul, 1872-1946

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Physicist (Sonar science, molecular structure, magnetic theory, relativity) and administrator. On the physics faculty at Université de Paris (1898-1902); Collège de France (1902-1940); and Ecole de physique et chimie [industrielles] (1905-1926), director (1926-1940). From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77594568 ...

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...

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...

Broglie, Maurice de, 1875-1960

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