Papers, 1932-[ongoing].

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Papers, 1932-[ongoing].

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

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.

Approximately 200 files.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Cottrell, Alan, 1919-2012

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Gowing, Margaret

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Historian, born 1921; C.B.E., F.R.S., F.B.A., etc.; Professor of the History of Science, Oxford, 1973-1986. Historian in the U.K. Cabinet Office 1945-1959; Historian & Archivist of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority 1959-1966; Reader in Contemporary History, University of Kent, 1966-1972; Director of the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre 1972-1986. From the description of Papers, 1932-[ongoing]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80490086 ...

Oliphant, Mark, 1901-2000

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Kurti, Nicholas

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Born 1908. Died 1998. From the description of Oral history interview with Nicholas Kurti, 1968 September 11 and 22 November 1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78291593 Born 1908. From the description of Reflections of an amateur "historian of science," [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82391788 ...

Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-

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Peierls Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995

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Theoretical physics (quantum theory of solids of electro-magnetic fields and of the solid nucleus; World War II work on atomic energy). Affiliations include: 1925, Berlin University as student of physics; 1926 transferred to University of Munich, Department of Theoretical Physics (A. Sommerfeld); 1928 transferred to Leipzig University, Department of Theoretical Physics (W. Heisenberg); and in 1929 to the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (W. Pauli). 1929, Ph.D., Leipzig. Fall 1929 to Fall ...

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...