Scientific correspondence, 1900-1946 (bulk 1900-1938)

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Scientific correspondence, 1900-1946 (bulk 1900-1938)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80927762

Correspondence and manuscripts. The collection (bulk dates 1900-1938) offers a wealth of sources on early physics history, in particular, radium research and the life and personality of Stefan Meyer. It contains some 2300 items of correspondence with over 400 correspondents around the world, including 35 Nobel prize winners. Also contains 95 manuscripts of contributors from all over the world to a Festschrift on the occasion of Ludwig Boltzmann's 60th birthday. Correspondents include Ernest Rutherford, Frederick Soddy, William Ramsay, Otto Hahn, and Bertram Boltwood.

Ca. 2300 items.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Meyer, Stefan, 1872-1949

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Physicist. Secretary of the International Radium Standard Commission, Director of the Institute for Radium Research and Professor at the University of Vienna. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79917382 Physicist. First Austrian to carry through investigation in the field of radioactivity immediately after the discovery of radium. Meyer was director of International Radium-Standard Commission; and director of the Institute for Radium Research, the...

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 ...

Boltzmann, Ludwig, 1844-1906

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Austrian physicist. From the description of Papers, 1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79200205 ...

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, ...

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...