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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83382713

Autograph collection, including signatures of many well and lesser-known physicists, including: Otto Hahn, James Franck, Richard Courant, and Max Born. There is also an 1833 manuscript by Wilhelm Weber relating to telegraph.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Franck, James, 1882-1964

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James Franck was born August 26, 1882 in Hamburg, Germany, where his Sephardic Jewish forebears had lived for over two hundred years [Box 20, folder 58 and Box 21, folder 1]. His father, Jacob Franck, was a banker who wanted his son to follow a business career in keeping with family tradition. From childhood on, however, James could imagine no other life but science. An X-ray photograph illustrates his fascination with new discoveries in physics. He had already read of Roentgen's X...

Born, Max, 1882-1970

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Physicist (solid state physics, quantum mechanics, lattice dynamics, wave functions, molecules). On the physics faculty at Universität Göttingen (1908-1914, 1921-1933); Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (1914-1919); and University of Edinburgh (1936-1956). From the description of Lecture notebooks, 1905-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79287462 From the description of Papers, ca. 1945-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77749891 From the description of P...

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 ...

Courant, Richard, 1888-1972

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Weber, Wilhelm Eduard, 1804-1891

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German physicist. Professor of physics at University of Göttingen (1831-1837), Leipzig (1843-1849); resumed Göttingen (1849). Established (with Gauss) measuring system of electricity. Discovered connection between electric and magnetic power. From the description of Lectures on electricity and magnetism. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80284625 Physicist. Professor of physics, University of Göttingen, 1831-1837; Leipzig, 1843-1849; resumed Göttingen in 1849. Established (...