Otto Robert Frisch was born 1 October 1904 in Vienna to Justinian and Auguste (née Meitner) Frisch. Justinian was a printer with a talent for painting, Auguste was a pianist whose sister Lise Meitner was a respected physicist. The family was large and close-knit and of Jewish heritage and the events of the Thirties and the Second World War meant many family members were forced to rebuild lives and careers on foreign soil. Frisch's father was briefly interned in Dachau before being released to work in Sweden.
Otto displayed an early talent for mathematics that evolved into an interest in physics, encouraged in part by his aunt. At the University of Vienna he studied the effects of electrons on salts under Karl Przibram, and obtained a DPhil in 1926. He then took a job in industry, working for an inventor whose firm supplied X-ray dosimeters, and after a year of this he was given a job in Berlin in the optics division of the Physikalisch Technische Reischsanstalt, where he worked from 1927 to 1930.
Frisch then moved on to Hamburg, where he worked with Otto Stern, well-known for his Stern-Gerlach experiment. Here he assisted Stern’s work on molecular beams and the diffraction of atoms by crystal surfaces. His Jewish heritage, however, meant that he was no longer able to work once the racial laws were passed in Germany in 1933. Stern found him a job for a year at Patrick Blackett’s laboratory at Birkbeck College, London, where he worked on artificial radioactivity, and while there he was invited by Niels Bohr to go to work at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen.
At the Institute Frisch worked on neutron physics, and while visiting his aunt in Stockholm over Christmas 1938 they studied Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman’s results of an experiment on neutron collision. Together they wrote a paper providing an explanation of the collision, with a corroborative experiment and suggested a name for the process: nuclear fission. In 1939, seeing that it was a matter of time before Denmark fell to the Germans, he accepted an invitation to become a lecturer at the University of Birmingham. While there he researched and wrote the important ‘Frisch-Peierls memorandum’, 'On the construction of a "super-bomb" based on a nuclear chain reaction in uranium', having realized that it would be possible to create a powerful explosion using a portable amount of uranium-235. At this, he was invited to work on the Maud Committee, and moved to Liverpool to work with James Chadwick on the ‘Tube Alloys’ programme. In 1943, after being naturalized as a British citizen, he moved with other British scientists to Los Alamos to work on the Manhattan Project, where he was head of the Critical Assembly Group and an eyewitness of the Trinity Test of an atomic bomb in July 1945.
After the war, Frisch spent a year and a half as head of the nuclear physics division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell before was offered the Jacksonian Chair of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge. In 1948 he became a Fellow of Trinity College. He married Ursula (Ulla) Blau in 1951, and they had two children. He became head of the Cavendish Laboratory in 1954. An abiding interest in instrumentation resulted in his invention of and investment in SWEEPNIK, a semi-automatic measuring machine designed for bubble chamber photographs. In 1969, he established Laser Scan Limited, the first company to take premises in Cambridge Science Park.
Frisch, who was known as Otto or Robert at different times in his life, played several musical instruments, chiefly the piano, on which he was proficient to recital standard. In later life he gave increasing time to music, regularly attending the Dartington School, and sometimes giving lectures there. He was an accomplished caricaturist as well. He spoke German, Danish, and English fluently, lecturing in German and Danish to the end of his life, but preferring to write in English. An ardent believer in the value of explaining science to the general public, he not only wrote books and articles on the subject, but appeared on many radio and television broadcasts over the years. He died in 1979 shortly after completing his autobiography, *What little I remember*.
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The papers consist of correspondence, research notes, writings, documents, publications, photographs, glass slides, films, and audiotapes documenting all stages of Otto Robert Frisch's life, and include Frisch's collection of the papers of his aunt, the physicist Lise Meitner. The 70 boxes of material are organised into seven series: Biographical and personal papers; Scientific research; Lectures and publications; Radio, television, films; Visits and conferences; Correspondence; and Non-print material.
Series A, Biographical and personal papers, is particularly full, incorporating material relating not only to Frisch's own career and interests including music (A.86-90) and sketching (A.84, 233-249), but also to Frisch’s extended family. These have historical interest as an example of the diaspora of the Thirties, and in the case of Lise Meitner a more specific scientific interest complementing other material deposited elsewhere. Lise Meitner's papers appear primarily in this series (A.134-211), and consist of correspondence, most of which is with Frisch and her younger brother Walter, as well as drafts of lectures, photographs, and miscellaneous papers. Several of her letters appear elsewhere in the collection (C.55, D.55, and F.15) and she is the subject of letters and articles throughout. Series F contains photocopies of letters written to her from Otto Hahn in December 1938 (F.52) and Series G includes photographs of her as well as an undated audiotape of a conversation between Frisch and Meitner (G.31).
Series B, Scientific research, includes notebooks, laboratory notes and calculations, publication drafts and correspondence. It presents a full record for the periods of work at Hamburg and Copenhagen, but the wartime work on the atomic bomb project is under-represented due to the security restrictions placed on the work. B.209-220 are documents relating to nuclear fission in the first half of 1939: correspondence between Frisch in Copenhagen and his aunt Lise Meitner in Sweden, correspondence between Frisch and Niels Bohr at Princeton, two drafts of Bohr's paper on the disintegration of heavy nuclei and correspondence between Frisch and *Nature*. The series also contains Frisch’s original eyewitness account of the Trinity Test (B.135), and a letter from Louis, identified as Louis Slotin by Sir Rudolf Peierls, written a month before Slotin's fatal accident (B.136A). Also present is an item added later by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre which provided the original cataloguing of the collection, a photocopy of the official report on Frisch's work at Los Alamos drawn up in August 1946 (A.58A). For the later period, the paucity of material relating to the Cavendish Laboratory reflects Frisch's lack of interest in administrative and committee work and his preference for relatively small-scale experimental projects such as his scanning device, and the various constructions and gadgets which he continued to devise for his Laser Scan company to the end of his life.
Series C, Lectures and publications, and D, Radio, television, films illustrate Frisch's expository skills in the written and the spoken word; he was greatly in demand as a lecturer, and the broadcasting services made regular calls on his multi-lingual gifts. There are drafts, correspondence, and printed material related to Frisch's lectures and publications, and drafts of scripts, correspondence, contracts and receipts related to Frisch's work in radio, television, and film.
Series E, Visits and conferences, varies in content from brief notices or programmes to substantial folders including correspondence on scientific matters, arrangements for lectures, publications, and travel, as well as visits to friends. It should be noted that many of the important meetings of the Thirties were held at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Copenhagen where he worked. E.64-76 contains material relating to the commemoration meeting for Bohr held at Copenhagen in 1963. The material in Section G, Non-print materials, provides a supplementary photographic record of meetings and conferences.
The correspondence in Series F dates mainly postdates 1947 and Frisch's establishment in Cambridge. Very little survives for 1943-1947 due to security restrictions at Los Alamos. Incoming scientific correspondence for the earlier period 1930-1943 is less well documented and was usually kept by Frisch with relevant research notes. Incoming personal letters for those years appear mainly in the 'Family correspondence and papers' in Series A. During the Thirties, Frisch kept copies of his outgoing letters in chronological folders where correspondence of all kinds and in several languages is juxtaposed. In a letter to Margaret Hope of 14 September 1936, Frisch explains 'I like to keep a duplicate of all my letters, it is like a diary for me'. This material remains in its original order, at B.39-42, B.73-81.
Series G, Non-print material, consists of photographs, film, glass plate slides, photographic slides, and audiotapes. The photographs include those by his aunt and noted photographer Lotte Meitner-Graf (G.10, 12, 18). The film includes those taken at Copenhagen and the Bohr’s holiday home Tisvilde in 1937 (G.21), and at post-war conferences (G.22). The glass plate slides were created to accompany lectures (G.23-28). There is also an audio recording of an undated conversation between Lise Meitner and Frisch (G.31).
Frisch was fluent in German, Danish, and English, and read other languages, and so the collection is multi-lingual as well. He continued to use Danish and German for lectures, speeches or correspondence to the end of his life; English became his language of choice for writing. Another feature of the collection is evidence of Frisch’s gift for sketching, particularly of caricatures of colleagues; there are some specific samples of his drawings, but others are scattered throughout the collection, on letters, conference programmes, and menus. Shortly before his death in 1979 Frisch published his autobiography *What little I remember* (Cambridge University Press), giving an informal account of his life mainly up to 1947. This has been drawn upon as a basis for dating material, and catalogue entries cite references in the book. The memoir by R.E. Peierls for the Royal Society of London, *Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society* (27, 1981) has been drawn upon and referred to in the catalogue as well.
Gift of Mrs. U. Frisch, via Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre, 1982. A supplemental gift of papers and correspondence from Mrs Frisch arrived in 1990 and has been catalogued here as A.226-251, B. 208-224, C.140-167, D.60-62, E.64-82, F.148-157, and G.32-35.
The current record was edited by Diana Smith in 2021.
The Papers of Lise Meitner, the main deposit of material relating to Lise Meitner's life and work, may be found at the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge.
This material is open for research unless otherwise stated.
This record was prepared using a more detailed finding aid produced by Jeannine Alton and Julia Latham-Jackson of the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre, reference number CSAC 87.5.82. The Supplementary catalogue produced by Peter Harper and Timothy E. Powell, NCUACS 31/7/91 was also used.
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This series consists of correspondence, diaries, writings, publications, drawings, and memorabilia related to Otto Frisch and to Lise Meitner. The material is arranged in five subseries: Biographical and autobiographical papers (A.1-7), Diaries and notebooks (A.8-32), Career and memorabilia (A.33-106), Family correspondence and papers (A.107-225), and Supplemental Papers given by Ulla Frisch (A.226-251). The Lise Meitner papers may be found in the penultimate group, A.134-211. For photographs, slides, tape-recordings, etc. of Frisch, his family and colleagues, see Series G.
A.1-7 includes material related to his autobiography *What little I remember*, as well as obituary tributes about Frisch.
Frisch made little distinction between the types of journal found at A.8 -32, Diaries and notebooks. In earlier years, he tended to use 'notebooks' in which he would draw up tables of days and weeks on some of the pages, thus creating a 'diary'. Later on, he used 'diaries' and made them serve for wider purposes than the usual day-to-day record. From about 1947 he often chose the 'Lefax' system which enabled him to keep several years' notes in one binder; see A.24-31, or, for less organised examples, A.12, A.13, A.22. The contents of all these documents are similar, though their proportions vary. They include experimental results, ideas for research, journals of visits, notes of conferences, meetings and lectures, personal jottings, memos and addresses. In his address books Frisch would use the thumb-index to suit his own purposes: thus 'I' may turn up 'Ideas', 'M' lead to `Money', etc. These books therefore supplement the scientific and technical material found in Series B as well as documenting Frisch's personal life. The material is presented as a chronological sequence so far as this is ascertainable and Frisch's methods of work allow.
In A.33-106 Career and memorabilia, A.86-90 relate to music, though it should be noted that there are many other references elsewhere, e.g., A.56, A.72, A.95 and in the general correspondence. A.91 to A.94 are indexed folders of letters of condolence from colleagues, relatives or friends containing reminiscences or information.
Most of A.107-225 Family correspondence and papers consists of correspondence, but there are other biographical items included. Many of the letters employ nicknames and diminutives as mode of address or signature; Lise Meitner normally signed herself 'T.L.' (= Tante Lise) when writing to Frisch. For convenience, the material has been divided among the Frisch, Meitner and Blau (Frisch's wife) families, and presented by alphabetical order of Christian name in order to avoid confusion arising from the married names of the female members. The letters from Frisch's father and mother (A.109-120) are almost all joint communications, sometimes also incorporating greetings and messages from other relations. The Lise Meitner papers, A.134-211, are further arranged as Biographical and personal papers (A.134-154), Notes and drafts (A.155-176), and Correspondence (A.177-211) The Notes and drafts, are all later works, dating from Lise Meitner's postwar periods in Sweden and Cambridge, with the exception of the brief items in A.155-157. The papers at A.219-225 are those related to the Blau family. Frisch married Ursula (Ulla) Blau in 1951 and they had two children. The letters they exchanged (A.221-225) contain information about conferences, scientific colleagues, and research projects as well as personal and family news.
The supplemental papers given by Ulla Frisch after the main group of papers, A.226-251, include Frisch's caricature drawings of scientific colleagues and others at committee meetings, conferences, and social occasions, and include those made at Los Alamos (A.233-249).
See also: A.251
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Memoir by R.E. Peierls: *Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society*, 27, 1981.
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Material relating to Frisch's memoirs, published under this title by Cambridge University Press, 1979.
A.3: Frisch's own notes.
A.4: Photocopy draft of chapter on Niels Bohr, with correspondence and comments from A. and E. Bohr, 1975-78.
A.5: Comments and information from others; includes letter from Frisch's landlady in Liverpool (1941-43). Review of book.
A.6: Brief correspondence re book with Faber and Faber, *New York Times*.
A.7: Copy of published book (given by Mrs. Frisch).
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Small black notebook, with diary entries dated 1926-27, of personal notes, drawings of apparatus, diagrams, calculations, etc., latest date 1929. Both ends of book used.
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Small black soft-cover notebook, very miscellaneous contents, includes brief diary entries dated 1928, notes on experiments, calculations, etc. Both ends of book used.
See *What little I remember*, pp.106-108.
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Small black notebook inscribed 'Gekauft 2.9.1936', includes diary entries November 1936-August 1938, with visits to Copenhagen, Sweden, Norway, addresses, notes on correspondents, drawings, calculations on 'Badewanne', etc. Both ends of book used.
See also: B.48, 'Badewanne, H.5' notebook; B.57, 'Berechnungen 1939' folder, and B.62-65, 'Badewanne 1' folder
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Black soft-cover notebook, includes diary entries 1939 for Frisch's journey to England, meetings in London, Cambridge and Birmingham, arrangements to come to Britain etc. July-August, drawings and calculations.
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A.12: Small red loose-leaf notebook, includes diary entries September-October 1943, notes of and for experiments, apparatus, calculations, etc.
A.13: Loose pages from a diary, some with various dates 1943, probably removed by Frisch from A.12. Similar content.
See also: E.108, Small red soft-cover notebook of miscellaneous material
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Small brown notebook, pages numbered 1-143 and with a brief MS index of topics on p. 1. Includes diary entries January-September 1945 (Trinity test, Hiroshima, Nagasaki are noted), notes of 'work to do', especially Frisch's 'dragon' project, personal memos. etc.
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Small brown notebook of miscellaneous personal and scientific notes, n.d. but c.1945. Both ends of book used.
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Small brown notebook, pages numbered 1-87 and with a brief MS index of topics on p.1.
Includes diary entries September 1945-May 1946, notes to 'Think About', calculations and diagrams, notes for Frisch's book *Meet the Atoms*, etc.
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Small black address-book with thumb index, used for addresses and also personal and scientific notes, e.g., α-rays under A, Dose (of radiation) under D, Ideas and Integrals under I, Money (records payments to parents 1946) under M, etc. n.d., c1945-46.
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Brown soft-cover notebook, includes notes and calculations some dated March 1945, continues with miscellaneous personal material re house and family (latest date 1955). Both ends of book used.
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Blue soft-cover notebook, mainly scientific notes and ideas for research, notes at meetings and conferences, latest date 1948, but work probably continues into 1950s. Both ends of book used, most of the material being at rear.
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Blue soft-cover diary 1947, entries mainly January-September.
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Blue binder inscribed on cover and spine 'Lefax Diary 19(47), 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53'.
Entries run 28 June 1947-24 December 1953, including arrival at Cambridge 1 October 1947 ('My name is on the door, my desk is clean."), etc.
Mainly an engagement diary.
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Green binder with miscellaneous pages of Lefax and other documents, in reverse chronological order (not exact), various dates 1947-53, mainly scientific material, notes of conferences, meetings, lectures and papers (e.g., Copenhagen conference September 1947), ideas for research, drawings, caricatures, etc.
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Loose pages from an exercise-book, tabulated to form a diary April-June 1950.
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Brown loose-leaf diary (Lefax pages) December 1953-August 1957, and miscellaneous following pages of scientific and personal notes.
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Brown leather wallet containing loose-leaf Lefax pages August 1957-April 1960, and miscellaneous following pages of scientific and personal notes, various dates 1957-61.
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Small brown spiral-bound notebook of very miscellaneous material, some dated 1958, 1961, but may begin earlier and continue later. Both ends of book used.
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Orange spiral-bound notebook inscribed 'O.R. Frisch c/o Kowarski', with miscellaneous notes of meetings, conference papers, research, some dated 1960, 1963 and related to work at CERN.
Book used from the back.
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Red binder inscribed 'Lefax diary for 1960, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65'.
Entries run April 1960-February 1966, with miscellaneous following pages of scientific and personal notes.
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Red binder inscribed on spine 'Diary 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970'.
Entries run February 1966-December 1970, with miscellaneous following pages of scientific and personal notes.
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Green binder inscribed on spine '1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977'.
Entries run December 1970-December 1977.
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Green binder, inscribed on spine '1978'.
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Small blue 'Répertoire', French address book, few entries, n.d., probably 1940s.
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Red notebook kept from 12 November 1904 to 3 May 1907, of Frisch's parents' notes of his progress as a baby.
At rear of book, miscellaneous mathematical calculations some dated 1921.
See *What little I remember*, p.4.
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Black soft-cover notebook of miscellaneous diary entries, school notes, etc., some in shorthand, 1918-19.
Both ends of book used (back cover lost); at rear of book are diagrams for chess and other games
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Purple exercise-book of diagrams, narratives and calculations, mainly on 4-dimensional bodies.
See *What little I remember*, pp.11-12.
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Sketchbook, mainly caricatures, but some watercolour landscapes dated 1921.
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A.38: Student record book 1922-26.
A.39: Identity card 1924.
A.40: 'Omnia Mea Heft 1', notes, calculations, diagrams, seminar notes, some dated 1921-22.
A.41: 'Omnia Mea Heft 2', similar material, 1922.
A.42: 'Zahlentheorie 1923', similar material. Both ends of book used.
A.43: Reports, certification of course of study for doctorate 1925-26.
A.44: D.Phil. Certificate, 1926.
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Miscellaneous correspondence August 1926-March 1927 re Frisch's career plans, applications for posts, etc.
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Correspondence and papers re arrangements for Frisch to work with C. Müller at Physikalisch Technische Reichsanstalt, Berlin, payment of stipend, etc. 1927.
Includes Frisch's ms. CV, and Müller's testimonial to him, 1930.
See also B.3-B.7.
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Frisch's certificate of baptism in evangelical reformed church, Vienna, 1927.
Letter re Frisch's grant from university authority in Hamburg to work with Stern, 1930.
Residence permit for Copenhagen, 1935.
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Correspondence re arrangements to come to Britain, visits to London, Cambridge, Birmingham, etc., offers of posts.
Correspondents include Blackett, Bragg, Cockcroft, Oliphant, and also Frisch's farewell exchange with Bohr, his CV, list of publications, etc.
There are typed duplicates of some of the letters at the back of the folder.
During the correspondence, Frisch refers to his friend F. Urbach and offers to cede his place to Urbach if only one was available.
(See also B.81, 'Letters 1939', and B.104, Correspondence: Simons - Urbach).
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Miscellaneous material re departure from Copenhagen and journey to Britain, shipping of personal effects, etc. Includes Christmas greetings signed by Bohr family, Lise Meitner and other members of Copenhagen Institute.
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The letter of appointment (25 July) defines the work as 'being supervised by a committee under the chairmanship of Professor Thomson on behalf of the Ministry of Aircraft Production'
Frisch arrived in Liverpool on 27 July (letter of 26 July includes a 'list of things taken with me to Liverpool' (equipment and materials).
A little additional correspondence re jobs is also included.
See *What little I remember*, p.139.
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Including Russian lessons, lecture to University Physical Society, recital to Merseyside Anglo-Polish Society, etc.
See *What little I remember*, p.136.
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Included here is a letter, 1975, from Frisch's landlady in Liverpool.
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His appointment as Temporary Senior Scientific Officer 'for service in the United States of America on Tube Alloys Research'.
A note in the original finding aid created by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre: We are grateful to Dr. J. White for permission to include this document and to quote from it.
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Photocopy of a letter about 'the activities of Dr. Peierls and Dr. Frisch' on the Los Alamos project, dated 6 August 1946 and declassified 7 April 1982. The letter describes Frisch's work as that of 'a group leader in the Experimental Physics Division carrying out basic experiments in nuclear, neutron and fission physics', and states that 'His extraordinary familiarity with nuclear theory as well as his exceptional experimental skill caused him to be of the greatest value to the atomic bomb experiment'.
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Miscellaneous items of biographical interest for Los Alamos period.
A.59: Includes correspondence re Frisch's desire to communicate with his parents, security restrictions, passes, etc.
A.60: Party invitations, programmes, humorous poems.
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Miscellaneous financial correspondence re Frisch's salary on appointment at Los Alamos, transfer of his account to Liverpool 1945, departure from U.S.A. 1946, etc.
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Mainly re offers of posts to Frisch, from Universities of Wisconsin and Saskatchewan, Imperial College London, Cornell, etc.
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See also: B.140, Correspondence re Frisch's move to Harwell, buildings, staff appointments, etc.
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Lease of house, salary statements, etc.
Included here is a letter 1975 re Frisch's time at Harwell.
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Royal Warrant, letters of congratulation (few survive).
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Correspondence April-May 1947, including enquiries and advice sought by Frisch, official letter offering Chair, Frisch's letter of resignation to Cockcroft at Harwell, his Cambridge M.A. certificate, letters of congratulation (few survive).
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A.69: Certificate, letters of congratulation A - K.
A.70: Letters of congratulation M - V.
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Invitations to address College societies, chiefly Trinity Mathematical Society, 1949-59.
Requests for advice and help with College music, recitals, etc., 1949-57.
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Including arrangements for Frisch to take his fiancée in to College, contributors to their wedding present, etc.
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Miscellaneous menus of Trinity occasions with caricatures by Frisch.
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in alphabetical order
No other material on committee service survives.
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Bus and postal services, etc.
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Including his own notes on his condition.
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Including material re Frisch's support for Gisela Lion, Lise Meitner's affairs, statements of expenditure, covenants, etc.
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Includes sketchbook from New Mexico.
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Mainly for 70th birthday 1974.
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Includes Birmingham, Los Alamos, Harwell, Cambridge.
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Miscellaneous correspondence re Summer School of Music, Dartington, which Frisch regularly attended and where he occasionally lectured.
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Frisch's own folder inscribed 'Acoustics'; miscellaneous notes, diagrams and material, probably assembled for course of lectures given at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, October term 1978 (includes some earlier material).
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A.91-94: Letters A - W
A.95: Unindexed letters, of more general nature, often referring to Frisch's gifts as a musician.
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Greetings and cards from various relations, early notes to parents, sketches and drawings, c.1905-17.
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Poems, invitations, etc.
See also A.106, 'Maturazeitung', 'Erste und letzte Nummer' of humorous journal to celebrate leaving school
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Envelope of miscellaneous correspondence, souvenirs, etc.
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Frisch was an editor and contributor.
See A.97, Miscellaneous items from school and university period and E.47 for 50th Anniversary celebrations.
Identified in the original Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre finding aid as Frisch's uncle, brother of Justinian.
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Frisch's uncle, brother of Justinian.
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Includes letters from Maria (Felix's wife)
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Certificates of education, doctorate, technical proficiency.
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Brochure re printing firm of Moriz Frisch (Frisch's grandfather) in which J. Frisch and other members of the family were employed.
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Miscellaneous early correspondence, mainly cards, letters, greetings from Frisch's parents.
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Miscellaneous correspondence, mainly cards, letters, greetings from Frisch's parents. Few letters survive.
For Frisch's letters home, see B.39-B.42, and B.73-B.81.
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'J. Frisch - Sweden 1938'. Frisch's original folder also inscribed 'Eltern', of correspondence and papers July-November 1938 re closure of the Bermann-Fischer firm in Vienna, attempts of J. Frisch to obtain a post in Britain, his internment in Dachau and eventual success in obtaining a labour permit to work with his previous firm in Sweden.
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Miscellaneous correspondence, mainly cards, letters, greetings from Frisch's parents, August-September 1938, kept separately by Frisch, mainly re attempts by J. Frisch to obtain work in publishing houses in Britain. Includes also letter re K. Lion.
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Letters, cards and cables, including note from Chadwick enclosing one of the letters, correspondence December with Society for the Protection of Science and Learning re renewed attempts by Frisch to bring his parents to Britain, and a little correspondence with other friends about the Frisch family.
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Letters, cards and cables, including various representations by Frisch to try to bring his parents to Britain (refused), and to send the sum of £10 when his father was temporarily unemployed. There are a few references to research projects.
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Letters and cables.
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Letters, cards and cables.
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Letters, cards and cables.
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Miscellaneous later correspondence, re move to Cambridge, etc. Includes letter from G. Bermann-Fischer (J. Frisch's former employer) on his death 1949, and correspondence 1953 re a translation of a novel 'Age of Thunder' projected by J. Frisch but left unfinished at his death.
Sister of Justinian, Frisch's aunt.
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1926, 1940, 1953-55.
Son of Martha Tausk.
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Son of Martha Tausk.
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1955, 1963-79
Children of Marius, grandchildren of Martha Tausk.
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Frisch's grandmother. Only one item survives (1923), but included here is a press-cutting of H. Meitner's death in 1924, listing her children and grandchildren. Also included is a photocopy press-cutting of the death of Philipp Meitner (husband of Hedwig, and Frisch's grandfather) headed 'Dr. Meitners letzte Schachpartie'; the death occurred on 9 December 1910.
m. Leo Frischauer
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Correspondence 1939-41. Includes a letter from Frisch to P.B. Moon 1941 asking him to get in touch with Frida Frischauer during his forthcoming journey to America.
(m. Leo Frischauer)
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(m. Leo Frischauer)
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m. Leo Frischauer
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Later correspondence 1970-79 with Leo Frischauer, Elena Frischauer and others.
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Fritz Meitner was an engineer who died in a mountaineering accident. Only one item (postcard, 1926) survives, and no material of his wife, Clarissa, but Frisch maintained correspondence with his son Johannes (Hanno) who settled in America until his death in 1974. The correspondence runs 1939 (1 letter only), 1953-73. There is also correspondence, 1974-77, with Richard Meitner (son of John Meitner, grandson of Fritz Meitner, a glass designer working in Holland).
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Correspondence with Gisela Lion 1939-40. Included here are a few early items 1905, 1907, 1920.
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1941-43, 1947, 1962
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Correspondence with and re Karl Lion, 1940-41. Includes CV, list of publications and Frisch's letters re internment and employment of K. Lion.
Correspondence from Frida Lion, 1940 (one letter only)
Correspondence from Ilse Lion 1940.
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Notes on geometry, some in shorthand, some dated 3.ix.99. Perhaps related to special coaching for entrance to Vienna University by Arthur Szarvasy (see Meitner's autobiographical talk 'Looking Back', Bulletin Atomic Scientists, 1964).
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Miscellaneous material re Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft and University of Berlin 1911-20. Includes appointment to work with Hahn, election as member of Institute, grant of title of 'Professor', agreement for new contract of appointment (1920).
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Miscellaneous items of biographical interest. Includes grant to Lise Meitner by Chemical Society (1913), assessment by Hahn of a patent claim (1913), ministerial congratulations on Lise Meitner's work (1915), copy of letter from Rutherford to Stefan Meyer (1915), etc.
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Miscellaneous items 1916-18, including travel document, notes, etc.
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Miscellaneous items 1920-28, including correspondence re residence permit of Elisabeth Schiemann, election as corresponding member, Academy of Sciences Göttingen, award of Ellen Richard Research Prize from U.S.A. (jointly with Ramart Lucas).
See also: F.115, correspondence, Schiemann - Schrödinger; and A.157, Lise Meitner, draft of 'American Association for Scientific Research for Women'.
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Miscellaneous items 1930s, re department, lectures, conferences, etc. Includes inventory of Lise Meitner's property as required of Jews, 1938.
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Award of prize by Swedish Vetenskapsakademiens (1945) and City of Vienna Prize (1947).
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Correspondence of Frisch and S. Eklund (Director-General, International Atomic Energy Authority) re Lise Meitner's settling in Britain, etc. 1959-79.
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Correspondence of Frisch and others on affairs of Lise Meitner, 1960-65.
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Correspondence of Frisch and others, mainly from prospective biographers of Lise Meitner requesting information, access to papers.
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Miscellaneous biographical articles, and obituary tributes 1958, 1968. Includes Frisch's correspondence with colleagues re Festschrift for Lise Meitner's 80th birthday 1958.
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Two articles by Frisch on Lise Meitner, 'The work of Lise Meitner', 10 pp. typescript with a note 'Written for Max Born at his request; he said he was planning to propose Lise Meitner for the Nobel prize. I don't know if he did; and if so, whether he used this draft'.
'Nuclear Pioneer: Lise Meitner', 8 pp. typescript, 1978.
See also C.74, 'Through the eyes of a scientist', E.51-52, Visit to the U.S.A.
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Includes two early notebooks of poems, humorous poems for celebrations in Bohr's laboratory, etc. (in various hands).
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Envelope of photographs.
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Envelope of invitations, faire-part, etc. Various dates.
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Miscellaneous printed material, scientific and personal, various dates.
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Shorter unidentified material.
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Humorous poem (perhaps not in her hand) on protactinium (refers to Hahn's and Meitner's work, see Frisch, *Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society*, 16, 1970, p.407), 1919.
Humorous poem 1920, related to visit by Franck.
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Heavily corrected MS draft, headed 'American Association for Scientific Research for Women', 1929, probably related to award of Ellen Richards prize.
See also: A.138, Lise Meitner miscellaneous papers
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Pp. 4-6 only of typescript and MS draft. n.d., latest reference 1955.
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12 pp. typescript and MS, n.d., 1950s.
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21 pp., heavily corrected typescript. n.d., 1950s.
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'Geschichte der Erde', slide lecture
15 pp. typescript and MS
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3 pp. MS note on W. Heitler and his work. n.d., after 1962.
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MS notes, and 5 pp. MS draft on Sofja Kowalevska (an early woman professor of mathematics at Stockholm in the 1880s). n.d., c.1950 (see letter to Lotte Meitner-Graf, 28 March 1950 in A.198).
See also A.198, Lise Meitner correspondence with W. Meitner
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5 pp. heavily-corrected MS draft on history of atomic physics, with corrected proof of article 'Wege und Irrwege zur Kernenergie' using similar material.
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3 pp. MS draft on atomic energy, n.d.
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pps. 14-18 of MS draft of a historical paper, mainly on work of Lee and Yang.
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Autobiographical talk on '50 years of physics', given in Vienna, 1963.
Notes for paper and slides, 17 pp. MS draft (lacks pp. 13, 15, 16).
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All with different pagination and corrections.
A.169: Heavily corrected and headed 'Wiener Vortrag 1962'. Draft of lecture
A.170: Draft of a lecture
A.171: Draft of lecture
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Published in *Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists*, November 1964.
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1 p. typescript note contributed to series run by Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag, November 1964.
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4 pp. heavily corrected typescript and MS draft. In English.
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In original folder 'Handgeschriebene Manuskripte'.
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Atanaskovic, G.
(Schoolfriend of Walter Meitner.)
Barany, H.
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These are personal and scientific letters and cards. A few of Frisch's replies are included; others, for the 1930s, appear in Series B.
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These are personal and scientific letters and cards. A few of Frisch's replies are included; others, for the 1930s, appear in Series B.
See also: B.39, 'R. Frisch Eigene Briefe bis Oct. 1933' folder.
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These are personal and scientific letters and cards. A few of Frisch's replies are included; others, for the 1930s, appear in Series B.
Includes references to Frisch's parents' move to Sweden.
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These are personal and scientific letters and cards. A few of Frisch's replies are included; others, for the 1930s, appear in Series B.
Mainly scientific, on fission research and papers but also re journeys to Britain.
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These are personal and scientific letters and cards. A few of Frisch's replies are included; others, for the 1930s, appear in Series B.
Includes further correspondence re possibility of Lise Meitner coming to Britain, and also re text of forthcoming publication and alterations proposed by Bohr (see also B.97).
See also: B.97, Correspondence: N. Bohr.
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These are personal and scientific letters and cards. A few of Frisch's replies are included.
Lise Meitner's letter of 23 May gives an account of the German invasion of Denmark and its impact on Niels Bohr's laboratory where she was visiting at the time.
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These are personal and scientific letters and cards. A few of Frisch's replies are included.
Several letters refer to the constraints placed on Lise Meitner's research by conditions in Siegbahn's institute, and also to her attempts to send money to assist refugee relatives and friends.
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These are personal and scientific letters and cards. A few of Frisch's replies are included.
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These are personal and scientific letters and cards. A few of Frisch's replies are included.
Miscellaneous later letters and cards, 1952, 1964.
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Frischauer, F. 1963
Glum, F. 1963
Hahn, O. 1953
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Includes copies of opening speech at physics conference 1933, and of radio talk on work of Planck, 1957.
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Levy, A. 1951
Lion, G. 1963
Meitner, A. 1903. Card only
Meitner, F. 1909. Card only
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed 'Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed 'Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
Letters of 26 March 1942 and 19 November 1943 refer to Lise Meitner's isolation in Siegbahn's institute and in Copenhagen and her regret at not having stayed in Britain in 1939.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed 'Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
See also: A.164, Lise Meitner notes and draft of article about Sofja Kowalevska
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Letters and cards, addressed (sometimes jointly) to Walter Meitner (youngest of the Meitner family) and Lotte Graf whom he married and who practised as an internationally famous photographer under the name Meitner-Graf.
Most of the letters are signed `Wuzerl'.
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Schoffer, H. 1962
Schrödinger, A. 1962
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Letters to Frisch from Lola and Rudolf Allers, with carbon-copies of his letters to them.
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Letters to Frisch from Ulrich and Christel Allers, with carbon-copies of his letters to them.
Ulrich Allers was addressed as 'Steve' in later years; he died in 1974. The correspondence is mainly about family matters and music, and includes references to Lise Meitner's health and estate.
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Includes correspondence re Walter Meitner's internment, Frisch's visit to him, and his release.
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Includes a letter from Bertha Graf.
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Includes recommendations for posts for Walter Meitner 1950 and later exchanges with Lotte Meitner-Graf.
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Mainly re death of Lotte Meitner-Graf in 1973 and matters arising.
Includes obituary notice (by Frisch), letters of condolence, suggestions for volume of selected photographs, 'Lottes Böches Liste' and later correspondence with son (Philip, formerly Franz) and his family.
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Helga Blau (mother of Ulla)
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Kurt Blau (brother of Ulla)
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Includes a little earlier material
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Includes one written by George Winter (A228).
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For the Memorial Service, Trinity College Cambridge, 3 November 1979. Order of service; letter of appreciation; remarks by Sir Brian Pippard.
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Includes letters from Paul Dirac, the Institute of Physics, Laser-Scan Laboratories Limited, R. Lüst, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the Royal Society, and Lord Todd.
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Includes some later caricatures dated 1950. Those identified by Frisch are 'Prof. George Placzek', 'Oppenheim?', 'Gamov? Mark Oliphant?', 'Author of the Black Cloud [F. Hoyle]'.
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Caricatures identified by Frisch are 'Lew Kowarski', 'Rudi Peierls?', 'Hans Staub', 'Self portrait?', 'Fermi'.
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Only one of the caricatures is identified by Frisch, as 'Pauli'.
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Includes sketch of Frisch by Dame Ngaio Marsh (Trinity College Cambridge Ladies' Night 1966).
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'Lord Adrian', 'Barenboim', 'Horace Barlow', 'Beethoven', 'Hans Bethe', 'Bessikovitch', 'Sir Hermann Bondi', 'Aage Bohr', 'Bragg'.
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'Gallacher', 'von Hevesy', 'Janossy Budapest 1971', 'Sir Harold Jeffries', 'Frau Prof. Bertha Karlik?', 'H. Kopfermann 1955'.
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'Prof. Littlewood', 'John Manley', Prof. [F. G.] Mann', 'Leonard Miall', 'Prof. Joseph Mitchell', 'Prof. P. B. and Lorna Moon Sep. 1974'.
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'Radzinovitch?', 'Prof. J. Rotblat', 'David Shoenberg', 'George Trevelyan', 'Prof. Wisdom', 'Vicky Weisskopf', 'Dennis Wilkinson'.
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'George Trevelian', 'Tommy Gold', 'Lord Adrian 1955', 'Hermann Bondi' (photocopy).
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Publication on the technical aspects of visible speech.
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The cover photograph shows the busts of Einstein, Hahn, Lise Meitner and von Laue at a memorial celebration of the 100th anniversary of their births. Frisch is one of those shown admiring the busts.
See also Photograph of Frisch at memorial celebration of 100th anniversary of the births of Einstein, Hahn, von Laue and Meitner, Berlin, G.32
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This series consists of notebooks, laboratory notes, observations and working papers, drafts for publications, and correspondence. The material is arranged into ten subseries indicating the locations of the various laboratories, institutions and universities at which Frisch worked, in chronological order: Vienna; Berlin; Hamburg; Birkbeck College, London; Copenhagen; Birmingham; Liverpool; Los Alamos; Harwell; and Cambridge. A supplemental subseries has been added consisting of papers given by Ulla Frisch after the main body of papers.
Several of the diaries and notebooks in A.8-32 also contain some scientific information and should be consulted as supplementary sources.
The first two subseries are small: Vienna, B.1-2 and Berlin, B.3-7. For material concerning Frisch's appointment at Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR), see A.46, Correspondence and papers re arrangements to work with C. Müller.
The third subseries, Hamburg, B.8-42, dates from Frisch's work as assistant to Otto Stern (see *What little I remember*, pp. 41-56). See F. 123 for Stern's acknowledgement of Frisch's contribution to the work on molecular beams. The outgoing correspondence in B.39 - B.42, as well as B.73 - B.81 dates from 1930 - July 1939. These letters follow Frisch's own chronological order and includes personal and family as well as scientific letters.
The fourth subseries, Birkbeck College, London, B.43 consists of correspondence from 1943.
The fifth subseries, Copenhagen, B.44-94 dates from Frisch's work at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, directed by Niels Bohr (see *What little I remember*, pp. 81-119). The letters at B.73-81 are, like B.39-42, Frisch's carbons, in date order, of his outgoing letters both personal and scientific. The item numbers 83-94 in this subseries have not been allocated, and do not represent missing items. See also B.208, part of the supplemental papers supplied by Ulla Frisch.
Birmingham, B.95-104, is comprised almost entirely of correspondence. These are almost wholly concerned with research projects. Unlike the previous correspondence files, they may include both incoming and outgoing letters. For personal material relating to Frisch's appointment at Birmingham, departure from Copenhagen and settlement in Britain, see A.11, A.48-53. See also B.209-221, part of the supplemental papers supplied by Ulla Frisch.
Liverpool, B.105-131, includes research reports on nuclear projects, B.109-116, and correspondence, B.117-131, which are almost wholly concerned with research projects, and include incoming and outgoing letters. For material relating to Frisch's appointment at Liverpool, see A.55.
Virtually no material survives for Los Alamos, B.132-136A, because of the strict security restrictions enforced on all personnel. For personal material relating to Frisch's service at Los Alamos, see A.58-63 and also A.12-15. The subseries does include a letter from Louis, identified as Louis Slotin by Sir Rudolf Peierls, written a month before Slotin's fatal accident (B.136A).
The ninth subseries is Harwell, B.137-142. For personal material relating to Frisch's period at Harwell, see A.64, A.65. See also B.222, part of the supplemental papers supplied by Ulla Frisch.
The subseries Cambridge, B.143-B.207, is divided into materials relating to the Cavendish Laboratory (B.143-183) and Frisch's company Laser Scan Limited, B.184-207. The Cavendish Laboratory is further subdivided into Notebooks and research notes, B.143-152, Lectures, B.153.175, and Correspondence, B.176-183. The lectures are arranged in chronological order as far as possible. The majority are graduate and undergraduate lectures given at Cambridge University, but see B.167-169 for lectures as visiting scientist at CERN 1967. Almost all the work is in Frisch's hand and is rarely written up as a narrative. The Laser Scan Limited materials are further subdivided into Notebooks and research notes, B.184-196, Publications and manuals, B.197-200, and Correspondence, B.201-207. The Notebooks and research notes include Frisch's later miscellaneous projects related to the company, as well as the original SWEEPNIK material. There are also some SWEEPNIK notes in B.143, 'ORF 18', hard-cover notebook. The correspondence includes Frisch's folder of material relating to the history of Laser Scan (B.201-205), with notes, drawings, and correspondence. See also B.223-224, part of the supplemental papers supplied by Ulla Frisch.
The last subseries, B.208-224, consists of supplemental material given by Ulla Frisch after the main body of papers arrived. These documents relate to nuclear fission in the first half of 1939: correspondence between Frisch and Lise Meitner, correspondence between Frisch and Niels Bohr, two drafts of Bohr's paper on the disintegration of heavy nuclei and correspondence between Frisch and *Nature*.
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1 p. MS notes, and a printed leaflet, n.d.
Created while in Vienna.
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1 p. MS notes, and letter re patenting, 1924.
Created while in Vienna.
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Notes, calculations, diagrams of work at Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin, and also of colloquia at the university.
The material runs 15.XI.27 to 9.IV.1929.
See also A.46, Correspondence and papers re arrangements to work with C. Müller.
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Black hard-covered looseleaf notebook (many loose pages).
Notes, calculations, diagrams of work at Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin, 9.1.29. - 19.6.29.
Bibliographical references continue to 1931.
See also A.46, Correspondence and papers re arrangements to work with C. Müller.
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B.5: Calculations by Frisch, photographs, 'Ueber die spektrale Durchlässigkeit von Tauschichten', 3 pp. research notes or draft for paper.
B.6: Correspondence re apparatus, 1929. Correspondence with C. Müller re research and patents, 1929-30.
B.7: Correspondence re payment of Frisch's research grant, 1929. Miscellaneous items: CV by Frisch up to and including his work with Müller; timetable of laboratory visits March 1929.
Created while at Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin.
See also: A.46, Correspondence and papers re arrangements to work with C. Müller.
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Sequence of 22 dated notebooks of calculations and experimental results kept while in Hamburg. Not all of the notes are in Frisch's hand. Some have a descriptive note by Frisch on the cover.
B.8: 18.VII - 7.VIII.1930
B.9: 11.VIII - 27.VIII.1930
B.10: 28.VIII - 9.XII.1930 and 1931. (Last page has notes dated January 1931)
B.11: 10.XII.30–14.I.31
B.12: 14.I.1931–6.II.1931
B.13: 6.II.1931–20.II.1931
B.14: 20.II.1931. (Only few pages used)
B.15: 14.IV.1931–8.V.1931
B.16: 8 Mai 1931–10 Juni 1931
B.17: 10 Juni 31–22 Juni 1931. (With note by Frisch 'Neuer 2-Kristall-App.')
B.18: 22 Juni - 2 Juli 1931(With note by Frisch '2-Kr.App.')
B.19: 2 Juli - 15 Juli 1931 (With note by Frisch '2-Kr.App.')
B.20: 15 Juli - 23 Nov 1931 (With note by Frisch '2 Kr.App (H2). ab 5 Nov. Halbkugel')
B.21: 24 Nov - 1 Dez 1931 (With note by Frisch 'Halbkugel')
B.22: 1 Dez - 9 Dez 1931 (With note by Frisch 'Halbkugel')
B.23: 11 Dez 1931–8 Febr. 1932 (With note by Frisch 'Halbkugel Refl.App.')
B.24: 9 Febr - 22 Febr 1932 (With note by Frisch 'Refl.App.')
B.25: 22 Febr. - 18 März 1932 (With note by Frisch 'Refl.App,; ab 18 wieder Beng. App.')
B.26: 18 März - 30 März 1932
B.27: 30 März - 1 April 1932; 14 Jan. - 20 Jan. 1933
B.28: 20 Jan. 1933–1 Febr. 1933
B.29: 1 Febr (Last experiment dated 3.11.1933)
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In Frisch's hand, with a note 'Na-Röckert', dated 9.2.1933. Last experiment dated 28.7.33.
Kept while in Hamburg.
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In Frisch's hand, dated 24.3.33. Last experiment dated 5.4.33. Kept while in Hamburg.
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In Frisch's hand, dated 22.6.33. Last experiment dated 5.8.33. See B.33-37 for other work on 'Dellen', and *What little I remember*, p.53, re this last work at Hamburg before being obliged to leave Germany.
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Dellen= depressions, in molecular beams. Notes dating from time in Hamburg.
D.33: 1931-1933. Graphs and observations of molecular beams in various conditions; miscellaneous bundles of material in Frisch's order, and some loose pages. Various dates 1931-33. In original folder.
D.34: Similar material, but undated.
D.35: Miscellaneous MS drawings of apparatus, graphs, calculations, etc., probably for collaborative paper or papers by Frisch and Stern.
D.36: 1933. 'Berechnung der Impulsmomente der Beugungsdellen, austretender Strahl (Ofenfest)' 2 sets of calculations so titled, kept separately with miscellaneous graphs, and a letter by Frisch on his results, August 1933 (addressee unknown). Also included here is a CV drawn up by Frisch c. 1933 to include his work with Stern at Hamburg.
D.37: 1933. Typescript and MS draft of paper by Frisch and Stern 'Anomalien bei der Reflexion und Beugung von Molekularstrahlen an Kristallspaltflächen II' (Z. Physik. 84, 1933). Also included are proof with MS corrections and a little editorial correspondence.
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Two letters only, on patent rights, and on equipment.
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The letters are Frisch's carbons only, in date order; those from 22 January-27 October 1930 are sent from Berlin, those from 11 November - 7 August 1933 are from Hamburg, and there is one letter, 28 September 1933, from Copenhagen immediately before Frisch's departure for England.
The correspondence constitutes a record of all Frisch's affairs, including family letters, research and publications, personal friends, etc. The letters to Frisch's parents ('Schnumpunzel' and 'Bavitschkerl') and to Lise Meitner ('Tanterl') should be consulted in association with the incoming family correspondence in Series A.
Identifiable correspondents are indexed, but many are addressed either by a nickname or in formal terms such as 'Herr Professor', 'Herr Kollege'.
B.39: January-December 1930
B.40: January-December 1931. Includes a note (October 1931) on 'Beugung von Protonenwellen'.
B.41: January-December 1932 (first letter wrongly dated 1931)
B.42: January-September 1933. Includes references to the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship awarded to Frisch to study in Rome with Fermi and which he was unable to take up for political reasons, and to his forthcoming journey to England to work at Birkbeck College, London, with Blackett. The last letter (28 September) is sent from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, where he was waiting for a passage to England.
See also A.112, Justinian and Auguste Frisch correspondence and A.179, Lise Meitner correspondence with O. R. Frisch.
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Letters re publications, research, etc. Includes letter from L. Szilard (August) re experiments using Frisch's radiation counter, and from G. Mönch (October) re his cloud-chamber.
Dating from time at Birkbeck College.
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In Danish and German, with a note 'Kopenhagen Augekommen 13.10.34.' The experiments run 20.10.34. to 20.6.35.
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Dated 29.3.1936-17.8.1936. Pages are numbered by Frisch 1-93 with an index inside front cover.
Notebook kept while in Copenhagen.
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Dated '7 Dez. 36' Pages are numbered 1-93, and the material (not all in Frisch's hand) is dated 7 December 1936 to 21 June 1937.
Notebook kept while in Copenhagen.
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Notebook dated 13.3 [1937] - 28.5.37.
Pages are numbered 1-85; not all the material is in Frisch's hand.
Notebook kept while in Copenhagen.
See also B.57, 'Berechnungen 1939'
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Material (not all in Frisch's hand) runs 1-22 June 1937.
Notebook kept while in Copenhagen.
See also: A.10, Diary/notebook, 1936-1938; B.57, 'Berechnungen 1939' folder; and B.62-65, 'Badewanne 1' folder for other material on 'Badewanne' work.
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Patent sent December 1934, registered June 1935. Method of polonium production.
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Miscellaneous humorous verses, songs, caricatures, many connected with work and personalities at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and including the 'Journal of Jocular Physics' produced as part of the celebration of Niels Bohr's 50th birthday in 1935 (see *What little I remember*, p.98).
The 'Journal' contains an article by Frisch and Placzek 'Zur Frage der Messbarkeit des Landau'schen Schönheitskoeffizienten'.
See B.82, Humorous verses, songs, caricatures, parodies, etc., for similar material.
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Correspondence from manufacturers of apparatus and equipment, and miscellaneous technical suppliers' catalogues.
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Contents of a substantial folder so inscribed. The material is very diverse, and not all in Frisch's hand; it includes notes on the literature, drafts for papers or reports, drawings of apparatus, calculations and results, ideas for experiments and techniques, etc.
Notes and sequences clipped together by Frisch have been preserved as such.
B.52: Dated sequences of notes, 1932-1937.
Includes:
'Ablenkung von Mol. Str. in mag. Feld'. 3 pp. sequence, kept with other notes on magnetron, B-recoil, etc., some dated October 1932 (during Frisch's period in Stern's laboratory at Hamburg).
Notes and draft for short talk on work of Stern's laboratory (on proton, and on diffraction anomalies). In English, possibly for talk at Birkbeck, or at Copenhagen. c.1933-34.
Sequence of notes, various dates September-October 1936, on 'Schrägheits-korrektur', neutrons, etc.
Miscellaneous notes, various dates January-February 1937
Miscellaneous bibliographical references, 1937.
All these items are in Frisch's original folder, which also bears notes and diagrams on the front cover.
B.53: Undated sequences of notes.
Includes:
'Isotopentrennung', 3 pp.
'Dirac, Quantenmechanik', 6 pp.
'Plattenelektrometer', 2 pp.
'Courant-Hilbert', 3 pp
'Schwankungen eines Zählers mit endlichen Auflösungsvermögen', 7 pp. notes, calculations, diagrams.
'Scattering of protons in hydrogen', 4 pp. draft not in Frisch's hand, but kept with notes and diagrams by him.
'Fokussierung des Cyclotrons', 8 pp. draft not in Frisch's hand, perhaps by H. Jehle.
B.54: Shorter notes by Frisch, titled but not dated, on various research ideas.
B.55: Undated and unidentified notes, diagrams, etc., almost all by Frisch, but includes some material in other hands.
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Contents of a folder so described. Includes notes and calculations, various dates December 1937-July 1938 (notes of December 1937 are headed 'Wien'), and diagrams chiefly May 1938.
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Notes, calculations and diagrams, some dated 1937. 1 p. note April 1937 is headed 'Badewanne'.
See A.10 (Diary/notebook), B.47 ('Badewanne, H.4' notebook), B.48 ('Badewanne, H.5' notebook), B.62-B.65 ('Badewanne 1' folder)
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1 p. dated December 1936.
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'Laufendes' [Current].
Includes correspondence re equipment for laboratory 1937, notes on theories of Möller (1937), Schrödinger (n.d.), Auger (1938), notes on the literature, miscellaneous notes, calculations, diagrams.
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Similar material to 'Laufendes' folder (item 59) some dated 1937; includes 1 p. table of elements with a note 'Kopenhagen. (Kopfermann) Sept. 1933', and a letter re magnet for laboratory 1935.
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Some items dated 1937 (not all in Frisch's hand).
Included here is a heavily-corrected proof of 'A method of measuring the magnetic moment of free neutrons', by Frisch, Halban and Koch (*Nature*, 139, 1937).
Also included here is a letter January 1938 to Bohr from S. Goudsmit expressing interest in the results and suggestions for further research.
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Contents of a substantial folder so described.
The term 'Bathtub' was used by Frisch to describe the work on slow neutrons in hydrogenous substances. There is no other surviving folder with this title but there are two notebooks (B.47, B.48) to which reference is occasionally made in headings to diagrams, etc.
Notes, drafts, diagrams and calculations, related to work on slow neutron capture and in particular to 'The slowing-down and capture of neutrons in hydrogenous substances', by Frisch, Halban and Koch (Mat.-fys. Medd., K. Dansk Vid. Selsk., 15, 1937.
B.62: Heavily-corrected 7 pp. draft for paper. Miscellaneous pages of extensive MS notes and narrative, by Frisch and another, some headed 'Badewanne' and with various dates 1937. Pages run 1-42, but with many omissions. These items are in the original folder.
B.63: Continuing sequence of notes, paginated 51-57. Miscellaneous curves and diagrams, all by Frisch, a few dated 1937.
B.64: Figures, tables, shorter drafts, some headed 'Badewanne' and with dates 1937.
B.65: Shorter unidentified notes and diagrams. Brief correspondence re results, 1937.
See also: A.10, Diary/notebook 1936-1938; B.57, 'Berechnungen 1939'; B.78, Correspondence, 1937.
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B.66: 'A Pentode Vacuum Tube Scale-of-Two Circuit'. 4 pp. typescript and 1 p. figures for paper by Frisch dated July 1938. (Not listed in bibliography.) Included here is a request to reproduce the scale of two circuit in a book on cosmic rays, 1944.
B.67: Dated sequences of notes and figures, on circuits (1937), cyclotron (June-September 1938), Rabi's resonance method (4 pp. September 1938), etc.
B.68: MS and typescript note on Fermi and leading figures in nuclear physics, c.1938 (in Danish). Report on 'High frequency systems for the Cyclotron', by Dunning, Anderson, Booth and Glasoe, August 1938.
B.69: Drawings and sketches for apparatus (not all in Frisch's hand).
B.70: Miscellaneous shorter notes and figures by Frisch.
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Correspondence June-August 1938 from L.A. Turner (working at Copenhagen Institute while on leave from Princeton) re research and proposed publications.
Includes draft MSS of collaborative papers by Frisch and Turner, 'The Isomers of Br80' and 'Isomers of stable nuclei'. (Not listed in bibliography.)
Also enclosed is a letter of comment from M.L. Pool.
Published
Two undated drafts for papers:
'Width of Neutron Capture Levels', 2 pp. only.
'Energy Distribution of Uranium Fission Fragments', 3 pp.
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B.73: October-December 1933. (In original folder.)
B.74: January-September 1934. Includes references to Frisch's career plans and arrangements for his move to Copenhagen.
B.75: October-December 1934. Includes letters of thanks (in English) to Academic Assistance Council, and to Mrs. Blackett for help during visit to Birkbeck.
See also: A.112, Justinian and Auguste Frisch correspondence, 1930s.
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'Briefe'
See also: A.112, Justinian and Auguste Frisch correspondence, 1930s.
Published
Almost entirely on research projects, but Frisch's letter to M. Hope of 14 September explains that 'I like to keep a duplicate of all my letters, it is like a diary for me'.
Published
'Briefe' Almost entirely on research projects including 'Badewanne' work, and publications.
See also: B.62-65, 'Badewanne 1' folder
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Outgoing letters. Includes, in addition to letters on research and publications, correspondence arising from the annexation of Austria by Germany in March and the consequent anxieties about Frisch's parents, relations and his aunt Lise Meitner. See especially letters of 12 June, 8, 18, 19, 30 August, 5, 8 September, 21, 31 October, 5, 16, 29 November, 12 December.
B.79: Jan.-July (in original folder)
B.80: Aug.-Dec.
See also: A112, Justinian and Auguste Frisch correspondence
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Outgoing letters.
2 January-10 July
Includes material relating to the publication of Meitner's and Frisch's two notes in *Nature* on nuclear fission; see letter of 22 January for reference to the coining of the term 'fission' and history of the discovery, and letter of 15 March re publication delay.
Letters also relate to arrangements for F. Urbach to work in Birmingham (see also A.48, B.104), and to Frida and Leo Frischauer.
See also: A.48, Correspondence '1939 to England', and B.104, Correspondence: Simons - Urbach.
Published
Folder of humorous verses, songs, caricatures, parodies, etc. relating to personalities and projects at the Copenhagen Institute.
Includes a poem 'Zum Abshied von Frisch'.
See B.50, 'Allotria. Fun and Games' folder, for similar material.
Published
Sheets of graph paper, folded and stitched to form a 'book', containing diagrams and calculations of experiments (in English and German).
Includes experiments on uranium October-December 1939, 'Neutron-Chain-Experiment' beginning January 1940, miscellaneous undated pages of diagrams and calculations.
Published
American Physical Society 1940. Frisch's carbon only.
Bjerge, T. 1939
Blackett, P.M.S. 1939
Bloch, F. 1939
Published
Includes correspondence re changes proposed by Bohr to paper by Frisch and Lise Meitner
A letter from Mrs. Bohr is also included here.
See also A. 182, Lise Meitner correspondence with O. R. Frisch.
Published
Buchthal, F. 1939
Ehrenberg, W. 1939
Hahn, O. 1939. 2 letters.
Published
Halban's letter of 29 January 1940 (in French) describes the difficulties of research under prevailing conditions and the deposit of their results in sealed letters to ensure priority.
Published
Hevesy, G. 1939
Høffer-Jensen, S. 1939-40
Kinsey, B.B. 1939
Klein, O. 1939
Koch, J. 1939
Published
Møller, C. 1939
Moon, P.B. 1939
Neugebann, O. 1939
Published
Paterson, R. 1940. Re supplies of radon.
Peierls, R.E. 1939
Placzek, G. 1939
Published
Rasmussen, E. 1939
Rosenfeld, Y.V. 1940
Published
Simons, L. 1939
Smith, C. 1939-40. Re Annual Report for the Journal of the Chemical Society (see *What little I remember*, pp.124-125)
Stern, O. 1939. Frisch's carbon only.
Urbach, F. 1939
See also A.48, Correspondence '1939 to England', B.81, 'Letters 1939', and B.129, Correspondence: Smith, C.
See *What little I remember*, p.137.
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Experiments, calculations, diagrams, etc. running '26.2.1941' to '13.12.1942'.
A few calculations also at rear of book.
Published
Experiments, calculations, diagrams, etc. with narrative and writing-up and fewer dates.
Dated material runs '6.3.1941' to '16.11.42'.
Includes a little material not in Frisch's hand.
A few calculations also at rear of book.
Published
Experiments and calculations, running '20.11.1942' to '5.6.1943'.
Published
Includes some personal notes as well as experiments and extensive drawings of apparatus.
N.d. but includes several caricature drawings of friends and colleagues, two (of Shull Arms and Evan Gill) dated '~ 1943'.
Includes loose page of notes on verso of concert programme, 1943.
See A.12-13, Diary/notebook, for additional notes of work at Liverpool.
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2 pp. typescript and MS, n.d. but probably early work at Liverpool.
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2 pp. typescript and MS, with 1 p. MS calculations attached, n.d. but c. July 1941.
Published
2 pp. typescript dated 11 June 1942 and signed J.H. Manley and J.R. Oppenheimer, with 6 pp. MS and typescript comments by Frisch.
Published
2 pp. typescript on research in Britain, no author. (2 copies.)
Published
8 pp. typescript, no author or date.
Published
1 p. typescript with MS corrections by Frisch, c. August 1942.
Published
1 p. typescript, no author or date.
Published
1 p. typescript with MS corrections and calculations by Frisch.
Published
Arms, S. 1942. Telegram only.
Blaschko, H. 1942
Chadwick, J. 1940-43
Council of Austrians in Great Britain 1941
Published
Feather, N. 1940 (Frisch's carbon only), 1942
Freundlich, H.J. 1941-42. Letter of 12 November 1941 has 'A Postscript by Kowarski'.
Published
Letter of 29 December 1941 has 'Postscript by Kowarski'.
Published
Johnson, C.H. 1940, 1943 (Frisch's carbon only)
Kinsey, B.B. 1942
Published
Includes 11 pp. report 'Study of density distributions of resonance neutrons in widely extended media' (by Halban, Kemmer and Kowarski) August 1941; a 1 p. note on 'Capture cross-sections for thermal neutrons', March 1942; 2 pp. Progress Report of Cambridge slow neutron group, August 1943.
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Kurti, N. 1941
London, H. 1941
Low-Beer, 1940
Published
Marshall, D.G. 1943
MAUD Committee 1941. Invitation to serve on Committee, letter of thanks on its winding-up.
Moon, P.B. 1940
Morris, J.H. 1940
Orowan, E. 1942
Published
Paneth, F.A. 1942. Re carbon isotopes for H.A. Krebs.
Park, J.R. 1942. Frisch's carbon only.
Published
B.125: 1940
B.126: 1941–42
Frisch lodged with the Pryces for a while (see *What little I remember*, pp.134-136).
Published
Published
Published
Re Annual Report on Radioactivity and Subatomic Phenomena for Journal of the Chemical Society, see also B.104, Correspondence: Simons - Urbach.
Published
Thomson, G.P. 1940. Includes note from R.W.B. Stephens.
Titterton, E.W. 1940-41
Turner, L.A. 1941. Telegram only.
Tyndall, A.M. 1940
Unidentified
Published
Folder of Frisch's carbons, 1942-43, with answers to two or more correspondents on each sheet. Many of these are replies to correspondence listed above, but they also include family or personal letters.
Published
Includes letter re supplies; 'Informal Report March 5, 1944' 2 pp. typescript, no author; 5 photographs of uranium blocks, neutron counter, etc.
Published
Includes report numbered 'BR 399' 'A study of the escape probability of neutrons from fissile material by an optical analogy', by D.G. Marshall, March 1944, with appendices by others, and miscellaneous notes, drafts and diagrams based on the report (by Frisch and another).
Published
Receipts for classified material sent by Frisch to various colleagues, various dates December 1943-February 1945.
Published
Frisch's 1 p. typescript contemporary account, with a photocopy, and a later (1974) typescript note by him annotating the published version of his 1945 account printed on the verso of a partial photocopied drawing of Holders for Cursor Mirrors dated '25.5.73 ORF'
1945 typescript stamped 'Secret' at top and bottom and crossed through with Frisch's initials
Many of these stamped 'Secret' or 'Confidential' [later crossed out], and 'Declassified'.
Published
Exchanged mainly with J. Chadwick re research plans, offers of jobs, Frisch's parents, etc. Reference is often made to the 'dragon' (R. Feynman's name for Frisch's method of testing chain reaction), and includes plans for improvements, safety precautions, etc.
See *What little I remember*, p.159.
See A.63, Miscellaneous correspondence, for other correspondence re Frisch's career plans, offers of posts, etc.
See *What little I remember*, pp.161, 171.
A note in the original CSAC finding aid: 'We are grateful to Sir Rudolf Peierls for his help in dating and identifying this letter.'
Published
Letter with news of work and colleagues at Los Alamos.
Probably April 1946 and sent by Louis Slotin, Frisch's successor in charge of critical assemblies, who died of exposure to radiation received from an accident during experimental work.
Published
Red notebook, pages numbered 2-144 by Frisch, and with a part-index of contents.
Miscellaneous contents, including references to Chalk River, Harwell, Cavendish Laboratory, meetings at Stockholm and Oxford, ideas for research, personnel, drawings for apparatus.
At rear of book is a home-made series of diary entries June 1946-January 1947.
Published
One plan labelled 'Gamma-Building (Los Alamos, 1945)' (perhaps used for guidance at Harwell).
Published
R.A.F. notebook, pages numbered 3-35 by Frisch.
Notes, diagrams, calculations, drafts, notes of meetings and lectures.
Entries begin 28 November 1946. On pp.35-36 are entries for 1952, 1954, 1955.
Published
Frisch's letter to Cockcroft of 21 January begins 'Thank you for sending me those plans. One referred to the theoretical building and I have given it to Fuchs, who will write you his own comments'. Also included are Frisch's comments on a paper 'Absolute Calibration of a Neutron Source'.
See also A.64, Correspondence re Frisch's visit to Chalk River, and his appointment as Deputy Chief Scientific Officer in the Directorate of Atomic Energy.
Published
Correspondence re staff and research.
Published
Duplicated typescript of 20 lectures by Frisch on nuclear physics, given 3 December 1946-11 June 1947.
Also included here are programme of nuclear physics conference at Harwell, September 1947, and a letter 1955 re Frisch's consultancy at Harwell.
Published
Includes observations, diagrams, narratives of a project 15.12.1950-29.4.54. when the entry reads 'Project has fizzled out'.
Book then continues under heading 'SWEEPNIK' with detailed account of development of project; entries run 28 September 1965-6 February 1977.
Published
Notice of U.K., U.S.A. and Canadian patents filed (U.K. no.10697/49) on 'High Density short pulse neutron source'.
Drawings and draft application for patent of 'A fastener consisting of two interlocking strips of flexible plastic of uniform cross-section', c.1949.
Published
'Neutron spectrometer', 1947.
'Negative mesons' (sent from Copenhagen 1947).
'Counting', 'Coincidences', 'Poisson-Gauss', 'Cosmology', 1950.
'ORF Newsletter' nos. 1-4, various dates during trip to United States 1950, describing research in progress in laboratories there.
Published
Letter to Frisch, from 'Dennis', on discovery of non-conservation of parity, 1957.
'Coherent Bremstrahlung', 1962.
'Decisions of the High Energy Collaboration' (not by Frisch), c.1963.
'MOIRE', 1963.
'Proposal for an Experiment to Detect Pulses of Gravitational Radiation', 1970, with a MS note by Frisch 'Train (Der Senator) well cushioned; written on case on my lap; hardly a sound'.
Published
Published
Published
Published
Chiefly re Frisch's contribution 'What is an observation?' to 1956 meeting.
Published
Correspondence and papers, all on Special Theory of Relativity, sent to Frisch for advice and comment, 1973.
Published
MS and typescript notes, some with brief MS notes by Frisch.
Published
3 pp, typescript, no author, from Cavendish, October 1947.
Published
Includes 'Nuclear Physics Lectures 1948', lecture on nuclei, 4 lectures on neutrons, n.d., miscellaneous undated notes and calculations.
Published
Published
Published
Published
Published
Includes various paginated sequences January-March and October-November 1953 (some pages also used 1955).
Published
Includes sequences on atomic physics, nuclear physics, and molecular beams.
Published
Published
Includes sequence on 'Nuclear Physics for Maths.' and 1 p. only 1957.
No MSS survive for lectures 1957-60.
Published
Published
Published
Book list and synopsis only.
Published
Synopsis and one lecture only.
See B.168, 'Wave Mech. CERN Lecture notes, etc. Q.M.' folder.
Published
Notes only, related to A.B. Pippard's course on 'Forces and Particles'.
Published
Published
Correspondence, including invitation to lecture, arrangements, bibliography, notice, etc. related to lectures at CERN as Visiting Scientist, June-September 1967, where Frisch gave a course of 12 lectures on 'Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics'.
Published
Miscellaneous sequences of notes and narratives, variously paginated 37A-84, originally given as Frisch's 'Quantum Mechanics' course for Lent Term 1964. Used for lectures at CERN, where as Visiting Scientist, June-September 1967, Frisch gave a course of 12 lectures on 'Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics'.
See also: B. 165b, Lectures.
Published
Some dated 1967 and probably intended for CERN lectures, where Frisch gave a course of 12 lectures on 'Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics'.
Published
59 pp. typescript with MS corrections, probably transcript from tape-recording.
'Lecture 1' occupies pp. 1-16; 'Lecture 2' starts p.17 to c.p.29, the course being probably 4 lectures in all.
Also included are miscellaneous notes on the subject, dated 1969 and 1970.
Published
Published
Notes for 4 lectures on Radioastronomy. Included with these is 22 pp. MS draft on 'Recent Advances in Radio Astronomy' for the Ritchie Lecture, Edinburgh, 21 May 1954 (perhaps by M. Ryle).
Notes for 'Philosophical Society Lecture' dated 23 November 1953 (MS corrections not in Frisch's hand).
'Why are there laws of nature?' 5 pp. typescript, February 1954.
'Complementarity', 1 p. MS, Trondheim, May 1956.
'Big circles', 1 p. MS, December 1957.
Published
'K-meson decay modes', 2 pp., March 1959.
Historical lecture, 2 pp., c. 1959.
'Time and Relativity', 4 pp., February 1960.
'Recoilless gamma resonance', 3 pp., c.1960.
'Measurement and chance', 1 p., May 1964.
Plans of three 'Proposed lectures', February 1969.
Published
Some are on verso of Trinity College Minutes from which an approximate dating may be made.
Published
Published
Correspondence re staff and research at the Cavendish.
Published
Mainly printed matter, but includes letter from Chadwick inviting Frisch to attend discussion meeting on the subject.
Published
Shorter correspondence re staff and research at the Cavendish.
Published
Published
Published
Published
Published
Including dinners for Bragg, Perutz, Crick, Kendrew, etc.
Published
Begins with 1 p. only dated 1959, then continues with notes on 'Geneva Bubble Meeting March 8, 1960'.
Miscellaneous other notes of meetings, research, etc., continuing to 1977.
At rear of book, brief notes on experiments 1977, 1978.
Some loose pages of calculations, 1979, are tucked into rear of book.
Published
Miscellaneous notes of experiments 27 February-7 October 1977 (few pages only used).
Published
11 January-3 March 1978 (few pages only used).
Published
Some papers annotated by Frisch.
Includes CERN report 'A study about the applicability of the principle of SWEEPNIK for the analysis of BEBC pictures', by K.K. Geissler, 1972 (BEBC = Big European Bubble Chamber).
See also: B.202, Correspondence.
Published
Includes:
1 p. MS notes on optics (on verso of programme for opening of Cambridge Science Park, June 1975, which included a visit to Laser Scan Laboratories)
7 pp. paper on 'The Optical system of the modular display', July 1975
1 p. paper on 'Diffractive focussing elements', June 1977
5 pp. paper on 'LS Research section: proposals for work', September 1976
2 pp. paper on 'Principles of a Laser Entertainment Device', February 1978.
These late papers, like those in B.189-B.196, represent some of Frisch's last work.
Published
Some dated 1976.
Published
Published
Includes paper 'Proposed Diazo Dispenser', March 1976, and miscellaneous notes and diagrams 1974-75.
Published
Latest date April 1979. Includes correspondence and related offprints from R.L. Gregory.
Published
Published
Published
Frisch's notes dated 1977-78, with some earlier correspondence and memos. 1976.
Published
1 p. 1971, but mainly November 1977-July 1979, and some undated.
The latest note 'Continued Fraction', not related to the above, is dated '12 Sept. 79' (Frisch died on 22 September).
Published
Published
Cavendish Laboratory reports HEP 68-3, 68-4, 68-5, by Frisch and G.S.B. Street, on SWEEPNIK.
Published
Published
MS and typescript drafts, diagrams, etc., some with various dates September-October 1971.
Published
Drawings, plans, etc. for offices and laboratory (not all by Frisch).
In original folder.
Published
Papers, progress reports, etc. 1968-71, including specifications April 1970, 10 pp., future research plans, and material re CERN Track Chamber Committee 1971.
See also B.187, Folder of notes, reports, etc. re scanning devices and track-measurements for bubble chamber at CERN
Published
Miscellaneous material re incorporation of Company, work-schedules, statements of account, etc.
Published
Frisch as the son of a typographer took a keen interest in typography.
Published
Published
Published
Published
Paris. Typescript letter requesting news of Frisch's research and reporting on his own.
Published
5 pp. numbered 'Uran 1' to 'Uran 5' dated 13-14 Jan. 1939.
2 pp. headed 'Thorium' dated 16 Jan. 1939.
1 p. headed 'Uran' and dated 16 Jan. 1939.
1 p. dated 20 Jan. 1939.
1 p. dated 29 Jan. 1939.
Published
5 letters dated 4, 9, 10, 18, and 21 January 1939.
Published
Carbon copies of six letters from Frisch to Lise Meitner, Copenhagen, 6 February, 20 April, 3 and 11 May, 19 and 27 June 1939.
Published
Four letters from N Bohr to Frisch, Princeton, 20 and 24 January and 9 February 1939 (in Danish) and 3 February 1939 (in English).
The letter of 9 February has a half-page note (in German) by L. Rosenfeld.
Published
Carbon copies of two letters.
Published
Two typescript drafts (1p and 3pp) with MS annotation of an article published in *Nature*, Lond., 143 (1939), 330.
Published
Carbon copies of six letters from Frisch to *Nature*, 7, 11 and 22 February, 6 March (two) and 4 May 1939 and one letter from *Nature* to Frisch, 10 February 1939. The letters of 6 March are represented by duplicates.
Published
Published
Graph book inscribed on the front cover with Frisch's name and dated 13 September 1939.
Published
'Atomic energy for power. Mr Baruch's report. Costs compared with coal'. Duplicated typescript of report in *The Times*, 9 September 1946, with MS notes on verso re personnel.
'Report submitted to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission by Bernard M Baruch, United States representative (Sept 1946)'. Photocopy.
Published
From the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory.
Published
'No.2. An outline of the magnetic trap stability experiment using plasma injection'.
'No.13. An outline of laser beam scattering by plasma'.
Published
This series consists of drafts, correspondence, and printed material related to Frisch's lectures and publications. The material is arranged into seven subseries: Lectures and articles, Books and unpublished work, Book reviews, Obituaries and biographical writings, Requests for lectures and papers, Correspondence with publishers and editors, and Published material. Each section is presented in chronological order so far as this is ascertainable. A supplemental subseries has been added consisting of papers given by Ulla Frisch after the main body of papers.
The Lectures and articles, C.1-54, consist of drafts and related correspondence. See also Series E for scripts of talks on the radio. Books and unpublished work, C.55-76, also consists of drafts and related correspondence. Book reviews are to be found at C.76. Many of the Obituaries and biographical writings, C.77-89, are additional to those listed in the Bibliography, *Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society*, 27, 306.
Requests for lectures and papers, C.90-101, consists of correspondence from universities, industrial firms, scientific societies, Jewish organisations, schools and colleges, some of which is accompanied by a little background information. A note is given of any material of particular scientific or personal interest, and significant correspondence is indexed. For invitations to give lectures abroad, see Series E.
The Correspondence with publishers and editors, C.102-133, is mainly with editors or representatives of firms or newspapers, but there are a few exchanges with individuals. The content relates to Frisch's own publications (articles, books, translations), written or proposed, and to requests for advice or comment by him on material submitted for publication by others. Correspondence relating to specific identified writings by Frisch may be found with the relevant manuscript drafts in C.1-89. This material provides information on many book proposals that were never realised.
C.134-139, Published material, includes an incomplete set of reprints of Frisch's published papers, presented in the order adopted for the Bibliography accompanying the Memoir by R.E. Peierls (*Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society*, 27, 1981) at C.138-139. Several items in the sequence C.1-89 are omitted from or additional to this Bibliography.
C.140-167 consist of supplemental papers given by Ulla Frisch after the main body of papers. C.140-147 are drafts by Otto Frisch, including his first published paper, C.148-163 are drafts by others, C.164-165 are unidentified drafts, and C.166-167 are published papers.
Published
6 pp. typescript, n.d., but with a MS note 'Werner Ehrenberg, 1934 (my draft?) ORF 1972'.
Published
Introduction to a talk by Frisch, with a MS note by him 'Spring 1947'.
Published
Article for *Neue Rundschau*, with MS date 1947, galley proof.
Published
Article for *Neue Rundschau*, with MS date 'Dez. 1947', galley proof and Frisch's forwarding note.
Published
Summary of discussion meeting organised by Society for Visiting Scientists, March 1948.
Published
15 pp. duplicated typescript.
Published
2 versions, each 12 pp. with MS corrections, of an article contributed to a collaborative volume. n.d., latest reference 1948.
Published
15 pp. typescript for article in *Discovery*, with MS note 'Very urgent'. The MS bears a date '1952?' but accompanying correspondence is dated 1950 and includes a draft written in 1949.
Published
Short article for *Cambridge Review*, c.1951, galley proof.
Published
6 pp. typescript, n.d. early 1950s.
Published
On similar subject to 'The particles of physics: what kind of pattern?' 13 pp. typescript, n.d. early 1950s.
Published
Possibly for popular encyclopaedia, on current state of physics research. 9 pp. typescript and MS., n.d. c.1953.
Published
Article for *Times Science Review*, 1953, 22 pp. typescript and MS.
Published
This light-hearted piece rapidly became second in renown only to the Meitner-Frisch papers on fission. Originally published in the spring 1954 number of *Harlequin* (the 'Leisure Magazine of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment') it was republished in many journals and several languages.
Folder includes original draft (3 pp. typescript and ms.), letter 1953 re publication in Harlequin, copy of first publication, Italian version, Journal of Jocular Physics 1955 (Bohr's 70th birthday number) and later correspondence re article from editors and readers 1956-77.
Published
Short story, 6 pp. typescript, with a few MS corrections. Written probably in 1950s for Frisch's children and other members of the family.
Also includes photocopy of story with MS note 'Karli & Kurt'.
See C.54, 'Two stories about a small bear', for similar material.
Published
Lecture at Sorbonne, as part of celebration by University of Paris of 20th anniversary of discovery of artificial radiation, November 1954.
Folder includes English text, 15 pp. typescript (lecture was given in French), invitation and notice, shorter related correspondence.
Published
9 pp. typescript and MS, 1954.
Folder also includes a letter of comment on the draft, later correspondence re course of lectures 1954-55 at Shrewsbury (Frisch lectured 11 March 1955 on 'The military application of nuclear energy') and 1 p. MS notes and references by Frisch updating the subject to January 1956.
Published
5 pp. typescript article for *The Daily Telegraph*, March 1955. Includes brief correspondence re articles for the newspaper.
Published
Typescript and proof of article for *Times Science Review*, 1955.
Published
Humorous article, perhaps intended for *Journal of Jocular Physics*, 1 p. typescript, October 1955.
Published
3 pp. duplicated typescript, June 1956.
Published
16 pp. typescript of article for *Times Science Review*, 1956.
Published
9 pp. heavily-corrected typescript, with a heading 'Rotblat' (possibly for *Discovery*, see C.110).
Published
17 pp. typescript draft, July 1957, of article published in *The Atlantic Monthly*, with a little related correspondence.
Published
Untitled article for *United Nations News*, November 1958.
7 pp. typescript and MS, with related correspondence, which also includes arrangements for Frisch to give lecture to U.N. Association (Cambridge) on 'Nuclear Radiation', March 1959.
Published
With subtitle 'Notes on a series of lectures presented at Chalk River in August, 1958, and published with the kind permission of the author'.
Chalk River, Ontario, report no.748, February 1959.
18 pp. duplicated typescript and Frisch's forwarding letters.
Published
Collaborative paper by Frisch and Olson, published in *Physical Review Letters* 1959.
Includes 4 pp. typescript draft, ms. notes by Frisch and collaborator, notes perhaps for lectures on similar subject, correspondence from collaborator.
In original folder inscribed 'Überall Effect'.
Published
8 pp. typescript and ms. with 1 p. references, May 1959.
Published
Evening Discourse given at the Royal Institution, May 1960.
1 p. draft summary only, with invitation and related correspondence.
Included here are corrected proof and correspondence re Frisch's article of the same title, published in *Nature*, 187, 1960.
Published
5 pp. typescript (incomplete), perhaps for article in *Times Science Review*, 1959.
Published
14 pp. typescript and MS, with 1 p. figures, n.d. early 1960s.
Published
16 pp. typescript and MS, with a MS note 'Keep this', n.d. early 1960s.
Included here is correspondence re the York lecture on 'The fundamental particles of physics', given at British Association meeting, August 1961, with a 2 pp. summary for the lecture.
Published
20 pp. typescript and MS, August 1961.
Published
Contribution to *The Critical Approach*, a celebration volume for K. Popper, 1962.
Includes text (13 pp. typescript and MS), notes, related background material, correspondence.
Published
21 pp. typescript and MS, with a MS note 'Store', February 1963.
See also C.147
Published
11 pp. typescript and MS article in dialogue from (incomplete) n.d.
Published
'Die Elementarteilchen der Physik'
Contribution to conference or discussion meeting, includes questions and discussion.
(Offprint only).
'Die Datierung Vorgeschichtlicher Funden'.
Article in German review.
(Offprint only)
See E.33, Düsseldorf, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordchein-Westfalen, for possibly related correspondence.
Published
For *Science Journal*, July 1965.
4 pp. typescript and related correspondence.
Published
'Die Bausteine der Welt'.
2 pp. typescript, September 1967.
English version, titled `Particles'.
3 pp. typescript (incomplete), n.d.
Published
Contribution to *Niels Bohr; His life or work as seen by his friends and colleagues*, ed. S. Rozenthal, 1967.
Offprint only: two copies, one heavily annotated and revised for use in *What little I remember*.
See also E.68, 'Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr', Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963: Typescript headed 'Frisch'
Published
Talk given at American Physical Society History of Fission Session, April 1967.
2 pp. typescript `Summary and explanations', and later correspondence, 1974, re use of talk in audiovisual historical programme.
Copy of talk as published in *Physics Today*.
Published
Stokes Lecture 1971 (with slides).
Folder includes 22 pp. transcript of tape recording (incomplete), photographs, copy of Rutherford's and Geiger's 1912 paper on αparticles.
Published
20 pp. typescript and MS draft for illustrated lecture or broadcast.
Includes letter (June 1972) forwarding draft, notes and an earlier 1 p. draft dated December 1971.
Published
Article contributed to *A Hundred Years of Cambridge Physics*, September 1973.
5 pp. MS and typescript draft, and comment from A. Kempton on the draft.
Published
11 pp. typescript and MS draft, and published version, n.d., but after 1972.
See C.120, Correspondence with publishers and editors:New Scientist, for a later published version, 1977.
Published
8 pp. typescript and MS draft for article published in *Physics Bulletin*, 1974.
See also: C.126, Correspondence with publishers and editors: Physics Bulletin
Published
1 p. typescript, and related correspondence re distribution as a cassette tape recording study guide of this talk and of 'The origin of nuclear fission', also by Frisch.
See G.29, G.30 for tape-recordings of talks.
See also C.73, Miscellaneous drafts for books: 'Through the eyes of a scientist'.
Published
Published
2 pp. typescript, July 1976.
Published
'The Importance of Technology for the Growth of Physics'.
2 pp. notes for lecture at Newcastle, March 1977, with related correspondence.
'Words'.
1 p. typescript and ms., perhaps for short broadcast, August 1977.
Published
For *New Scientist*, February 1977.
Heavily-corrected typescript, 3 pp.
Published
Various typescript and MS drafts for article or talk, April 1978.
Published
10 pp. typescript and MS draft, September 1978, for contribution to *Lying Truths*.
Published
Correspondence, 1977-78, re publication by Minnesota University Press of Frisch's lecture `Experimental Work with Nuclei: Hamburg, London, Copenhagen', delivered in May 1977.
See E.58, Visit to the U.S.A.
Published
Humorous short note, June 1979.
Draft, correspondence, offprint.
Published
Correspondence re Frisch's contribution (on Space and Time) to proposed St. Michael General Knowledge Book, August 1979.
Includes notes and several drafts for article.
Published
'Two stories about a small bear', March 1979.
Included here are other anecdotes and sketches, probably written in 1950s.
See also: C.15, 'The stolen submarine'.
Published
Correspondence with U.S. publishers, initially Bermann-Fischer Verlag, later their successors A.A. Wyn, Inc., 1946-60.
Includes contract, comments on draft manuscript, publishing arrangements, letter from Lise Meitner re Frisch, royalty statements, etc.
In original folder inscribed 'Meet the Atoms'.
Published
Correspondence with Sigma Books Ltd., U.K. publishers, 1946-51, and one letter 1958.
Includes suggestion that Frisch's father should design book jacket for U.K. edition.
Published
Published
Correspondence with U.S. publishers (Basic Books Inc.), 1959-77.
Includes Agreement, publication arrangements, publicity, royalties, translations, arrangements for U.K. publication (by Oliver and Boyd).
Published
Published
Published
Correspondence with Basic Books Inc. re arrangements to publish American edition of *Working with atoms* (see C.62) 1966.
Includes reviews.
See also C.113, Correspondence with publishers and editors: W. Heinemann Limited.
Published
Includes agreement, publication arrangements, translations, arrangements for American edition published by Basic Books
Published
Proof copy of book, with some MS corrections.
Published
Frisch's notes for book, illustrations and photographs. Correspondence, 1963-65, re illustrations for book, on which Mrs. U. Frisch initially collaborated.
The book was published in February 1972 (not 1973, as given in the Bibliography, *Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society*, 27, 305).
Published
Includes agreement, publishing arrangements.
Published
Published
3 pp. typescript plan for collaborative book (4 authors) with chapter-headings and detailed summary of General Introduction on natural, artificial and applied radioactivity.
See C.125 for correspondence with Pergamon Press on possible publication.
Published
Folder inscribed 'Atoms - Manual', containing typescript and MS draft of two chapters, 'Atomic Structure' (39 pp.) and 'Types of Radioactivity' (46 pp.) n.d.
There is also a 'Historical introduction' (8 pp. typescript, with 2 pp. MS comments in another hand) intended for a book on fission, n.d., 1950s. (The back of the folder has a note 'Fission Book'.)
Probably intended for proposed book for C.U.P
See C.105, Correspondence with publishers and editors: Cambridge University Press.
Published
Folder inscribed 'Subatomic Particles', containing notes and drafts for several chapters for a proposed book, as follows:
Miscellaneous notes and headings, some dated 1959, 1960.
'Atoms and the quantum', dated 14 February 1959.
'Introduction', 2 drafts, one with revisions.
'Historical Introduction', dated 1961, 2 drafts, one with revisions and 1 p. comments (numbered 1).
'Waves, Spin, Positrons', incomplete (numbered 3).
Untitled, on waves and spin, incomplete (numbered 4).
'Beta decay and the neutrino' (numbered 7).
'Nuclear Force and the "Mesotron"' (numbered 8).
'Nature's bullets' (numbered 10).
See C.105 for correspondence for proposed book of this title for C.U.P.
Published
Chapters of a proposed book on 'New Particles', as follows:
'New particles' (numbered 1).
'Observing single particles' (numbered 2).
'The photon: waves and particles' (numbered 2).
'Electrons, protons, nuclei' (numbered 3).
'The atom and the quantum' (numbered 4).
'Recording individual particles' (numbered 4).
'Seeing the tracks of particles' (numbered 5).
Also included are MS notes by Frisch of the Contents page of a proposed book, containing 18 chapters, dated 27 September 1962.
Published
'Elementary atomics'.
Foreword and draft for chapter 1 'Atomic Structure', n.d., perhaps 1950s.
Published
Miscellaneous typescript drafts, some dated 1974, 1976, originally contained in an envelope inscribed 'Through the eyes of a scientist', and intended for a book with that title (see C.74).
C.72: 'Energy', miscellaneous drafts and revisions, some dated August 1974.
'Heat'.
C.73: 'Coping with Numbers', dated February 1976.
'Sound'.
'Distinguishing the Main Types of Radioactivity'.
C.74: 'The Origin of Nuclear Fission'. 11 pp. typescript headed 'The Society of Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Pioneer Lecture honouring Lise Meitner. Presented by Dr. Otto Frisch from Cambridge University at the Annual Meeting of the Society in Miami Beach, Florida in June 1973'. Includes correspondence re slides and cassette of lecture, and also correspondence with publisher re Frisch's ideas for book 'Through the eyes of a scientist'.
See C.45, 'Distinguishing the main types of radioactivity'.
See also E.51-52, Visit to the U.S.A.
Published
Published
Most of these are additional to the list given in the Bibliography, *Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society*, 27, 305.
'The Acceleration of Particles to High Energies', *Discovery*, 1950.
'Atomkraft heute und morgen', by Carlos Sánchez del Rio, 1955.
'The Great Decision', by M. Amrine, *New Scientist*, 1960.
'The Birth of the Bomb', by R.W.Clark, *Discovery*, 1961.
'From Dualism to Unity in Quantum Physics', by A Landé, *Contemp. Physics*, 1961.
'The New World', U.S. Atomic Energy Commission History, Vol.1, *New Scientist*, 1962.
'Physics in the Sixties', ed. S.K. Runcorn, *Discovery*, 1963.
Combined review of books by Oppenheimer, Weizsäcker and Schrödinger, New Statesman, 1964.
'The Nature of matter', by L.C.L. Yuan, *Science Journal*, 1965.
'The Art of the soluble', by P.B. Medawar, 1969.
'Rutherford - Recollections of the Cambridge days', by M. Oliphant, 1973.
'Collected Works of Leo Szilard', ed. B. Feld and G. Szilard, *Physics Bulletin*, 1973.
'Solvay Conferences on Physics', by J. Mehra, 1977.
'Scientists in Power', by S. Weart, *Nature*, 1979.
See also: C.110, Correspondence with publishers and editors: Discovery
Published
C.77: Miscellaneous obituary notices and tributes by Frisch, for *The Times* (1961, includes copy of previous *Times* stock obituary 1937), broadcast (December 1962), article or talk (1967).
C.78: Miscellaneous printed matter, press-cuttings and articles by or about Bohr, assembled by Frisch.
Published
M. Born
Address at Memorial Service, Caius College, Cambridge, May 1970.
Published
Published
Obituary broadcast on 'Ten O'Clock' programme, September 1967.
Published
Notes for centenary talk, 1979.
Published
Offprint from *Nature*, London, 1955.
Published
C.84: Articles and tributes by Frisch, for *The Observer* (1964), *Physics Bulletin* (1968).
C.85: Miscellaneous notices, printed matter, press-cuttings and articles by or about Hahn, assembled by Frisch.
Published
5 pp. tribute with a MS note 'Memorial Service?'
Published
N.d., perhaps on occasion of Fermi Prize, 1963.
Published
Draft for obituary notice in *Phil. Mag. and Cont. Phys.*, with a little editorial correspondence, 1975.
Published
Published
1934, 1946–49. Letter of 1934 is from Birkbeck College Physical Society during Frisch's period in Blackett's laboratory.
Published
Includes correspondence re Frisch's participation in course of extra-mural lectures, London, on 'Atomic Energy', 1954, to which Frisch contributed the second lecture, on 'Atomic Weapons'.
Published
Published
Published
Published
Published
Published
Published
Published
Includes arrangements for Frisch to give a memorial lecture for W. Ehrenberg at Birkbeck College.
Published
Published
Published
C.102: Adventures in Experimental Physics 1973
Allen and Unwin Limited: Correspondence and agreement re proposed 'Collected Papers' by Frisch. 1958
C.103: American Technion Society 1948
Appleton-Century-Crofts 1964
Atlantic Monthly 1962
Published
Bergmann-Fischer Verlag 1945
Bild der Wissenschaft 1966-67
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1959, 1974
Butterworths 1950
Published
Cambridge University Press 1953-74
Correspondence on various projects and proposed books.
Includes agreement for collaborative book on 'Fission', 1953. See C.68, 'Atoms - Manual'.
Correspondence re proposed book on 'Subatomic Particles' or 'Elementary Particles', eventually dropped at Frisch's request 1960-64. See C.69, 'Subatomic Particles'.
Correspondence re Niels Bohr's *Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature*, and including Frisch's introduction for reissued version, 1960.
Correspondence re translation of Schrödinger's *Meine Weltansicht*, and including a 'trial translation' by Frisch, 1961-64.
Agreement for proposed book on 'Quantum Theory and Beyond' to be written by Frisch, 1970.
Other miscellaneous correspondence, last date 1974
Published
Correspondence mainly re proposed collection of essays and lectures by Frisch, to be published under the title 'Looking at Atoms'; includes Frisch's suggested list of material (July 1957) and readers' reports (January 1958).
Published
Re proposed books 'The Neutron' (1947) and 'High Energy Physics' (1971).
Published
Re proposed publication of historical work by Lise Meitner and Frisch, 1962.
Published
General correspondence, on articles and reviews by Frisch submitted for publication in the journal, his comments on papers by others, suggestions for articles or authors to be approached, etc.
Published
Published
Correspondence on articles and reviews by Frisch.
See also: Untitled draft, 9 pp. heavily-corrected typescript, with a heading 'Rotblat' (possibly for *Discovery*), C.110
and drafts of book reviews by Frisch for *Discovery* in C.76.
Published
R. Fraser 1954
W.H. Freeman and Company Limited 1979
G.G. Harrap and Company Limited 1959-60
Published
Correspondence on various articles by Frisch for *Penguin Science News*, *The Times Science Review*, *Science Survey*, etc.
Published
Re possible publication by Heinemann of U.K. edition of *Atomic physics today*.
See also C.58-C.61, *Atomic physics today*.
Published
Correspondence with author and with several publishing houses about Hildesheimer's book *Die Welt der Ungewohnten Dimensionen* and including report by Frisch.
Published
Hutchinson's University Library 1960. Re proposed book on nuclear physics.
D. Karten 1967
Macmillan 1970
A. Mondadori Company 1973-74
F. Muller Limited 1954
J.C. Muster 1970. Re 'Single Concept Tapes' project, Otterbein College, Ohio.
Published
*Nature* 1959-60
Naturwissenschaften 1931
T. Nelson and Sons 1959-64. Re proposed book 'The Young Physicist', with a few notes for chapter-headings.
Published
Frisch acted as Consultant and Adviser for books on peaceful uses of atomic energy (see letter of 9 November 1955 for details of appointment).
General correspondence with the firm, and with possible authors re publications, comments on MSS.
Published
Correspondence on articles and reviews by Frisch (many not documented elsewhere in the collection).
C.118: 1957–60
C.119: 1970–75. Includes a short article 'One Christmas I shall never forget' [1938] 1973, notes for article on High Energy Physics 1974, correspondence arising from Frisch's article 'Shooting sparrows in the dark' 1975 and a biographical 'profile' of Frisch 1975.
C.120: 1976–79. Includes correspondence re publication of Frisch's earlier lecture 'Who invented the electron?' (see C.43A) 1977, anniversary articles on Lise Meitner and on Einstein 1978. For book review by Frisch for *New Scientist* see C.76.
Published
*New York Times* 1977
*The Observer* 1964
Published
Correspondence on books and articles written or proposed.
C.122: 1946–50
C.123: 1951–56
C.124: 1962–63
Published
Mainly re launching of 'Progress in Nuclear Physics'.
Correspondence 1953 refers to proposed 'Manual of Radioactivity'
See also C.67, 'Manual of radioactivity'.
Published
Correspondence 1959 is re article by Frisch on 'Fundamental Particles'; correspondence 1972-74 is re articles on SWEEPNIK and on 'Presenting physics' (See C.44).
Published
Published
*Scientific American* 1963-67
Correspondence re Frisch's article 'Molecular Beams' and essay-review on Niels Bohr.
*The Sunday Times* 1967
Re book on Niels Bohr.
Published
Includes agreement for Frisch to write book 'Lise Meitner as I remember her', 1969, and other articles especially for *Dictionary of Scientific Biography*.
Published
*Technica* (Russian journal) 1967
J.A. Teegan 1950
*The Times* 1973
Ulisse 1949 Re Premio Europeo Cortina, for which Frisch's book *Meet the Atoms* was runner-up.
*Universities Quarterly* 1957-59
Published
Victoria Publications 1956
F. Vieweg and Sons 1959-60
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1978
Re re-issuing of Meitner/Frisch 1939 article on Disentegration, and Frisch's 1939 article on Neutron bombardment, both originally in *Nature*.
Published
Mainly re proposed book 'The Anatomy of Matter'.
Published
Miscellaneous shorter correspondence, permission to quote, requests for information, acknowledgement of material, etc.
Published
Published
Published
Including some Second World War material.
Published
Humorous material, articles, verses, songs assembled at various dates.
Published
This is not a complete set, and there are many additional drafts for unlisted writings elsewhere in Series C.
Published
Typescript inscribed on first page 'Mitteilungen aus dem Institut für Radiumforschung No.197' and 'Vorgelegt in der Sitzung am 27 Januar 1927'. This was Frisch's first published paper.
Published
Typescript with MS annotation dated Hamburg, August 1932. Published in *Nature*, Lond., 130, 892.
Published
Published in *Nature*, Lond., 137 (1936), 149-150.
Published
Typescript of an article published in *Nature*, Lond., 137, 357.
Published
Typescript with MS annotation and a revised version, also a typescript with MS annotation.
Published
Includes letters from Muriel Howorth and the Institute of Atomic Information for the Layman, and John E. Pilgrim.
Published
Typescript with MS annotation.
See also C.34
Published
Published
Typescript headed 'Aus "La Ricerca Scientifica" Anno VI Vol.II n. 9-10 [1935]'.
Published
Typescript dated Institut du Radium, Laboratoire Curie, Paris, 3 April [1936]. Published in *Nature*, Lond., 137 (1936), 905.
Published
Typescript with MS annotation dated Institut du Radium, Laboratoire Curie, Paris, 8 May 1936 + 1p 'Literatur' and 2 graphs.
Published
Typescript with MS annotation, dated Institut du Radium, Laboratoire Curie, Paris, 6 June [1936]. Published in *Nature*, Lond., 138 (1936), 163.
Published
Heavily amended typescript with MS annotation, dated Institute of Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, 1 June 1939.
The author thanks Frisch 'who participated in the early work and has been constantly helpful with advice and useful suggestions'.
Published
Typescript with MS annotation dated Max Planck Institut der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, January 1945. Published in *Z. Phys.*, 124 (1945), 135.
Published
3pp typescript address. Folder also includes telegram from M. von Laue to Lise Meitner re Planck's funeral, 5 October 1947, letter from E. Gruneisen to Meitner enclosing his Marburg address on Planck, 27 November 1947 and Meitner's invitation to the Planck 'Gedenkfeier'
Published
Typescript
Published
Typescript for the "Festschrift" of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
Published
Typescript with MS inscription at head of first page 'by L.M.?? 1954?'
Published
Typescript dated Dahlem, 17 December 1956.
Published
Typescript signed on first page by Pauli, latest bibliographical reference 1958.
Published
4 pp typescript 'First draft' with MS annotation (in German); 4 pp typescript with MS annotation + 1p ms amendment (in English); 4 pp typescript clean copy (in English).
Published
Correspondence, telegrams re Franck's election as a foreign member of the Royal Society and the Meitner obituary, May-June 1964. Franck became a member of the Royal Society only a few weeks before his death.
Notes by E. Rabinowitch on 'J Franck and Photosynthesis', sent to Frisch, July 1964. Frisch was helping Lise Meitner with her obituary of Franck.
Published
'Zum Tode von James Franck' by W. Kroebel. Reprint from *Die Naturwissenschaften* 1964, sent to Meitner by the author, with many MS notes probably by Meitner.
Published
Typescript with MS annotation.
Published
Typescript, in German.
Published
Published
Published
This series consists of drafts of scripts, correspondence, contracts and receipts related to Frisch's work in radio, television, and film.
As with the material in Series C, the talks, etc. for which scripts survive and which are listed at D.1-38 are only a small proportion of Frisch's contribution to radio; the folders of correspondence, contracts or receipts at D.39-43 give a fuller impression of his substantial contribution as a broadcaster.
D.1-43 consists of drafts of scripts and related correspondence for BBC Radio and is arranged chronologically, save for the shorter correspondence groups found at D.39-43. A related group may be found at D.61-62; these are part of the supplemental papers added to the papers after cataloguing by Ulla Frisch. The scripts and related correspondence at D.44-50 Television Companies (U.K.) and D.51-54 Radio and Television (Europe) are arranged alphabetically by company within each section. The correspondence and papers for the films at D.55-59 are arranged chronologically.
Published
Talk for 'Aus der Welt der Wissenschaft' BBC series, broadcast 1948.
Drafts and correspondence 1947-48.
Published
Correspondence 1948-49 re broadcasts for European and Overseas Services, to be given in English and German, on 'The Atom'.
No English script survives, but there are drafts for two talks in German on the nature and uses of atomic energy, one with a note 'BBC 19(48) or 49'.
Published
Talk for 'Science Survey', broadcast October 1949.
Draft and correspondence.
Published
Two talks for 'Science Review' nos. 100 and 101, broadcast January and March 1950.
Scripts and correspondence 1949-50
Published
Talks given in English and German for Overseas Service, broadcast 1952:
'The atomic nucleus - what is it made of?'
'The atomic nucleus - how does it hold together?'
'The atomic nucleus - new ideas about its structure'
Scripts in English and German, correspondence, plans of talks 1951-52.
Published
Heavily-revised typescript draft with a MS note 'BBC 1951(?)'.
Published
Talk broadcast in English and German, 1953, and also in Italian translation.
Notes only for English version, German translation by Frisch, text of Italian translation, correspondence.
The English version was printed in *The Listener*.
Published
Talk for the BBC Third Programme, broadcast January 1954 and also in Italian translation.
Draft, Italian translation, correspondence 1953-54.
The English version was printed in *The Listener*.
Published
For the Home, European and Overseas Services, given in English, German and Danish
D.9: Drafts for several talks in English, Danish translation of 'How the hydrogen bomb works', correspondence.
D.10: Press-cuttings and correspondence from general public arising from broadcast.
See also, D.61, BBC Radio: 'No. 1 The scientific background', a talk on the hydrogen bomb and D.62, BBC Radio: Notes on the hydrogen bomb.
Published
Talk broadcast January 1955, English and German versions, correspondence.
Published
Talk for Home Service, broadcast February 1955.
Published
Series of four talks, broadcast as prelude to Geneva Conference, July 1955.
The subjects were: 'As a power source'
'Medical and research uses'
'Hazards'
'Future possibilities'
Outline of talks, Danish version, correspondence.
Published
Talk on Third Programme, December 1955.
Correspondence, 3 typescript drafts for talks with this title (all different texts).
Published
Talk in German Service, broadcast December 1955.
2 drafts, with slight variations.
Published
Talk in European Service 'Frontiers of Knowledge', broadcast February 1956.
Typescript.
Published
3 talks for Home Service 'Science Survey', broadcast February 1956.
The talks were: 'What are those atoms?'
'The structure of atoms'
'The atomic nucleus'
Published
Broadcast in Home Service, August 1956 and printed in *The Listener*.
No script survives; folder includes contract and correspondence arising from publication in *The Listener*.
Published
Correspondence and part drafts for contributions to 'The British contribution' and 'Wartime and post-war developments', broadcast November 1956.
Published
Broadcast in Home Service 'The Frontiers of Knowledge', October 1956 and in Italian translation.
Correspondence, copy of Italian version.
Published
Talk in German Service, broadcast December 1956.
Published
Talk in German Service, broadcast April 1957.
Published
Talk for 'Science Survey', May 1959, also broadcast in German Service, June 1959.
Scripts of English and German versions, correspondence which also refers to publication in *The Listener* and to re-broadcast in Swedish.
Published
Talk for Network Three series, broadcast November 1959.
Includes script and contributions from other participants, correspondence.
Published
Contributions to a three-part series for the German Service, recorded September 1959.
Plans for series, Frisch's contributions, correspondence.
Published
Three talks given in Third Programme, January 1960, under the titles 'The First Fourteen', 'The Strange Particles', 'Strangeness and Parity'.
Scripts, revised drafts, correspondence 1959-60.
Published
Contribution no.3 to 'The World Picture 1960', broadcast in European Service, November 1960.
Draft, broadcast script, brief correspondence.
Published
Series of six programmes in Network Three; Frisch took part in no.5 'Electromagnetic Radiation and the Atom', broadcast May 1963.
Outline of series, script of Frisch's contribution, correspondence, arrangements for script to be amended and re-broadcast in French by Université Radiophonique et Télévisuelle Internationale.
Published
No. 2 in the series 'Experiment', broadcast in Third Programme, September 1963 (describing work with Hahn in 1930).
Draft, script of broadcast, correspondence, report (highly favourable) from Audience Research Department, plans to publish series as booklet.
Published
No.6 in a series of talks 'A Few Ideas', broadcast in Third Programme, April 1964 and subsequently published in *The Listener*.
Revised draft, correspondence 1963-64.
Published
Draft, March 1965, probably for broadcast.
Published
Talk on Einstein, recorded July 1965, as part of three programmes on 'Einstein - the Man and his Achievement', broadcast on the Third Programme, 1966.
Draft, correspondence re talk, German version, publication by B.B.C. Publications 1965-67, and later correspondence re U.S. publication 1970, 1973.
Published
Discussion programme with many leading scientists as participants, broadcast in Third Programme December 1965.
Script, brief correspondence.
Published
Programme 3 in a series of 4 on the history of the atom, World Service, broadcast June 1966.
Draft corrected scripts dated April 1966, correspondence.
Published
Series of three contributions broadcast in the form of interviews with G. Steedman, recorded May 1966.
The subjects were 'The Three Parities' and 'Time Reversal' (two talks), broadcast in the European and World Services.
Correspondence, script of one talk only 'Charge, Position and Time Through the Looking-Glass' which was the first of the two on 'Time Reversal'.
Published
Contributions to two series of nine programmes each, broadcast under this title in Study Session (Network Three) 1967.
By invitation, Frisch submitted the general plan of the series, acted as consultant on speakers and scripts, and gave the introductory and the concluding talks 'What is Physics?' and 'The Future of Physics'.
A booklet 'Growing points in physics' was produced by BBC Publications in conjunction with the series, to which Frisch contributed an introduction.
D.36: Correspondence re planning of series, including Frisch's outline for all the talks, suggestions for speakers, etc. 1966-67, and a little later correspondence 1973.
D.37: Draft and broadcast scripts, booklet, etc.
Published
Contribution to Christmas edition of 'Science in Action', World Service, December 1969.
Script of broadcast (other contributors were K. Lonsdale, A.F. Huxley, J. Needham), brief correspondence.
Published
These folders document broadcasts or projects for B.B.C. radio for which no identifiable script survives. Many were for unscripted discussion programmes or interviews such as the 'Questions in the air' series to which Frisch frequently contributed. Others were for projects which may not always have been completed. In some cases only the contract, or receipt for payment, have survived.
D.39: 1947–56
D.40: 1957-62. Correspondence June 1959 includes invitation to participate in B.B.C. European Service 21st Anniversary series on 'The Scientist and Society'; Frisch's letter, declining, explains his interest in science as entirely for its own sake.
D.41: 1963-79. Correspondence August 1969 is re an interview on SWEEPNIK. Correspondence 1977 is re interview with Frisch for series 'One man's lifetime'. Correspondence 1979 is re Frisch's participation in 'Kaleidoscope' programme on Einstein.
D.42: 1948-66. Miscellaneous correspondence on B.B.C. programmes, various dates.
D.43: n.d. Envelope of receipts for various B.B.C. payments.
Published
Published
'Decisions of our Time'.
Published
D.46: 1960. Correspondence, proposals, etc. for a projected programme 'Science International'. Frisch was asked to serve as 'Visual Technical Adviser' and submitted a draft script on elementary particles. Plans for the programme were later cancelled.
D.47: 1961-62
D.48: 1964-79. 1964 includes contribution to film biography of Einstein. 1973 programme on Bohr 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier'. 1979 Open University programme on 'Science and Belief'
D.49: n.d. Miscellaneous shorter correspondence.
Published
Published
Requests for a talk in series 'Osterreicher im Ausland'.
Published
Correspondence, drafts, script for talk 'Neuere Ergebnisse der Kernforschung', broadcast October 1956, and re publication of this talk and another on causality.
Published
Université Radiophonique Internationale, Paris 1965
Swiss Radio 1966. Correspondence and script of talk on 'Umstrittene Symmetriegesetze'.
RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana 1968
Swedish Radio (re television programme) 1968
Published
'Die Wettlauf um die Atombombe'
Correspondence re programme on Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, transmitted July 1973.
Includes reviews, photographs, brief correspondence with F. Strassmann.
See *What little I remember*, pp. 194-195.
Published
Correspondence and papers 1946 re proposed film 'The beginning or the end'
Includes exchanges with film company and with Lise Meitner (who objected to the project), and copies of a typescript by Frisch with a MS. introductory note 'Sketch for some scenes in an "Atomic Energy" film; written in an attempt to improve on a script shown to me by MGM which was wrong in fact and atmosphere. This, though condensed and fictitious, is basically correct'.
Published
Brief correspondence only, exchanged by M.W. Perrin and R.E. Peierls, re proposed film on development of atomic energy, and including a draft 'Scene 204. Speech by Dr. Frisch', probably intended for film.
Published
Film for American television.
Correspondence with producer, 1970.
Published
'A World in Flight', documentary film.
Correspondence with director, outline treatment of project, 1971.
Published
Documentary film
Correspondence 1976-77.
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Talk for BBC Home Service, broadcast 3 February 1950.
7pp typescript with MS amendments and covering note. Photocopy.
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The first talk in a series of ten on the hydrogen bomb given by Frisch for the European Service of BBC Radio.
6 pp duplicated typescript with MS annotation.
See also D.9-10, BBC Radio: talks on the hydrogen bomb
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Typescript with MS annotation on the hydrogen bomb. Possibly for radio series on the bomb.
See also D.9-10, BBC Radio: talks on the hydrogen bomb and D.61, BBC Radio: 'No.1 The scientific background', a talk on the hydrogen bomb
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This series contains material relating to Frisch's academic visits and conferences, varying in content from brief notices or programmes to substantial folders including correspondence on scientific matters, arrangements for lectures, publications, and travel, as well as visits to friends. The material is arranged in chronological order; however, the supplemental papers given by Ulla Frisch, E.64-82, are in a second chronological order. E.64-E.76 consist of papers relating to the Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963. E.78 - E.82 consist of papers relating to the symposium on the history of nuclear physics, University of Minnesota, 18-21 May 1977.
For Pugwash conferences see F.101, F.112.
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American Physical Society, M.I.T., April 1946.
The Physical Society, Conference on Fundamental Particles and Low-Temperature Physics, Cambridge, July 1946.
University of Ghent Colloquium, invitation and letter of thanks from A. Berthelot, 1946-47.
Collège de France, Rutherford memorial meeting, 1947.
University of Birmingham, Conference 'Problems of Nuclear Physics', September 1948.
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8th Solvay Conference, Brussels, September 1948.
Information, programme, typescript 'Solvay Conference notes 1948' on papers by E. Teller and R. Serber.
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Programme only.
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E.4: Programmes, list of participants.
E.5: Brief MS notes for Frisch's lecture, printed abstracts of lectures some annotated by Frisch.
E.6: Brief correspondence with organisers and editor. Family correspondence received by Frisch at conference.
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Correspondence re award of Fulbright travel grant, and with Cavendish Laboratory.
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Commisariat à I'Énergie Atomique, Paris, invitation to lecture, November 1950.
The Physical Society, Cambridge, December 1950.
Università degli Studi, Rome, invitation to lecture, April 1951.
Discussion - conference on Nuclear Physics (arranged for 60th birthday of Bothe), Heidelberg, June 1951. Correspondence and programme.
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Information, programme.
Also enclosed is correspondence re another visit to Copenhagen, October 1951.
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E.10: Correspondence re conference at Chicago, programme, list of participants, etc.
E.11: Correspondence re other visits and talks, to Bell Telephone Laboratories, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Iowa State College, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Washington University.
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Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, lecture and 'ORF Newsletter' to Cavendish Laboratory, April 1952.
Lund University, Sweden, lecture, April 1952.
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Itinerary, reports on research projects and on scientists met, own journal of trip, brief correspondence from colleagues arranging visits, etc.
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Correspondence re appointment and visit, lecture, comments on draft papers, incidental visits to Rome, Bombay, Colombo.
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List of participants, programme, printed report of proceedings.
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E.16: Correspondence with British Council and with colleagues, re visit and engagements.
E.17: Correspondence re Cavendish Laboratory affairs. Personal and family correspondence during visit. Corrected draft of an article on atomic energy (by a journalist) which Frisch substantially rewrote.
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Information, programme, abstracts of papers.
'Some notes on the Glasgow Nuclear Physics Conference', 12 pp. typescript.
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MS and typed notes
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Invitation card (only) to lecture on 'Cherenkov Detectors', given by Frisch at Stockholm, May 1956.
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Frisch lectured on 'Probleme der Atomenergiegewinnung aus Wasserstoff'.
Correspondence, brief summary of lecture, draft of similar lecture 'Kann Mann aus Wasserstoff Atomkraft gewinnen?' dated April 1957.
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Information, participants, programme.
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Correspondence with colleagues and authorities at Cornell and at Cambridge.
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Conference organised by H. Kopfermann.
Invitation and travel grant application only.
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Visit to Heidelberg, to lecture on 'Kohörente Bremsstrahlung von Krystallen', June 1960.
Brief correspondence only.
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Correspondence
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Visit to American University of Beirut, Lebanon, to give three lectures, March 1961, as part of British Council visit
Correspondence only.
See E.30, Proposed visit to Iran and Pakistan as part of British Council visit
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Visit to Dortmund under auspices of British Council, to give lecture as part of the Dortmund English Festival, May 1961.
Correspondence only.
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Visit to Institute of Theoretical Physics, Vienna, to give two lectures (on elementary particles and on bubble chamber research), May 1961.
Correspondence only.
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Correspondence with British Council 1960-61 re proposed visit to Iran and Pakistan to lecture and visit laboratories, scheduled for March 1961 but cancelled by Frisch. The visit to Beirut was intended as part of this trip.
See E.27, Visit to American University of Beirut, Lebanon as part of British Council visit
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Visit to Basle under British Council University Interchange Scheme, to lecture on new particles, and on work at the Cavendish Laboratory, June 1962.
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Itinerary (only) for visit to U.S., March-April 1962.
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Visit to Düsseldorf to lecture to Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordchein-Westfalen, December 1962.
Frisch lectured on elementary particles and his talk was published
Correspondence 1961-63 re arrangements and publication.
See C.36, 'Die Elementarteilchen der Physik' and 'Die Datierung Vorgeschichtlicher Funden'.
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Correspondence 1963-64 re proposed visit September 1964-June 1965 as Visiting Professor, University of Miami. Frisch was not able to take up the offer.
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Frisch lectured on '50 Jahre Grundlagenphysik'.
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Correspondence re arrangements to visit and lecture, notes taken at Texas conference.
See also E.77, Notes of conference proceedings [the Symposium on relativistic astrophysics, Austin, Texas?]
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Invitation and acceptance only.
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Invitation, correspondence, programme, list of participants, information, etc.
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MS diary of events, some MS notes of laboratories and people seen, brief correspondence.
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Visit to U.S.A., January-February 1969.
Frisch attended a National Topical Meeting of the American Nuclear Society, on Fast Burst Reactors, at Albuquerque, January 1969, and also lectured and visited at other laboratories and universities.
Frisch chaired Session I on 'Fast Burst Reactor Analysis Techniques'.
Itinerary, correspondence with colleagues and friends, 1968-70.
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Programme, information, abstracts.
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Letter from Frisch to his family, describing the visit.
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Itinerary, correspondence, Frisch's MS journal of trip.
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Various itineraries and arrangements, correspondence.
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Frisch gave the opening speech, a copy of which is included in the folder.
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Correspondence, arrangements, Frisch's MS journal of trip.
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Frisch gave a talk, '50 Jahre unter Physikern', May 1972.
Correspondence, including news of old schoolfellows.
See A.106.
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E.48: Correspondence re conference, information, programme, itinerary.
E.49: Personal correspondence re Frisch's illness and delayed return home.
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Invitation, correspondence, Frisch's notes, press cuttings, plans for questions to be discussed, etc.
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E.51: Correspondence re meeting and lecture, programme, press cuttings, visas. 11 pp. typescript and MS version of lecture (another copy is at C.74). 3 pp. typescript of a lecture 'The Origin of Nuclear Fission', perhaps prepared for same trip.
E.52: Correspondence re visits and lectures at Berkeley, Dartmouth, Los Alamos, National Accelerator Laboratory, Princeton, University of Washington Seattle; and a little personal correspondence with friends in U.S.
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Correspondence, notes for lecture, marked for slides.
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Symposium on the retirement of R.E. Peierls, Oxford, July 1974, at which Frisch spoke.
Correspondence, programme, participants.
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Frisch gave two lectures on 'The Tortuous Path to Atomic Power'.
Correspondence, 16 pp. transcript from recording of lecture at Riso (Atomic Energy Research Establishment).
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Correspondence only.
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Frisch lectured on 'Der schmale Pfad zur Uranspaltung', and also lectured at Graz, Innsbruck and Linz.
The folder also includes a little personal correspondence about visits by Frisch and his wife to relatives and friends in the course of the trip, and Frisch's brief MS journal.
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Frisch attended the Symposium on the History of Nuclear Physics, University of Minnesota and gave a talk 'Experimental work with Nuclei: Hamburg, London and Copenhagen'.
Frisch was accompanied by his son Anthony, and arranged visits to several universities and institutions, lecturing and seeing friends.
Itinerary, conference programme and information, correspondence.
See also C.51, Correspondence re publication of Frisch's lecture 'Experimental Work with Nuclei: Hamburg, London, Copenhagen', and E.78, Programme, information, list of references for R. E. Peierls lecture on 'The development of our ideas on nuclear forces'
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Frisch accepted an invitation to attend and to give a talk on 'The Importance of Technical Innovations for the Development of Physics'.
He was invited to participate in a meeting of the Finnish Pugwash Group, but later declined both invitations through pressure of work.
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American Physical Society Symposium commemorating 40th anniversary of discovery of fission, Washington D.C., April 1978, at which Frisch was invited to take the chair.
Letter of invitation only (Frisch did not go).
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Visit to 'Herbstschule' on high energy physics, Maria Laach Abbey, Bonn, September 1978.
Folder also includes correspondence re lecture to be given at DESY (organisers of 'Herbstschule'), Hamburg, March 1979.
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Frisch attended the International Symposium in Honor of Robert R. Wilson at Fermilab, Illinois, April 1979.
Frisch was accompanied by his wife, and arranged visits to several universities and institutions, lecturing and seeing friends.
Itineraries, conference material, correspondence.
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Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963. Some items used by Frisch for notes and caricatures of participants.
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From the Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963.
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From the Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963: Includes notes on H. B. G. Casimir, M. Delbrück, W. Heisenberg, O. Klein, A. Pais, B. Strömgren and G. C. Wick.
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Photocopy of a lecture at the Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963.
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17 pp typescript in Danish, Frisch's reminiscences prepared for commemoration meeting for Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963:
Letter from S. Rozental, editor of the Bohr commemorative volume, 19 March 1964. In Danish.
See also C.39, 'The interest is focussing on the atomic nucleus'
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Miscellaneous papers found with commemoration meeting material or relating to Bohr.
Poem, 1p typescript. One of the cards and two cards with additional MS notes, diagrams and caricatures.
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'Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr', Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963: Miscellaneous papers found with commemoration meeting material or relating to Bohr.
Letter from [Aage Bohr?] to Frisch, December 1967.
Letter from F. Sondheimer re early work of Bohr, 23 January 1976.
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Miscellaneous papers found with commemoration meeting material or relating to Bohr.
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Miscellaneous papers found with commemoration meeting material or relating to Bohr.
Typescript with MS annotation. This paper is not listed in the bibliography of the Royal Society memoir of Bohr (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 9, 1963) and may not be published.
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Photocopy of an article published in *Phys. Rev.*, 48 (1935), 696.
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Photocopy of an article published in *Dialectica*, 2 (1948), 312.
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Photocopy of an article published in *Proc. Phys. Soc.*, 78, 1083.
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See also: E.36, Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Austin, Texas and visit to various other laboratories, universities and friends
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Symposium on the history of nuclear physics, University of Minnesota.
See also E.58, Visit to the U.S.A.
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Typescript of Frisch's lecture at the symposium on the history of nuclear physics, University of Minnesota.
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Photocopy. From the symposium on the history of nuclear physics, University of Minnesota.
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Envelope in which graphs and items E.78-E.80 were found. Possibly related to the symposium on the history of nuclear physics, University of Minnesota.
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MS notes including notes on contributions of Segrè and Goldhaber at the symposium on the history of nuclear physics, University of Minnesota.
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This series brings together the remaining letters not kept by Frisch in folders with related research notes, drafts for publications, etc. Some of the letters complement material in other series, but the majority are shorter exchanges with scientific colleagues, or personal correspondence.
It should be noted that several of the letters have Frisch's reply typed on the verso.
The correspondence is presented in alphabetical order, with a brief indication of any material of particular scientific or personal interest. The supplemental papers given by Ulla Frisch, E.148-157, however, are listed in a second alphabetic order.
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Frisch was briefly engaged to her in 1947: see *What Little I remember*, p.197.
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Alexandrov, A. 1977
Allen, W.D. 1957. Frisch's carbon only: comments on book.
Alvarez, L.W. 1948, 1968, 1978
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Arms, S. 1953
Aspden, H. 1974. Frisch's carbon only.
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Miscellaneous printed matter, policy declarations, conference programmes, the Nunn May case, etc., with a few MS notes by Frisch.
See also Pugwash Conferences, F.101.
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Badash, L. 1965
Badura-Skoda 1972. Frisch's draft only.
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Includes accounts of life in Birmingham and Liverpool.
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Baldinger, E. 1954, 1955
Barbour, J.B. 1963-66, 1974
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Bentwich, N. 1951
Bethe, H.A. 1950, 1978. Correspondence 1978 is photocopy letter from Bethe on his recollections of 'compound nucleus' concept in 1934-35.
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1951 (card), 1953–56
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Mainly with colleagues to obtain some financial help for Marietta Blau, a distinguished Viennese scientist who had worked on nuclear emulsions.
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Bloch, F. 1935 (1 letter only)
1948-67
1973 (Frisch's carbon only)
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Boggild was a colleague of Frisch at the Niels Bohr Institute in the 1930s and remained there.
Includes card, October 1945, signed by Bohr and other colleagues, and letter March 1948 with message from Lise Meitner.
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Bohr, N. and Bohr, M.
Scientific and personal correspondence from Niels and Margarethe Bohr.
Includes 1 p. 'N. Bohr's 1930 lectures on quantum mechanics (From notes by E. Krüger and T. Bjerge)'.
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Bondi, H. 1959
Frisch's carbon only.
Bondy, H.F. 1942
Born, M. 1955-63
Braddick, H.J.J. 1954
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1947, 1950, 1962, 1967
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Brent (formerly Josephy) had worked at Hamburg under Stern at the same time as Frisch. Correspondence is mainly re photographs and film of distinguished scientists.
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Personal and scientific correspondence with Egon and Hanni Bretscher, mainly re Harwell.
Includes obituary tribute to Bretscher, written by Frisch for *Nature*, 1973.
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Brings, T.H. 1947
Broch, E. 1945
Broda, E. 1954
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Brode, B. n.d. Letter at Los Alamos, arranging a meeting to discuss 'Peace after this war'.
Brookes, A.M.P. 1979
Brostrøm, K.J. 1961
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Bugg, D. 1958
Buneman, O. 1947, 1950
Byer, T. 1967
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Campbell, A.J. 1958
Casimir, H.B.G. 1948
Cassels, J.M. 1957
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Scientific and personal correspondence. Includes 'Some stories about Sir James Chadwick (reported by O.R. Frisch, 1976)'.
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Clark, R.W. 1959-60
Cochran, W. n.d.
Cockburn, R. 1950-51 and n.d.
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1946, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1967
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Cohen, S. 1975
Conrad, R. 1934
Copley, E. 1977
Corbière, H. 1953. Request for impressions of Einstein for proposed book 'Homage to Einstein'.
Cüer, P. 1953
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Darwin, C.G. 1954 (Frisch's carbon only)
1963 (from Frisch to Lady Darwin)
Davies, D.J.M. 1970
Deakin, C. 1965
Dee, P.I. 1952
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Delbrück, M. 1950, 1978-79
Deutsch, M. 1948
Devons, S. 1955, 1965, n.d.
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Dobbs, H.A.C. 1965
Dott, H.M. 1971
Droste, J.V. 1954
Duncan, R. 1972
Dunworth, J.V. 1955
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Eaton, C. 1964
Ehrenberg, W. and Ehrenberg, M. 1963-64, 1975
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Eikhoff, L. (later Montgomery)
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1962–64, 1973
See also Estermann correspondence in the Supplemental Papers, F.149.
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1945–51, 1965, 1975
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Feld, B.T. 1948
Feldau, W.V. 1958, 1959
Feldberg, W. and Feldberg, J., Feldberg, K. 1947-52, 1960-61
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Feynman, R. P.
One letter only, re work at Los Alamos.
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Fischer, R. 1959
Fleischmann, R. 1956-57
Fokker, A.D. 1966, 1969
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1934, n.d., 1952 (re Franck's birthday)
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Fraser, R. 1947, 1963
Freeman, J. 1955
Freudenreich, R.v. 1965, 1973. Letter 1965 is to Lise Meitner, re history of her work in 1930s; letter 1973 is re work of P.A.M. Dirac.
Friesen, I.v. 1948-49
Frisch, D.H. 1963
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Gang, M. 1940, 1951
Garlick, G.F.J. 1952-61, 1974 (Frisch's carbon only). Correspondence 1961 includes Garlick's draft note for *Nature* on Pringsheim's 80th birthday.
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Frisch met Evan Gill in Liverpool (see *What little I remember*, p.140) and they remained life-long friends. The correspondence includes several references to the work of Eric Gill, brother of Evan.
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Gill, J.M. 1977. Re possible research projects to help the blind.
Givon, S. 1967
Glaser, D. 1977
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Gold, T. 1952, 1955. Correspondence 1955 is a brief exchange on the 'continuous creation' controversy.
Goldstein, L. 1922
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Correspondence arising from a lecture by Frisch to British Society for the Philosophy of Science. Includes a note by Good 'A new model for polarization', and summary and 8 pp. typescript draft paper by Good 'Quantum Mechanics and Yoga' to be given at a Symposium on 'Yoga and Parapsychology', Lucknow.
Also included are typescript copies of 3 short talks by Frisch 'Why are physical laws what they are?' (1952), 'Why is quantum theory?' (1953), 'Why are there laws of nature?' (1954).
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1949, n.d., 1973–76
On relativistic quantum mechanics; few letters dated.
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Gordon, W. 1939
Gray, R. 1973
Green, C. 1963-64
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Gregory, R.L. 1978
Grimble, A.F. 1952-53
Groth, W. 1964-65
Gustafson, T. 1946
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F.51: 1948, 1957, 1963–65, 1979
F.52: n.d. Photocopies of letters by Hahn written December 1938; letters of 19 and 21 are to Lise Meitner, card of 23 is to Eva von Bergius, letter of 28 to 'Liebe Kollegin'.
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Halban, H. 1953
Halpern, J. 1954-55
Hanle, P.A. 1977. Re E. Schrödinger.
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Hearst, W. 1951, 1953
Hein, P. 1948
Henriques, O.M. 1949
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See *What little I remember*, p.137.
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Herzog, G. 1945
Hesse, M.B. 1962, 1977
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1935–50, and 1966
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Hill, R. 1977
Hintz, N. 1953
Hirsch, F. 1961
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Hodgson, P.E. 1954
Hoffer-Jensen, S. 1945-49, 1975. Letter of 1945 contains news of Niels Bohr Institute, during and after the Second World War.
Hogben, E. 1966, 1978
Holland, A.E. 1973, 1977, 1979
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Personal correspondence, with accounts of work in Birmingham, Liverpool, London, life in wartime Britain, etc. Not all letters are dated.
F.61: 1939
F.62: 1940
F.63: 1941–42
F.64: 1943, various dates 1947–78
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Houtermans, F.G. n.d., 1948
Howorth, M. 1955
Huber, P. 1954
Hutchinson, G.W. various dates 1959-78
Hutten, E.H. 1947, 1961
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Irving, D. 1966. Request for comments on history of uranium fission.
Isenstein, H. 1968, 1973, 1978. Isenstein was a Danish sculptor and the folder includes photographs of his portrait busts of A. Wheeler and E. Rutherford. Correspondence 1973 is re drawing of Frisch by Isenstein sent to Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Jacobsen, J.C.G. 1947, 1948. Includes a little correspondence with other members of the Jacobsen family.
Jahn, H.A. 1952
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1947–49, 1966
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Jellis, R.E. 1973-75
Jensen, E. 1952
Jensen, H.D. 1955
Jentschke, W. 1961
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Jones, R.V. 1965
Josephson, B.D. 1960, 1977
Junghaus, J. 1948
Jungk, R. 1956
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Katz, N. 1945
Kemmer, N. 1964, 1970
Khanna, R.C. 1964
King, W.J. 1962
Kirchner, F. 1932
Klemperer, O. 1934
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Koch, J. 1964
Köllmer-Langhammer, E. 1954. Re Frisch's father
Kopfermann, H. 1949, 1955
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Personal and scientific correspondence, re meetings, publications, research projects, nuclear energy programme, etc.
F.74: 1946–66
F.75: c 1941. Photocopy of Kowarski's Affidavit to the Patent Compensation Board, United States Atomic Energy Commission, describing his research in France and Britain (to January-March 1941).
F.76: 1967-78
See also Kowarski, L. in the supplemental papers, F.152.
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Lauritsen, T. 1950
Lawson, D. 1963
Lawson, J.D. 1955
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Lemmerich, J. 1978
Lenz, 1954. Frisch's carbon only.
Levi, H. 1975. Recollections of work at Niels Bohr Institute. See *What little I remember*, p.89.
Lewkowicz, A. 1970
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Lisco, L. various dates
(Daughter of J. Franck; includes recollections of Franck, Lise Meitner, etc.)
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Littauer, R. 1949
Lohde, H. 1972
Longuet-Higgins, H.C. 1978
Lonsdale, K. 1958
Lorenz, K. 1964
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Includes some research papers.
See also McCutchen, C. in the supplemental papers, F.153.
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Manley, J.H. 1963, 1970
Marshak, R. 1950. Frisch's carbon only.
Massey, H.S.W. n.d.
Mattauch, J. 1952
Mayr, G. 1953, 1960
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Menuhin, Y. 1960
Metropolis, N.C. 1979
Miller, F. 1967-69
Milner, E.V. 1970
Møller, C. 1970
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Morrison, P. 1946, 1950
Moss, N. 1978
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1946, 1954–63
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Motz, H. 1950, 1954
Neurath, M.L. 1954-55, 1960
Newton-John, I. various dates 1954-70. (Daughter of M.Born; includes some recollections.)
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O'Gorman, M. 1950
Oliphant, M.L.E. 1947, 1977-78
Oppenheimer, J.R. 1951
Ortner, G. 1954
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Re bubble-chamber and scanning research.
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Pais, A. 1950, 1974-76
Paneth, F.A. 1939
Parkinson, W.C. 1953
Pauli, W. 1944, 1949
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1945–48, 1955, 1979
Includes a little correspondence 1978 for Lady Peierls's 70th birthday.
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Peyrou, N. 1956
Pickavance, T.G. 1952, 1959
Pihl, M. n.d.
Pincher, H.C. 1949
Ping, W.C. 1962-74
Pirenne, M.H. 1975
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1934, 1935, 1946, 1947
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1935, various dates 1961–77
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Poschmann, H. 1954
Powell, C.F. 1947-53
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Pringsheim, P. 1961. Includes photograph of Pringsheim as a young child and an offprint of an early (1930) article on Luminescence.
Pryce, M.H.L. 1956, 1961
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Przibram was Frisch's supervisor for his doctorate in Vienna in 1926. Correspondence 1973 is with Przibram's family and others after his death.
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Miscellaneous material re meetings, conferences, policy statements, etc., some annotated by Frisch; includes a little MS material, notes taken at conferences, brief correspondence.
See also Atomic Scientists' Association, F.5 and Series E, Visits and conferences.
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Dr. Gabriele Rabel was an Austrian scientist, contemporary with Lise Meitner, who attended Einstein's lectures in Berlin. Folder includes offprint of her article 'Die Geschichte des "Cavendish"' 1946, miscellaneous correspondence re her house near Cambridge bought with the help of Frisch and other friends, and its disposal after her death in 1963.
(See *What little I remember*, pp.35-36, and a note by Mrs. U. Frisch about Dr. Rabel enclosed in the folder).
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1934, 1947, 1949, 1950
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Rainer, A.C. 1939-41, 1950. Mainly re Frisch's parents.
Ramsey, N.F. 1950, 1954
Rasmussen, E. 1946, 1949
Ratcliffe, J.A. 1969-70, 1974
Raven, C.E. n.d. c. 1969
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Rehder, M-L. 1967
Reines, F. 1962. Frisch's carbon only.
Richards, H.T. 1950
Ridley, B. 1955, 1976
Rieser, L.M. 1946, 1979
Riley, K.F. n.d.
See also Reines, F. in the supplemental papers, F.154.
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Rona, E. 1935. One letter only.
Rosbaud, P. 1959-63
And one letter 1942 from Rosbaud, H.
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1949, 1970–74.
Correspondence 1970 includes copy of events at 'Copenhagen Conferences', 1929-37.
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Reporting research on mesons.
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Rotblat, J. various dates 1946-78. General scientific correspondence, including some material re Pugwash conferences.
Rothschild, N.M.V. 1952, 1962
See also Series E, Visits and conferences, and Rotblat in the supplemental papers, F.154.
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1952–54, 1964, 1975
See also the Royal Society in the supplemental papers, F.156
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Rozental, S. 1949, 1963-64, 1968. Correspondence 1968 is re retirement of Betty Schultz who had been secretary to Niels Bohr Institute for 50 years.
Sauter, F. 1949
Scarrott, G.G. 1974, 1979
Scherrer, 1952. Frisch's carbon only.
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Schiemann, E. 1947. A friend of Lise Meitner in Berlin. One letter only. See also A.138.
Schiller, K.K. 1979
Schnurmann, R. 1933, various dates 1964-78
Schreiber, S. 1953
Schrödinger, E. 1960
For more E. Schiemann papers, see Lise Meitner miscellaneous papers
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Seelig, C. 1955-56
Segré, E. 1933, 1979. Correspondence 1979 contains recollections of atomic energy research.
Serber, R. 1948
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Simon, F.E. 1946-47, 1951, 1961-62. Correspondence 1961 is from N. Arms re her biography of Simon.
Simons, L. 1947
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Esther Simpson was for many years Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, in which capacity Frisch first became acquainted with her. She also shared his love of music, often referred to in the letters.
Correspondence 1965-66 refers to the presentation fund on her retirement in 1966, correspondence 1978 refers to later presentation.
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Smith, C. 1950
Smith, K.F. 1964
Snow, C.P. 1949
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Sondheimer, F. 1976
Sopka, K.R. 1977. Biographies of Lise Meitner.
Spencer-Palmer, H. 1979. Enclosing humorous account of wartime work at I.C.I.
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Stafford, G.H. 1948
Staub, H. and Staub, E. 1946, 1947
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1934, 1945, 1964–65
Letter of 21 March 1945 sends Frisch $1,000 'as a kind of secondary of my Nobel prize' in view of his contribution to the work on 'molecular rays'.
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Strassmann, F. 1969-70. Brief correspondence re visits.
Strauss, 1939
Street, G. 1968, 1971. Re work at Cavendish Laboratory.
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1947–48, 1965
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Correspondence and diagrams re inventions. Includes copies of British Patents for 'Sound Operated Electric Gear' filed by Telcs 1945.
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Thompson, E.P. 1975
Thomson, G.P. n.d. c.1964
Titterton, E.W. 1950, 1952
Todd, W.M. 1976
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See also Trenn, T. J. in the supplemental papers, F.157.
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Tuck, J.L. 1950, 1973
Turner, L.A. 1951, 1973
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Ulam, S.M. 1945, 1946
Urbach, F. 1933-34, 1950. Includes a reference written by Frisch in 1940 for Urbach to teach in U.S.A.
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Vellacott, E. and Vellacott, P. 1947, and various undated letters
Voigt, H. 1948
Volkmann, E. various dates 1964-79
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Walgate, R. 1972, 1974
Warhanek, H. 1954, 1957
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Warnow, J. 1974
Weart, S. 1975
Both re history of physics.
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Wechsler, R. and Wechsler, J. 1939-42. A friend of Frisch's parents.
Weinberger, L. 1954
Weiss, E. 1948
Weiss, J. 1947-49
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Weisskopf, V. and Weisskopf, E. various dates
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Werner, S. 1949
Wheeler, J.A. 1964, 1970, 1978. Correspondence 1964 is re nomination of Frisch for National Science Foundation professorship; correspondence 1970 includes Frisch's note of a lecture by Wheeler on 'pregeometry'.
Whitehouse, J. 1951-53, 1962. Re publications.
Wick, G.C. c.1939. Refers to Frisch's letters in *Nature*, 1939.
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Mainly re historical writings by Wiechowski.
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1951–54, 1959–60, 1978
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Wilson, R. 1960. Frisch's carbons only.
Winklehaus, A.F. 1973-79
Winter, A. 1938, 1978
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F.143: 1918–39, 1947–51
F.144: 1952–62. Includes correspondence re Winter with M.L.E. Oliphant.
F.145: c1942-c1961. Miscellaneous verse translations by Winter (some with dates 1942-47, and 1961), programmes of concerts at which he played, photographs, etc.
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Wolf, H. 1975. Re possible research and inventions.
Woodside, R. 1973
Wooster, W.A. 1978
Wu, C.S. 1973-74
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First-name, unidentified or missing signatures.
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The 1973 correspondence is with Estermann's widow re his unfinished book on the history of molecular beam research.
See also Estermann, I., F.36.
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Going: Telegram only.
Goldhaber: Christmas card only, from Brookhaven National Laboratory. The card celebrates the establishment of the existence of a second type of neutrino in June 1962 by a Brookhaven-Columbia team.
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Includes copy of letter from Hinton to E. Teller.
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1966. Carbon copy of letter from Kowarski to J. D. Cockcroft re Kowarski's contribution (not enclosed) to a presentation volume on the occasion of J. Chadwick's 75th birthday.
1967. Article by J. Combrisson on physics in France, annotated for Frisch by Kowarski.
See also Kowarski, L. and Kowarski, K., F.74-76
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McCutchen, C., nd
Melcher, Horst, 1979
See also McCutchen, C., F.84.
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Reines, F., re detecting neutrinos.
Rotblat, J., re Pugwash.
See also Reines in Rehder - Riley, F.105, and Rotblat in F.112.
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Royal Society 1954
Royon, Betty 1961-62
See also Royal Society, F. 113.
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Re the case of her husband who was imprisoned 'on a charge of participating in a conspiracy to transmit scientific secrets to the Russians'.
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1961 item is note with 'promised text from Newton'.
See also Trenn, T. J. F.130.
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This series consists of photographs, film, glass plate slides, and audiotapes. The photographs at G.1-20 include one folder of negatives at G.15. The photographs found at G.1-8 were originally housed in envelopes with titles in Frisch's hand, but they are only a partial guide to the present contents. Some photographs are dated and identified on their verso. Another photograph, G.32, arrived as part of the supplemental papers given by Ulla Frisch after the main group of papers.
The films at G.21-22 include some which were taken at post-war physics conferences. The glass lecture slides at G.23-28 are in boxes with labels but some slides do not conform to their box labels. G.34-35 are film slides and are part of the supplemental papers.
The audiotapes are housed as G.29-31, and G.33 (the latter is part of the supplemental papers).
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No photograph of Kowarski remains in the envelope.
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Includes photographs of Otto Hahn receiving the Fermi Award.
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Together with 2 early photographs and a postcard.
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Some identified on verso.
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1965, 1967, 1969 and n.d
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As a child with his parents, 1930s, 1940s, lecturing in Vienna, 1969, etc.
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Some photographs identified on verso. Slides probably assembled by Frisch for lectures.
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Wooden cigar box labelled 'Films taken by ORF 1937 Tisville [sic] Copenhagen and other conferences'.
Contains 15 rolls of film negatives, almost all identified and dated variously 1937-39.
Miscellaneous cut film negatives are also included in the box.
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The boxes carry the following labels, but do not conform to the indications on the boxes.
G.24: '1. Portraits'
G.25: '2. Groups'
G.26: '3. (Radioactivity) Portraits'
G.27: 'Bragg to Squires. Fermi-Surface'
G.28: '8 to 17. Particles'
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Recorded in August 1968 and published by Spring Green Multimedia in 1974.
G.29: 'Distinguishing the Main Types of Radioactivity'
G.30: 'The Origin of Nuclear Fission'
See also C.45, 'Distinguishing the main types of radioactivity' typescript and correspondence
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On side 2 of tape.
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See also Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Spiegel, A.251
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The boxes are inscribed 'R. Astr.', 'Time & Relat.', 'Parity 2', 'Protein Surface Physics', 'Fermi Surface (2), 'El. Mic.', 'Dragon' and 'Sweepnik'
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