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Photomechanical copy of Niels Bohr’s 3 June 1939 letter to Oliphant, proposing that Frisch make a short stay at his laboratory. He also states that he believes that using uranium to make a bomb would involve a tremendous task indeed, but suggests that using uranium as a moderate source of heat or as a neutron source.

Journal created for Niels Bohr's 50th birthday. It contains an article by Frisch and G. Placzek, 'Zur Frage der Messbarkeit des Landau'schen Schönheitskoeffizienten'.

Includes a cutting about a concert given to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (A.E.R.E) with mention of Frisch playing a Mozart piano concerto; and a special issue of Physics Today celebrating the Niels Bohr Centennial, Oct. 1985.

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

Includes two early notebooks of poems, humorous poems for celebrations in Bohr's laboratory, etc. (in various hands).

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)'.

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).

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.

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.

Carbon copies of two letters.

Two typescript drafts (1p and 3pp) with MS annotation of an article published in Nature, Lond., 143 (1939), 330.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963. Some items used by Frisch for notes and caricatures of participants.

From the Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963.

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.

Photocopy of a lecture at the Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 8-13 July 1963.

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.

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.