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1945–48, 1955, 1979

Includes a little correspondence 1978 for Lady Peierls's 70th birthday.

Contains miscellaneous bundles of calculations, mainly in Thomson's hand. None are dated, but some relate to a letter from Thomson to R. Peierls, 13 August 1940, a copy of which is included in the folder. Also included is a letter from J.L. Michiels, 12 January 1940.

A later note by Thomson on the front of the folder reads `Most of my papers on this subject are at Churchill College' [Cambridge]. Churchill College holds one box of papers relating to the MAUD Committee which Thomson deposited at the request of Sir John Cockcroft in 1966. Permission to consult these should be obtained from The Archivist, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Symposium on the history of nuclear physics, University of Minnesota.

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'.

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.

Symposium on the retirement of R.E. Peierls, Oxford, July 1974, at which Frisch spoke.

Correspondence, programme, participants.

Caricatures identified by Frisch are 'Lew Kowarski', 'Rudi Peierls?', 'Hans Staub', 'Self portrait?', 'Fermi'.

B.125: 1940
B.126: 1941–42

Paterson, R. 1940. Re supplies of radon.

Peierls, R.E. 1939

Placzek, G. 1939

Memoir by R.E. Peierls: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 27, 1981.