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Re proposed publication of historical work by Lise Meitner and Frisch, 1962.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

Miscellaneous items 1916-18, including travel document, notes, etc.

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).

Miscellaneous items 1930s, re department, lectures, conferences, etc. Includes inventory of Lise Meitner's property as required of Jews, 1938.

Award of prize by Swedish Vetenskapsakademiens (1945) and City of Vienna Prize (1947).

Correspondence of Frisch and S. Eklund (Director-General, International Atomic Energy Authority) re Lise Meitner's settling in Britain, etc. 1959-79.

Correspondence of Frisch and others on affairs of Lise Meitner, 1960-65.

Correspondence of Frisch and others, mainly from prospective biographers of Lise Meitner requesting information, access to papers.

Miscellaneous biographical articles, and obituary tributes 1958, 1968. Includes Frisch's correspondence with colleagues re Festschrift for Lise Meitner's 80th birthday 1958.

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.

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

Envelope of photographs.

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.

Envelope of invitations, faire-part, etc. Various dates.

Miscellaneous printed material, scientific and personal, various dates.

Shorter unidentified material.

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'

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.

Heavily corrected MS draft, headed 'American Association for Scientific Research for Women', 1929, probably related to award of Ellen Richards prize.

Typescript with MS inscription at head of first page 'by L.M.?? 1954?'

Pp. 4-6 only of typescript and MS draft. n.d., latest reference 1955.