File 14 - 'On the feasibility of coal-driven power stations'

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FRSH/C/14

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'On the feasibility of coal-driven power stations'

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  • 1956–1977 (Creation)

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Frisch, Otto Robert (1904-1979), physicist
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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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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.

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