Box 606933004
Container
Contains 16 Results:
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Birmingham: correspondence about his naturalisation (including certificate of naturalisation 27 Mar 1940), his expressed wish to 'make himself useful' to the war effort, including joining the Auxiliary Fire Service (certificate included)., 1939-1940
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.38
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1939-1940
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Birmingham: letters on possible projects from M. Polanyi and D.R. Hartree, 1940
The 'Frisch-Peierls Memorandum' on the feasibility of an atomic weapon, was written at Birmingham in March 1940. See MS. 11619/37/D.107.
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.39
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1940
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Birmingham: letters to his wife during a visit to Canada and USA to exchange news on atomic work, Mar-Apr 1942
Whilst in Canada he managed a brief visit to his children, then evacuated to Toronto (see MSS. 11619/11-12/A.120-128). The letters relate to their children, friends and places visited, food and travel. They do not relate to his work.
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Career
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.40
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
Mar-Apr 1942
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Birmingham: miscellaneous correspondence with former pupils, colleagues and others, and items relating to his personal and departmental career, 1941-1958
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.41
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1941-1958
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Birmingham: brief correspondence about professorships, with F.E. Simon, Oxford, 1955, and G.P. Thomson, Cambridge, 1959, 1955-1959
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.42
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1955-1959
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Birmingham: shorter correspondence, recollections, etc., 1974-1992
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.43
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1974-1992
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Birmingham: letters (carbons only) from Peierls on the future organization and personnel of the department on his move to Oxford, 1962-1963
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Career
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.44
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1962-1963
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Oxford: letter confirming his appointment to the Wykeham Chair of Physics, 3 Jul 1962
He was offered the chair in 1961, accepted in early 1962 but did not take up the appointment until autumn 1963 (see Bird of Passage, pp. 289-290).
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Career
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.45
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
3 Jul 1962
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Oxford: letters and telegrams relating to his retirement, and retirement symposium, 1974
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.46
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1974
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Oxford: miscellaneous correspondence on departmental affairs, 1974-1991
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.47
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1974-1991
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Oxford: correspondence with Sybil Owen (departmental secretary until 1966), 1963-1966
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.48
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1963-1966
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Oxford: correspondence with Margaret Bradfield (his secretary at Oxford 1966-1971), 1968-1971
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.49
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1968-1971
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Oxford: correspondence with Margaret Bradfield, his secretary at Oxford 1966-1971, who typed or proof-read many of his publications after her retirement, 1977-1991
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.50
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1977-1991
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New College Oxford: correspondence with Mark Boxer about the caricature which the College commissioned via Peierls as an alternative to a more formal leaving portrait, 1973-1975
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.51
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1973-1975
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New College Oxford: general correspondence, 1974-1989
Including:
election to Emeritus Fellowship, 1974
Honorary Fellowship of the College, 1980
retirement gift of silver menu holders
information for the College Record
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.52
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1974-1989
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New College Oxford: miscellaneous social occasions, 1979-1992
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.53
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1979-1992