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Contains 16 Results:
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
Birmingham: letters on possible projects from M. Polanyi and D.R. Hartree, 1940
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.39
The 'Frisch-Peierls Memorandum' on the feasibility of an atomic weapon, was written at Birmingham in March 1940. See MS. 11619/37/D.107.
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1940
Birmingham: letters to his wife during a visit to Canada and USA to exchange news on atomic work, Mar-Apr 1942
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.40
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.
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
Mar-Apr 1942
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
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
Birmingham: shorter correspondence, recollections, etc., 1974-1992
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.43
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1974-1992
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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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.44
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1962-1963
Oxford: letter confirming his appointment to the Wykeham Chair of Physics, 3 Jul 1962
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.45
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).
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
3 Jul 1962
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
Oxford: miscellaneous correspondence on departmental affairs, 1974-1991
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.47
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1974-1991
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
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
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
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
New College Oxford: general correspondence, 1974-1989
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.52
Including:
election to Emeritus Fellowship, 1974
Honorary Fellowship of the College, 1980
retirement gift of silver menu holders
information for the College Record
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1974-1989
New College Oxford: miscellaneous social occasions, 1979-1992
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Shelfmark: MS. 11619/4/A.53
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1979-1992