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Scientific correspondence: Providencia, J. da, 1975-1977

Providencia worked at Birmingham (Bird of Passage, p. 244) before returning to Coimbra, Portugal, where Peierls later visited on several occasions. Many of Providencia's letters are in longhand and undated. Correspondence includes detailed comments by Peierls on papers and research ideas by Providencia, also on proposed visits, and on the political/economic situation in Portugal.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.72
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1975-1977
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Scientific correspondence: Providencia, J. da, 1984-1989

Correspondence includes detailed comments by Peierls on papers and research ideas by Providencia, also on proposed visits, and on the political/economic situation in Portugal.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.73
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1984-1989
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Scientific correspondence: Providencia, J. da, 1991-1992

Correspondence includes detailed comments by Peierls on papers and research ideas by Providencia, also on proposed visits, and on the political/economic situation in Portugal.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.74
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1991-1992
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Scientific correspondence: Radicati, L.A. and G., 1976-1994

Radicati was a post-doctoral research student at Birmingham 1951-1953, later returning to the Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa where Peierls was a regular visitor (see Bird of Passage, pp. 237, 333). Scientific and personal correspondence including letters from Gianna Radicati to Genia Peierls.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.75
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1976-1994
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Scientific correspondence: Rozental, S. and H., 1983, 1988-1990

Recollections and topics in Second World War history, Bohr, Heisenberg, etc. Includes memorial tribute to Rozental by O. Nathan.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.76
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1983, 1988-1990
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Scientific correspondence: Salam, A., 1979-1987

Includes correspondence on early discussions on neutrino mass, 1982, and on the organization of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, 1987.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.77
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1979-1987
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Scientific correspondence: Scheffler, T.B., 1985-1987

Scientific and personal correspondence.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.79
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1985-1987
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Scientific correspondence: Schultz, T.D., 1986-1989

Schultz was a student at Birmingham, later working at IBM, New York. Correspondence mainly on adiabatic treatment of a driven harmonic oscillator. A little personal material.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.80
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1986-1989
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Scientific correspondence: Shoenberg, D., 1983-1991

Includes recollections of P. Kapitza, and Peierls's contribution to an 80th birthday commemorative volume for Shoenberg recalling their association from 1935.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.81
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1983-1991
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Scientific correspondence: Simpson, E., 1983-1994

Mainly personal correspondence, with news and recollections of refugees helped by the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning of which Simpson was the Secretary. Also the conferment of honorary degrees from the Universities of London and Leeds, and the publication of her memoirs Refugee Scholars (ed. R.M. Cooper) 1992.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.82
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1983-1994
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Scientific correspondence: Skinner, H.W.B., 1959-1960

Relating to the Rochester conference.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.83
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1959-1960
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Scientific correspondence: Smith, C.S. and A.K., 1984-1989

These were long-term friends of the Peierls from the period at Los Alamos, where Smith was head of the Metallurgy Division (see Bird of Passage, p. 195) Correspondence and papers mainly on history of technology and materials. Includes memorial tribute to Laura Fermi by Alice Kemball Smith.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.84
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1984-1989
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Scientific correspondence: Stapp, H.P., 1984

Discussion of paper by Stapp on 'non-locality'.
Shelfmark: MS. 11619/67/K.85
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1984