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FRISCH, Otto Robert (1904-1979). Nuclear physicist |
Research with Otto Stern 1930-33; Birkbeck College 1933-34; research with Niels Bohr, Copenhagen 1934-39; research with James Chadwick 1940-43; head of the Critical Assembly Group on the Los Alamos project 1943-46; head of Nuclear Physics Division of AERE Harwell 1946-47; Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge University 1947-72; Fellow of Trinity College 1948-79; FRS 1948
Biographical and personal papers 1904-81; family papers 1899-1979; research papers 1924-79; lectures and publications 1946-79; correspondence 1918-79; papers relating to film, television and radio broadcasts 1947-79; photographs, slides and tapes. Understandably, little survives of the Los Alamos period.
70 boxes. Listed by the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists. Some material is closed.
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Trinity College Library, October 1997.