Niels Bohr material elsewhere, 1912-1962


The collection has two parts:
1. Copies of Bohr's correspondence and manuscripts held elsewhere. This part comprises material obtained in the process of editing Niels Bohr Collected Works as well as spontaneous donations from correspondents, researchers and archives.
2. Copies of material on Bohr, for instance, letters by visiting scientists describing their experience with Bohr and at his institute; material from other archives relating to Niels Bohr
Although there has as yet been no attempt to systematically collect material for this collection, it is constantly being added to.

At present part 1 of the collection includes correspondence of (with location of originals in parenthesis):
Eduardo Amaldi, 1936-1942 (Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, Rome);
Svante Arrhenius, 1920-1924 (Centrum för vetenskapshistorie, Stockholm);
British Broadcasting Corporation, 1950, 1957 (BBC Archives);
Karen Blixen, 1955-1958 (Royal Library, Copenhagen);
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, 1920, 1933 (source unknown);
Karl Taylor Compton, 1947 (MIT);
Peter Debye, 1931 (MPG, Berlin);
David Dennison, 1927 (Michigan Historical Collections);
Paul Ehrenfest, 1925, 1926 (Riiksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis, Leiden);
Albert Einstein, 1927, 1944 (Einstein Duplicate Archive, Princeton; Library of Congress);
Hans v. Euler, 1919 (CVH, Stockholm);
Harry Fett, 1945-1959 (Fett family, Norway);
James Franck, 1933-1955 (Univ. of Chicago Library);
Hans Georg Grimm, 1921-1922 (Deutsches Museum);
Harald Høffding, 1911-1931 (Royal Library, Copenhagen);
Werner Heisenberg, 1931-1960 (Heisenberg Nachlass, Munich);
Peter Kapitza, 1933-1944 (Kapitza Museum, Moscow);
Verlag W. Keiper, 1949 (MPG, Berlin);
Ernest Orlando Lawrence, 1937 (Bancroft Library);
Yoshio Nishina,1930-1948 (Nishina Memorial Foundation, Tokyo);
Nobel Committee, 1916-1935 (CVH, Stockholm);
Robert Oppenheimer, 1946 (Library of Congress);
Carl Wilhelm Oseen, 1911-1930 (CVH, Stockholm);
Friedrich Adolf Paneth, 1913, 1920 (MPG, Berlin);
George P. Pegram, 1937-1939 (Columbia University, Pegram Papers, Box 88);
Rudolf Peierls, 1936-1960 (personal donation);
Rockefeller Foundation, 1933-1945 (Rockefeller Archive Center);
Léon Rosenfeld, 1931-1962 (Rosenfeld Papers, Niels Bohr Archive);
Russian Academy of Sciences, 1935, 1957-1960 (Royal Library, Copenhagen);
Ernest Rutherford, 1916 (source unknown);
Arnold Sommerfeld, 1913-1924 (DM, Berlin);
Edward Teller, (Hoover Institute);
Oswald Veblen, 1938-1939 (Library of Congress);
Johannes Witt-Hansen, 1959 (source unknown);
Hideo Yamamoto, 1939 (personal donation).

Part 2 includes the following material:
Raymond Thayer Birge (Bancroft Library, Berkeley) - annotated transcript of NB's Hitchcock Lecture;
Danish Academy Records (DA, Copenhagen) - archival material on Bohr;
Carlsberg Foundation (Copenhagen) - archival material on Bohr;
O.R.Frisch to Lise Meitner, 1939 (Churchill College, Cambridge);
George Gamow, 1931 (private ownership);
Gamow to Samuel Goudsmit, 1934 (source unknown);
Kapitza Club Guestbook, Cambridge, 1925-1933 (source unknown);
L. Jackson Laslett correspondence, 1938 (Bancroft Library);
Poul Heegard to Mittag Leffler, 1912 (Mittag Leffler Archives, Sweden);
Nevill Francis Mott - letters to family, 1928, 1947 (personal donation);
H.J. Muller to Otto L. Mohr, 1933 (Univ. of Oslo);
John A. Wheeler - family letters, 1934-1935, lecture notes from N.B.'s lectures at Princeton 1937, 1939 (personal donation).

3 boxes. Photocopies. Alphabetical. English, German


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