Møller, Christian. 1904-1980 Møller Papers, 1928-1980

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
Born 1904, Denmark. mag. scient. phys. U. Copenhagen 1929; Dr. phil. 1932 (Zur theorie des Durchgangs schneller Elektronen durch Materie) employ. NBI 1929, sci. ass. 1931, lect. 1933, asso. prof. math. phys. 1940, extord. prof. 1943-75. mem. Comité Scientifique de l'Institut Solvay 1948. Dir. CERN theoretical Study Group, Cph. 1954-57. Mem. CERN Scientific Policy Committee 1959-72. Dir. NORDITA 1957-71. Secr. Royal Danish Acad. of Sciences 1959-80. Died Ordrup, Copenhagen, Denmark 1980.

DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION:
Manuscripts and printed articles comprise about one half of the collection. The correspondence is both scientific and administrative, and reflects Møller's involvement in research, teaching and committee work. The correspondence (1928-1932) with Bethe, Delbruck, Heisenberg and Mott relating to C. Møller's thesis on the passage of fast electrons through matter is filmed on SHQP mf.59. The collection includes a correspondence (1952-1955) with Wolfgang Pauli in a folder called "A convergent Meson Theory".
Correspondents include: Hans Albrecht Bethe, Homi J. Bhabha, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Clive Champion, Max Delbrück, Enrico Fermi, Adriaan Daniel Fokker, Ralph Howard Fowler, Otto Robert Frisch, George Gamow, Werner Heisenberg, Jacob Christian Georg Jacobsen, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Pascual Jordan, Fritz Kalckar, Nicholas Kemmer, Oskar Klein, Hendrik (Hans) Anton Kramers, Nevill Francis Mott, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Abraham Pais, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Alexander Proca, Léon Rosenfeld, Adalbert Wojciech Rubinowicz, Victor Frederik Weisskopf, John Archibald Wheeler, Evan James Williams, Hideki Yukawa

12 boxes. Correspondence arranged alphabetically. Manuscripts not yet ordered.
Correspondence registered in database. English, Danish, German