BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
1901-59. Born in Odense, Denmark. Cand. Mag. Copenhagen U., 1926 (phys.,
chem., math., astron.). University Gold Medal, 1928, Dr. phil., 1932
Studied with Fr. Paschen in Berlin 1933. Scientific Ass., Phys. Lab.,
Polyteknisk Læreanstalt, 1926-28, NBI 1928-42; phys. "Radium Station",
1924-34. Prof. phys. Royal Vet. & Agr. College Copenhagen 1942-56,
Copenhagen U., 1956-59. Sec Danish Society for the Dissemination of
Natural Science 1939-53, Mem. Danish Atomic Energy Comm., 1956. Main
area of research: spectroscopy. Published, apart from many scientific
treatises, textbooks and popular books (fx. Atomer og andre Smaating
(with Møller), 1938 - English translation, The World and the Atom, 1940).
DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION:
Two boxes with lecture notes. Some papers relating to Niels Bohr Institute
matters in
1934. One folder of letters - varying from trivia to scientific, no long
exchanges of correspondence; correspondents include: Niels Bjerrum,
C.P.O. Christiansen, Bengt Edlén, Otto Robert Frisch (1939, about a
piano), Rudolf Frerichs, A. Gatterey, Werner Heisenberg, Erik Hulthén,
Pierre Jacquinot, Christian Klixbull-Jørgensen, Martin Knudsen, Hans
Kopfermann, Lesche, Kurt Lidèn, William F. Meggers, K.A. Nissen,
Friedrich Paschen (8 letters in the period 1932-1935), Kolding
Folkeblad, Henry Norris Russell (3 letters, 1934), Manne Siegbahn,
Charlotte Sitterly, Danish state railways, Danish National Library,
Paula Strelitz, Bengt Strömgren, N. Thorkil-Jensen, S. Tolansky
2 boxes. Danish, English, German