Rozental, Stefan. 1903-1994
Stefan Rozental Papers. ca.1940 - 1989
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE OF CREATOR:
Born in Lodz, Poland. Stayed with his family in Denmark during WW I and
attended Schneekloths School. Dr phil., Cracow U. 1928. Studied u.
Heisenberg in Leipzig 1929-34. Theoretical-physical Inst., Cracow
(1934-38). From 1938 at Copenhagen Inst. for Physics (now Niels Bohr
Institute), apart from 1943-1945 when he was in Sweden. For many years
Rozental was Niels Bohr's assistant, accompanied Bohr on many journeys
and gained great insight on Bohr's efforts to promote international
scientific cooperation, in which he also participated. Mem. CERN
theoretical study group, Copenhagen, 1952-57, asso. dir. 1954. Vicepres.
IUPAP exec. comm. 1966-72; asso. prof. NORDITA 1957-72, mem. bd.
1957-58. Died in Copenhagen.
DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION:
The Rozental papers consist of separate parts:
1) Correspondence, mostly Institute and
administrative; 2) Institute papers, administrative and part of the
Niels Bohr Institute history; 3) Rozental papers closely related to his
cooperation with Bohr; 4) Rozental manuscripts; 5) Minor collections
of reprints, periodicals, treatises, colloquiums and lectures, lecture-
plans, student lists etc. Correspondents include:
Edith Abrahamsen, Aage Bohr, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Margaret Gowing,
Torsten Gustafson, Israeli Embassy; Johannes Hans D. Jensen, Oskar
Klein, Hendrik Anton Kramers, Christian Møller, Jakob Nielsen, Otto
Obling, Abraham Pais, Léon Rosenfeld, Betty Schultz, Weizmann Institute
(Arieh Berger, Gertrude Philipson, Aaron and Ephraim Katchalsky, Amos
de-Shalit, Meyer W. Weisgal), Harald Wergeland.
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