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Letter to Adams, Walter 1933-1936, 1936-04-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7653/1/i/A/17
Scope and Contents Rutherford has spoken to Mr [Robert] Schnurmann, working on 'molecular rays' in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory [in the University of Cambridge] under Mr Fraser. ICI has stopped contributing to the work and Fraser is looking for another job. Schnurmann was paid £50 per month to 1st January 1937 plus £90 from the British Fund for German Jewry, to end on 30th June 1936 but wishes to work to the end of 1936 so that he can submit his PhD. Rutherford finds it difficult to know were...
Dates: 1936-04-24
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The MS Add.7653 Ernest Rutherford papers are owned by the University of Cambridge and are open for consultation under the normal regulations of the University Library's manuscripts collections; see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/. The only limitations to use are in respect of the low-level radioactivity of a small number of items in the collection. Further advice is available from the Manuscripts Reading Room staff.
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Sir Gordon Sutherland: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8353
Scope and Contents The collection provides some documentation for most aspects of Sutherland's career, apart from his two periods at the University of Michigan, for which there is virtually no material. For the 1930s there is extensive correspondence, but no laboratory records, and for the wartime period there is a very full sequence of letters exchanged with H.W. Thompson, 1937-1947. Section C contains papers relating to the National Physical Laboratory, and Section D documents Sutherland's involvement with...
Dates: 1921-1982 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Some items are restricted at the discretion of the Keeper of Manuscripts