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Chadwick, James, Sir, 1891 - 1974 (Knight, physicist)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1891 - 1974

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

2 letters from Sir James Chadwick to R G Stansfield on Lord Rutherford, 1972-08

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MISC 47/1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection comprises a wide variety of material from a number of different sources which have been deemed too small to be considered individual collections in their own right and have been grouped together under the heading "miscellaneous". Subjects covered include First and Second World Wars, the Falklands Campaign, and recollections of Sir Winston Churchill.

Dates: 1972-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Some material within the collection is closed to researchers.
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Photographs of Lise Meitner and others, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/4/13
Scope and Contents

Comprising 29 black-and-white photographs.
Photographs of a meeting in Cambridge, including Lise Meitner, James Chadwick, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolph Peierls, and Erwin Schrödinger

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sir James Chadwick, 1945 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RTBT 2/5/1
Scope and Contents Correspondence between Rotblat and Chadwick with related papers. A large part relates to the running of the laboratory at Liverpool after Rotblat's return from Los Alamos (December 1944); Chadwick remained in the USA as Head of the British Mission attached to Los Alamos and most of his letters 1945-1947 are written from the USA. The plans for re-building at Liverpool, work on the cyclotron, staffing, grants etc. are covered, along with wider issues such as the Nuclear Physics Sub-Committee...
Dates: 1945 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Fonds

The Papers of Sir James Chadwick

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAD
Scope and Contents CHAD I consists of papers and letters relating mainly to Chadwick's atomic energy work. The material in CHAD II is correspondence relating largely to Gonville and Caius, a little scientific correspondence and some mainly ephemeral items with a few articles and offprints. CHAD III contains the scientific notebooks of Sir James Chadwick and Professor Sir Ernest Rutherford as well as correspondence with individuals and about non-Atomic Energy work. CHAD IV contains Chadwick's Atomic Energy...
Dates: 1914 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open (except for marked closures) for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

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Nuclear bomb 1
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