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Kapitza, Piotr Leonidovich, 1894 - 1984 (physicist)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1894 - 1984

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Papers of Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KPZA
Scope and Contents

The material was mainly collected by Professor David Schoenberg while he was writing the Royal Society Memoir of Kapitza in 1985. Régis Brun provided additional correspondence to, from and about Kapitza in 2007. This is a small collection of papers, pamphlets, letters and extracts from published sources relating to Kapitza. It includes xerox copies.

Dates: 1900 - 1994
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others, 1928-07

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/4/6
Scope and Contents

Comprising 23 black-and-white photographs.
Photographs of a meeting in Cambridge, including Irène Joliot-Curie, Walter Bothe and Hans Geiger.
Also with photographs of Lise Meitner and Piotr Kapitza outside the newly constructed Mond Laboratory (6) and Lise Meitner having tea at Charles Ellis's house (3).

Dates: 1928-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.