Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers include: material on Professor Meitner's many honours; diaries; notebooks, including laboratory notebooks, scientific memoranda, calculations and lecture notes; offprints of articles; correspondence, including general and miscellaneous correspondence and correspondence with family and colleagues; material on the Nobel Prize, mainly recommendations and descriptions of work by candidates; birthday greetings; photographs; personal papers, including school reports, official documents...

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Presented to Lise Meitner on her 50th birthday by colleagues at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. It contains portrait photographs of her colleagues, including Otto Hahn.

Scope and Contents Comprising 21 black-and-white photographs and 1 modern copy print. Including photographs of the Meitner family, undated (1); a school group, including Lise Meitner, 1888 (1); Lise Meitner as a girl sitting at a bench, undated (1); a group, possibly students, including Lise Meitner, 1905 (1); Lise Meitner with a man, possibly Gustav Hertz, hiking in the country, 1906 (1); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in the laboratory at Emil Fischer's Chemistry Institute in Berlin, 1908 (5); Lise Meitner...

Scope and Contents Comprising 36 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Lise Meitner in the country with Eva von Bahr-Bergius, 1913 (2); Lise Meitner in the garden of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, 1913 (6); Lise Meitner with a group in Wartburg, 1913 (1); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in the laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, 1913 (2); Lise Meitner in an open air restaurant or tea garden, 1913 (1); Lise Meitner hiking with Elisabeth or...

Scope and Contents Comprising 34 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Niels Bohr's visit to the Wednesday colloquium in Berlin, with Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Hans Geiger, Gustav Hertz and James Franck among others, April 1920 (4); a farewell celebration for James Franck, including Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Walter Grotrian, Gustav Hertz and Fritz Haber, December 1920 (4); Lise Meitner on a bicycle, possibly in Berlin-Dahlem, 1920 (4); a group in Munich, possibly including...

Scope and Contents Comprising 34 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of staff at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, including Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, June-July 1924 (4); a Bunsentagung conference in Göttingen, 1924 (1); Lise Meitner on holiday with friends, August 1925 (3); an audience in Göttingen wearing masks and party hats, including Max Planck, 1925 (1); a meeting in Tübingen, including Paul Ewald, June 1926 (3); a holiday group at Silvaplana, including...

Scope and Contents Comprising 43 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Otto Hahn giving a lecture, March 1930 (1); a party, possibly a departmental Christmas party, 1930 (1); a meeting or holiday in the mountains in Switzerland, near Rigi, including Lise Meitner, Rudolf Peierls, Walter Bothe and Irène Joliot-Curie, May 1931 (8); a gathering in Zurich, June 1931 (7); the first international conference on nuclear physics in Rome, including Niels Bohr and Marie Curie, September 1931 (7); a...

Scope and Contents Comprising 32 black-and-white photographs and 1 original negative. Including photographs of Lise Meitner with colleagues in Königsberg, February 1932 (1); a meeting in Münster, including Lise Meitner and Ernest Rutherford, May 1932 (2); Lise Meitner on holiday in the mountains, August 1932 (2); a party, possibly a departmental Christmas party, including Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, 1932 (1); a dinner of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft in Berlin, including Lise Meitner and Fritz...

Scope and Contents Comprising 38 black-and-white photographs and 2 original negatives. Including photographs of Lise Meitner in the country, April 1934 (2); a party, possibly a departmental party, February 1935 (2); Lise Meitner on holiday in San Vigilio di Marebbe, with Erwin and Nelly Planck, 1935 (12); a group of laboratory staff, including Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, 1935 (1); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in the garden at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, 1936 (1); a group in...

Scope and Contents Comprising 39 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Lise Meitner with friends in Kottby, May 1947 (1); a conference, possibly in Copenhagen, including Lise Meitner, Niels Bohr, Otto Frisch, Rudolph Peierls and Wolfgang Pauli, September 1947 (2); Lise Meitner with Irène Joliot-Curie at the commemoration in Paris of the 10th anniversary of Ernest Rutherford's death, November 1947 (1); the 8th Solvay Physics Conference in Brussels, including Lise Meitner, Niels Bohr, Rudolf...

Scope and Contents Comprising 42 black-and-white photographs and 1 colour photograph. Including photographs of Otto Hahn with Thomas Kuhn, July 1955 (1); Lise Meitner on holiday in the mountains near Sassal Mason with friends, July 1955 (3); Lise Meitner receiving the Otto Hahn Prize, September 1955 (2); Lise Meitner at a Luciafeier in Sweden, December 1955 (7); Lise Meitner with Professor Haberlandt, 1955 (2); Lise Meitner at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz (successor to the Kaiser Wilhelm...

Scope and Contents Comprising 38 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Lise Meitner at the celebration in Berlin of the centenary of Max Planck's birth, with Otto Hahn, Gustav Hertz, Max von Laue and Elisabeth and Gertrud Schiemann, April 1958 (10); Lise Meitner and James Franck in Staufen, May 1958 (1); Lise Meitner at the 2nd United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva, with Fritz Strassmann and Isidor Rabi, September 1958 (3); Lise Meitner and...

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Comprising 25 black-and-white photographs and 3 colour photographs.
Including photographs of Lise Meitner in a garden with Nelly Planck and friends, June 1961 (4); Lise Meitner on holiday with Nelly Planck and friends, 1961 (2); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn at the 12th Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners in Lindau, with James Franck, Werner Heisenberg, Isidor Rabi, Niels Bohr and Max Born, June 1962 (19); and Lise Meitner at an unidentified official occasion, undated [1962] (3).

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Comprising 17 black-and-white photographs of busts of Lise Meitner, with accompanying correspondence from Stockholm and the Hahn-Meinter Institute in Berlin-Wannsee, 1960, and 1 black-and-white and 1 colour photograph of Lise Meitner's gravestone, undated [1968].
Also with a photograph of a bust of Otto Hahn.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Comprising photographs of friends and colleagues sent to Lise Meitner. Some of these photographs may have been kept originally with their accompanying correspondence but they have been separated out at a later date.