Oliphant, Marcus Laurence Elwin, Sir, 1901 - 2000 (Knight, physicist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1901 - 2000
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
File
Correspondence about his career, 1935 - 1946
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RNDL 4/2
Scope and Contents
Comprising a testimonial from the General Electric Company Ltd (GEC), 1935; correspondence with Ernest Rutherford about a post at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1936 (2); correspondence about the Warren Research Fellowship of the Royal Society, which John Randall held at Birmingham University, from 1937; correspondence about applications for other academic posts, 1940-2; correspondence and press cuttings about his appointment as Professor of Natural Philosophy at St Andrew's...
Dates:
1935 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Photographs of her nephew, Otto Frisch, 1930 - 1964
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/3/3
Scope and Contents
Comprising 52 black-and-white photographs and 12 colour photographs.
Including photographs of Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch hiking in the Harz mountains, 1935 (8); Otto Frisch in a laboratory with colleagues in Copenhagen, undated [1930s] (3); Otto Frisch travelling in a train with colleagues, possibly Mark Oliphant and Rudolf Peierls, in England (photograph marked "Birmingham"), undated [early 1940s] (1); Otto Frisch with his aunt, Lise Meitner, his wife, Ulla (née Blau), and...
Dates:
1930 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.