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Photographs of Lise Meitner and others, 1930 - 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/4/7

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 group of Nobel Prizewinners, including Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Max von Laue, November 1931 (1); Lise Meitner looking out of the window of her apartment in residential accommodation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, December 1931 (1); departmental outings, including Lise Meitner, Fritz Strassmann and Otto Hahn, 1931-3 (8); Lise Meitner in a group in Venice, including Walter Bothe, 1931 (1); a meeting at Bad Elster, including Lise Meitner, Walter Bothe, Robert Andrews Millikan and James Franck, 1931 (5); Lise Meitner at a window, possibly the window of the laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, 1931 (1); and Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn and Edith Hahn in a photographic montage, perhaps in the form of an atomic model, 1931 (2).

Dates

  • Creation: 1930 - 1931

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

1 file(s)

Language of Materials

English