Photographs of Lise Meitner and others, 1930 - 1931
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
- From the Fonds: Meitner, Lise, 1878 - 1968 (Professor of Nuclear Physics) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Extent
1 file(s)
Language of Materials
English
Finding aid date
2005-04-11 10:15:48+00:00
Subject
- Hahn, Otto, 1879 - 1968 (chemist) (Person)
- Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885 - 1962 (physicist) (Person)
- Franck, James, 1882 - 1964 (physicist) (Person)
- Einstein, Albert, 1879 - 1955 (physicist) (Person)
- Peierls, Rudolf Ernst, Sir, 1907 - 1995 (Knight, physicist) (Person)
- Curie, Irene Joliot (1897-1956, physicist) (Person)
- Curie, Marie, 1867 - 1934 (physicist) (Person)
- Bothe, Walter, 1891 - 1957 (physicist) (Person)
- Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868 - 1953 (physicist) (Person)
- Strassmann, Fritz, 1902 - 1980 (chemist) (Person)
- Laue, Max von, 1879 - 1960 (physicist) (Person)
- Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig, 1858 - 1947 (physicist) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
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