Photographs of Lise Meitner with others, 1958 - 1959
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 Otto Hahn at the opening of the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin-Wannsee, March 1959 (3); Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn and Elisabeth Schiemann at the handing over of the directorship of the Max Planck Gesellschaft in Berlin, March 1959 (3); Lise Meitner talking to students at Bryn Mawr College, April or May 1959 (4); Lise Meitner being interviewed for television in New York, April or May 1959 (1); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn at a public event in Gottingen, with Fritz Strassmann, Max von Laue and Theodor Heuss, 1959 (7); Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in a lecture theatre, undated (3); Lise Meitner in Leipzieg, undated (1); Lise Meitner at Frankfurt airport, undated (1); and Lise Meitner sitting down, smoking and reading a letter, undated (1).
Dates
- Creation: 1958 - 1959
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
2005-04-12 15:08:53+00:00
Subject
- Hahn, Otto, 1879 - 1968 (chemist) (Person)
- Franck, James, 1882 - 1964 (physicist) (Person)
- Strassmann, Fritz, 1902 - 1980 (chemist) (Person)
- Laue, Max von, 1879 - 1960 (physicist) (Person)
- Heuss, Theodor, 1884 - 1963 (politician) (Person)
- Hertz, Gustav Ludwig, 1887 - 1975 (physicist) (Person)
- Schiemann, Elisabeth, 1881 - 1972 (botanist) (Person)
- Rabi, Isidor Isaac, 1898 - 1988 (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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