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Photographs of Lise Meitner and others, 1962 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/4/19

Scope and Contents

Comprising 51 black-and-white photographs and 3 colour photographs.
Including photographs of a Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Cambridge, including Isidor Rabi and Rudolf Peierls, 1962 (23); Lise Meitner at Vienna-Schwechat airport, with Sigvard Eklund, perhaps on the occasion of her speech, "Memories of Fifty Years in Physics", at the Urania Volksbildungsanstalt in Vienna, October 1963 (4); Lise Meitner at a formal occasion, possibly a lecture and a lunch, with Werner Heisenberg and Hilde Levi, 1963 (2); participants at a conference, including Max Delbrück and Isidor Rabi, 1963 (8); Lise Meitner sitting in an armchair, 1963 (1); Lise Meitner at lunch on the terrace of a house with a young friend, October 1964 (2); Lise Meitner with friends, possibly the Gruneisen family, in Marburg, 1964 (5); Lise Meitner, 1964 (1); Lise Meitner with friends in a garden, standing in front of a cherry and a magnolia tree, undated (3); and Lise Meitner sitting in a chair and looking at photographic slides, undated (5).

Dates

  • Creation: 1962 - 1964

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

Finding aid date

2005-04-18 16:32:07+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

Contact:
Churchill Archives Centre
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