Catalogue description Supplementary catalogue of the papers and correspondence of OTTO ROBERT FRISCH FRS (1904 - 1979)

Material additional to CSAC 85.5.82.

SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL A. 226-A. 251

SECTION B SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH B.208-B.224

SECTION C LECTURES AND PUBLICATIONS C.140-C.167

SECTION D RADIO, TELEVISION, FILMS D. 60-D. 62

SECTION E VISITS AND CONFERENCES E. 64-E. 82

SECTION F CORRESPONDENCE F.148-F.157

SECTION G NON-PRINT MATERIAL G. 32-G. 35

This additional material usefully supplements the earlier collection. A.233-A.249 are Frisch's famous caricature drawings of scientific colleagues including those in sketch pads from Los Alamos where he was working on the atomic bomb project 1943-45. B.209-B.220 are crucial documents relating to nuclear fission in the first half of 1939: correspondence between Frisch in Copenhagen and his aunt Lise Meitner in Sweden, correspondence between Frisch and Niels Bohr at Princeton, two drafts of Bohr's paper on the disintegration of heavy nuclei (Nature, Lond., 143) and correspondence between Frisch and Nature. This supplementary collection also makes available a few more drafts for Frisch's lectures and publications C.140-C.147 and broadcasts D.60-D.62, and an important sequence of material relating to the commemoration meeting for Bohr held at Copenhagen in 1963 E.64-E.76. A little general scientific correspondence is presented in Section F and non-print material including photographic slides in Section G.

Compiled by Peter Harper and Timothy E. Powell

The work of the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, and the production of this catalogue, are made possible by the support of the following societies and organisations:

E P Abraham Cephalosporin Fund

The Biochemical Society

The British Library

British Telecom plc

The Geological Society

The Institute of Physics

The Royal Society

The Royal Society of Chemistry

The Society of Chemical Industry

The Wellcome Trust

The Wolfson Foundation

The items are sectionalised and numbered to follow the related material in the previous catalogue with specific cross-references where appropriate.

The material in this collection is supplementary to the principal collection of Frisch's papers and correspondence catalogued by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre (CSAC 87/8/82) now in Trinity College Library.

Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-1979, scientist and nuclear physicist

Received from Mrs Ulla Frisch via Trinity College Cambridge.

• Nuclear physics
• Scientists