FRISCH_OTTO_ROBERT_SUPPLEMENTARY
Supplementary catalogue of the papers and correspondence of
OTTO ROBERT FRISCH FRS
(1904 - 1979)
Material additional to CSAC 85/5/82
Deposited in Trinity College Library, Cambridge
Compiled by Peter Harper and Timothy E. Powell
1991
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LIST OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
SECTION
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL
A. 226-A. 251
SECTION
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
B.208-B.224
SECTION
LECTURES AND PUBLICATIONS
C.140-C.167
SECTION
RADIO, TELEVISION, FILMS
SECTION
SECTION
SECTION
NON-PRINT MATERIAL
GG. 32-G.235
Pease 1 5)/,
CORRESPONDENCE
VISITS AND CONFERENCES
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
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INTRODUCTION
The material in this collection was received from Mrs Ulla
Frisch via Trinity College Cambridge.
It
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.
The items are therefore
sectionalised and numbered to follow the related material in that
previous catalogue with specific cross-references where appropriate.
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.
and Niels Bohr at Princeton, two drafts of Bohr's paper on the
slides in Section G.
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
B.209-B.220 are crucial documents relating to nuclear fission in
the first, Nall Gf 1939:
correspondence between Frisch in Copenhagen
between Frisch and Nature.
This supplementary collection also makes
Copenhagen in 1963 E.64-E.76.
A little general scientific correspondence
disintegration of heavy nuclei (Nature, Lond., 143)
and correspondence
available a few more drafts for Frisch's lectures and publications
and his aunt Lise Meitner in Sweden, correspondence between Frisch
is presented in Section F and non-print material including photographic
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SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL
A.226 =.A.251
A.226-A. 229
Obituaries.
4 folders.
Articles about Frisch.
Memorial Service, Trinity College Cambridge,
3 November 1979.
Order of service;
'Remarks' by Sir Brian Pippard.
letter of appreciation;
Letters of condolence.
A.233-A. 249
Caricatures
Frisch's caricature drawings of scientific
colleagues and others at committee meetings,
conferences and social occasions.
Mark Oliphant?', ‘Author of the Black
‘Gamov?
Cloud:
[ FeiHoyle.|u.
Sketch pad inscribed on front cover ‘Los
Alamos 1943-1945'.
Includes some later
caricatures dated 1950.
Frisch are 'Prof. George Placzek', ‘Oppenheim?',
Those identified by
Sketch pad inscribed on front cover ‘Los Alamos
1943-1945".
are 'Lew Kowarski', 'Rudi Peierls?', 'Hans Staub',
"Self portrait?’ ,'Fermi”::
drawings.
Sketch pad, nd.
identified by Frisch, as 'Pauli'.
A. 236,A.237
Menu cards, programmes used by Frisch for caricature
Caricatures identified by Frisch
Only one of the caricatures is
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Biographical and personal
1.950,
19595
1965, 1966, 1969, 1975.
Frisch by Dame Ngaio Marsh (Trinity College
Cambridge Ladies' Night 1966).
Includes sketch of
A.238-A. 242
Miscellaneous caricatures identified by Frisch.
Ar 2so
‘Lord Adrian', 'Barenboim', ‘Horace Barlow',
"Beethoven', 'Hans Bethe', Bessikovitch',
'Sir Hermann Bondi',
‘Aage Bohr',
'Bragg'.
"Gallacher', ‘von Hevesy', 'Janossy Budapest
1971',
‘Sir Harold Jeffries', ‘Frau Prof. Bertha
Karlik?',
“HH Koptermann 1955);
"Leonard Miall',
‘Prof. P
B and Lorna Moon Sep.1974'.
‘Prof. Joseph Mitchell',
“Raazinovitch?, — Pro£.