MENDELSSOHN_KURT_ALFRED_GEORG_v1
Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of
Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn FRS
(1906 - 1980)
CSAC catalogue 93/4/83
by Jeannine Alton and Julia Latham-Jackson
CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVES CENTRE
Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of
KURT ALFRED GEORG MENDELSSOHN, FRS
(1906-1980)
Compiled by Jeannine Alton and Julia Latham-Jackson
Deposited in the Bodleian Library
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Processing
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LIST OF CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL, A.1 - A.13
SECTION B
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, B.1 - B.137
B.1
-B.18
Low temperature research 1928-39
B.19 -B.43
Second World War
B.44 -B.114
Post-war research and teaching
in Oxford
B.115-B.137
Scientific and educational advisory
work for other universities and
institutions
SECTION D
D.1
-D.63
Books
Gul i. —©..38
G 734-46 753
SECTION C
LECTURES AND BROADCASTS, C.1 - C.53
PUBLICATIONS, EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES, D.1 - D.134
Lectures and broadcasts on low
temperatures
Lectures and broadcasts on other
subjects
publishers and editors
D.108 - D.134
Shorter correspondence with
D.64 -D.107 Editorial activities
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SECTION E
CONFERENCES AND VISITS, E.1 - E.152
E.1
-£.86
International Cryogenic Engineering
Conferences, 1968-78
E.87
-£.101
Institut de la Vie Conferences,
1966-77
E.102-£.152
Other visits and conferences, 1960-76
SECTION F
CHINA, F.1 - F.42
Pitre
Visit to China, October 1971
Fest
-.F.33
Talks, lectures, broadcasts,
publ ications
F.34 - F.42
Correspondence
SECTION G
PYRAMIDS, G.1 - G.77
G.1
-G.62
With an introductory note
SECTION H
SECTION J
G.63- G.77
Correspondence
PHOTOGRAPHS, J.1 - J.15
Drafts, lectures, publications
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, H.1 - H.54
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn was born in Berlin in 1906.
He attended
the Goethe-Schule and Berlin University where he stayed on to do postgraduate
research on low temperatures under his cousin, F.E. (later Sir Francis) Simon,
receiving a D.Phil. in 1930.
He remained at Berlin as a research assistant for a
further year but in 1931 he followed Simon to Breslau where he had been appointed
to the chair of Physical Chemistry at the Technische Hochschule.
While still at Berlin Mendelssohn had met F.A. Lindemann (later Lord
Cherwell) who suggested that he should come to Oxford to carry out low temperature
research at the Clarendon Laboratory, the intention being that he would begin work
there in October 1933.
In the meantime it was arranged that Mendelssohn should
pay a brief visit to the Clarendon to instal a helium liquifier which he did in January
1933, thus becoming the first person to liquify helium in Britain.
When Hitler came
to power he decided to make an early return to Oxford and started work at the
Clarendon in May 1933.
In the autumn of the same year Simon also came to Oxford, as did N. Kurti
centres all over the world.
a succession of gifted research students, many of whom built up graduate schools of
their own after leaving the Clarendon, thus making their mark in low temperature
and H. London, all of whom contributed with Mendelssohn to the establishment of
the Clarendon as an important centre of low temperature research.
However, with
B.43).
After the war he resumed his work on low temperatures in collaboration with
and Mendelssohn turned to various collaborative projects in medical physics (see B.19 -
the advent of the Second World War the low temperature apparatus had to be dismantled
He
involved with other low temperature scientists at the international level.
He was
Chairman and founder member of the International Cryogenic Engineering Committee
(E.1 - E.86), President of Commission A2 of the International Institute of Refrigera-
tion (H.20, H.21) and founder and general editor of the journal Cryogenics.
In addition to his research work in the laboratory Mendelssohn was closely
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published two books on low temperature physics and was very active as editor and
contributor to other monographs and journals (see Section D).
Through his contacts
with foreign research students he also actively encouraged attempts to establish new
centres for low temperature research, particularly in developing countries.
Much
of this is documented in Section B, including his efforts to establish formal links
between Wolfson College, Oxford, and academic institutions in Ghana, India and
Portugal .
In 1960 Mendelssohn paid his first visit to China and this laid the foundations
of an abiding interest in the country and its scientific and cultural development
which is documented in Section F. | Section G deals with Mendelssohn's other main
'extra-mural' interest - the sociological and engineering background of the Egyptian
and Mexican pyramids, on which he also published a book and several articles in both
popular and learned journals.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are grateful to Mrs. Mendelssohn for making the papers available and to
Professor D. Shoenberg FRS and Professor N. Kurti FRS for help and advice.
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SECTION A
BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL, A.1 - A.13
A.1
Obituaries and tributes
Press-cutting of obituary of Mendelssohn published in
The Times, 19 September 1980.
Photocopy of 'Appreciation' by D.F. Brewer from Physics
Bulletin, 32, 1981.
Copy of Lycidas (magazine of Wolfson College, Oxford)
containing an obituary by F. Jessup.
A photocopy of Mendelssohn's biographical entry in Who's Who
is also included here.
Newsletter and list of former pupils of the Goethe-Schule in
Berlin sent to Mendelssohn in 1960, with a brief letter from
Mendelssohn in reply.
See also B.1-B.7.
Correspondence with I.C.1. and the Home Office, 1933-39,
re Mendelssohn's residence permits and Certificate of
Naturalisation (1939).
For correspondence re research grants from
1.C.1. see B.14, B.15.
Letters from Mendelssohn to the Dean of the Faculty of
Philosophy, Friedrich Wilhelms - Universitdt Berlin, 1931-32,
re his 'Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der DoktorwUrde'
on 'Kalorimetrische Untersuchungen im Temperaturgebiet
des flUssigen Heliums' a printed copy of which, dated 15 February
1932, is enclosed.
see B.19-B.43.
Correspondence with Oxford University Registry and with Wadham
College, 1938-45 re grant arrangements during this period, and
conferment of M.A. by decree, 1944.
Correspondence re applications for posts at other universities,
1934-58, including references and recommendations by
F.A. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell) and F.E. Simon.
For Mendelssohn's research work during the Second World War
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Biographical and personal
Appointment as University Demonstrator, 1947.
appointment and miscellaneous related correspondence,
including list of university lectures given by Mendelssohn,
1947-51.
Letter of
Election to Fellowship of the Royal Society, 1951.
of congratulations (mostly copies, sent to Mendelssohn in
America).
Letters
Letter of appointment as Reader in Physics, May 1955.
Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, 1966.
Correspondence, 1966-76, including business of the External
Relations Committee of which Mendelssohn was an active
member, and arrangements for him to have a room in Wolfson
after his retirement from the Clarendon Laboratory in 1973.
Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, 1973.
Letter announcing election, February 1973, and brief related
correspondence.
Certificates, correspondence, etc. re membership of various
societies, 1937-53.
Mendelssohn's own list of his publications, 1930-73.
List of research students supervised by Mendelssohn at the
Clarendon Laboratory, 1934-73, with the dates and titles
of their theses.
Miscellaneous press-cuttings, various dates.
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SECTION B
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, B.1 - B.137
LOW TEMPERATURE RESEARCH,
1928-39
B.19 -B.43
SECOND WORLD WAR
B.44 -B.114
POST-WAR RESEARCH AND TEACHING
IN OXFORD
B.115-B.137.
SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY
WORK FOR OTHER UNIVERSITIES AND
INSTITUTIONS
For photographs of colleagues and apparatus at the Clarendon
Laboratory and elsewhere, see Section J.
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B.1-B.18
LOW TEMPERATURE RESEARCH, 1928-39
This sub-section contains notebooks relating to Mendelssohn's doctoral
research in Berlin and extensive correspondence arranging his first visit to England
in January 1933 to instal a helium liquifier in the Clarendon Laboratory.
There
is also correspondence with the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft and
Imperial Chemical Industries Limited re research grants awarded to Mendelssohn
during this period.
For correspondence on research during this period see Section H at the
relevant dates.
B.1
Black hard-cover notebook labelled 'Apparat B. Vorversuche
und Messung bei He Temp.'
Contains references to literature, notes, and records of
experiments, August-September 1928.
Black hard-cover notebook labelled 'Apparat B.
Spez. Wdrme-Messungen._
II'
He-Temp.
Red and black hard-cover notebook labelled 'Apparat B.
He Temp. Spez. Wdrme-Messungen.
I’
Contains records of experiments, 13 September-21 November
1929.
Contains records of experiments, 30 January-13 September 1929,
with some loose notes and printed matter tucked into the back
of the book.
See also A.2.
Contains graphs and tables of experimental results, drawings
of apparatus, etc. in no apparent order.
Few dates, mainly
1928-29 but some earlier.
Blue foolscap folder labelled 'Kdlteverfahren 1.
with later annotation 'K.M. Thesis’.
Apparat B',
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Correspondence with the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen
Wissenschaft re research grant applications, 1930-33.
Initial correspondence is re a grant to G. von Elbe
for work on low temperatures for one year from 1 April 1930.
In August 1930 von Elbe accepted the offer of a job in America
and F. Simon wrote to ask for his grant to be transferred to
Mendelssohn.
application in October resulted in the award of a grant to
Mendelssohn for one year from 1 November 1930 for work on
'Kalorimetrischen Untersuchungen an kondensierten Gasen
bei extrem tiefen Temperaturen im Zusammenhang mit ihren
Aufbau aus Para- und OrthomolekUlen'.
This request was not successful, but a second
The grant was renewed for two further years but it was
superseded in May 1933 by a 3-year grant from |.C.1. after
Mendelssohn's move to the Clarendon Laboratory.
1930
193]
Includes report on the first year of Mendelssohn's research.
1932-33
Includes report on Mendelssohn's research from December
1931 and correspondence re his move to the Clarendon
Laboratory .
Correspondence with F.A. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell),
May 1931-March 1933.
Mendelssohn's first letter (22 May
1931) refers to an invitation from Lindemann to come and work
in the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, and subsequent corres-
pondence is mainly re Mendelssohn's application to the Rockefeller
Foundation for a grant.
A drawing of the liquifier is also included in the folder.
Correspondence exchanged between Lindemann and the Rockefeller
Foundation, September 1932-January 1933, re grant application
by Mendelssohn for work at the Clarendon Laboratory.
Correspondence with A. Hoenow, February-March 1932, arising
from a letter to Hoenow from T.C. Keeley asking if it would be
possible for him to make a small helium liquifier for the
Clarendon Laboratory.
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Correspondence with T.C. Keeley, October-December 1932,
re arrangements for Mendelssohn to visit the Clarendon Laboratory
to instal the helium liquifier in January 1933.
Correspondence with T.C. Keeley, January-April 1933, including
arrangements for Mendelssohn to return to Oxford.
Further copies of correspondence with Lindemann and Keeley,
June 1932-April 1933.
This sequence contains Mendelssohn's
originals and must have originally been kept in the Clarendon
Laboratory.
information which are not in B.11, B.12 above.
It also includes one or two letters or additional
B.14, B.15
Correspondence with Imperial Chemical Industries Limited re
research grants, 1933-39.
B.14
1933-36
Includes press-cuttings and correspondence re explosion
in the Clarendon Laboratory in which Mendelssohn injured
his right hand and arm.
1936-39
Report on 'Experiments carried out in the Clarendon Laboratory
between May Ist 1933 and 30th April, 1934.
Helium Room No.1'.
J.D. Babbitt, J.R. Moore and T.C. Keeley.
7 pp. typescript describing experiments by
Dr. Kurt Mendelssohn.
Mainly re arrangements for Mendelssohn to receive a
personal grant from Sir Robert Mond in addition to a reduced
grant from I.C.1., and termination of all 1.C.1. support
for Mendelssohn in 1939.
Report on ‘Experiments carried out in the Clarendon Laboratory,
Oxford, up to December 31st 1934.
Helium Room No.1'
by Babbitt, Keeley, Moore and A.R. Meetham.
6 March-15 July 1936.
Blue soft-cover notebook containing records of experiments,
Dr. Kurt Mendelssohn.
7 pp. typescript describing experiments
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SECOND WORLD WAR
The beginning of the Second World War coincided with the removal of the
Clarendon Laboratory to a new building.
One of the results of this was the suspension
of all low temperature research until workshop staff could be spared from urgent war
work to reconstruct complex apparatus which had been dismantled for the move.
As an ex-enemy alien, Mendelssohn was not readily eligible to take part
in the Admiralty work which engaged much of the laboratory during the war.
He
therefore began a collaboration with Professor R.R. Macintosh of the Department
of Anaesthetics which resulted in the production of an ether vaporiser which later
became known as the 'Oxford Vaporiser'.
This invention was reported in The Lancet,
July 1941, patented, and eventually put into production through the cooperation of
Lord Nuffield who undertook to manufacture 1,000 of them and present them to the
Forces free of charge.
Shortly after the appearance of the Lancet paper, relations between Macintosh
attributing the sole credit for the vaporiser to*two German Jewish scientists’ -
Mendelssohn and H. Epstein, who had worked together on the construction of the
prototype.
Collaboration between Macintosh and Mendelssohn ceased in January
1942, and the ensuing correspondence documents the controversy which followed.
Towards the end of 1942 a further disagreement developed over an automatic
blood pressure recorder developed by Mendelssohn and D.S. Evans as a result of work
begun in the Department of Anaesthetics, and this occasioned further extensive corres-
and Mendelssohn began to deteriorate, apparently due to a report in the Sunday Chronicle
July 1940, re arrangements for patenting the ether vaporiser .
Correspondence with the Oxford University Registry, May 1940,
re application for renewal of a grant from the Higher Studies
Fund for Mendelssohn's work with R.R. Macintosh on the ether
vaporiser and blood pressure indicator.
Includes a brief letter
from Sir Farquhar Buzzard, 1 March 1940.
pondence, for which see B.35-B.42.
B.19
Correspondence with Andrew Walsh & Son (solicitors), June-
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Typescript drafts for article on the ether vaporiser, published
in The Lancet, July 1941, with brief letter from Macintosh,
17 October 1940.
Miscellaneous drawings and diagrams, mainly related to work
on the Oxford Vaporiser, n.d.
Also included here are press-cuttings about the use of the
Oxford Vaporiser in the Falkland Islands in 1982.
Correspondence with Macintosh and others, October 1940-
April 1941, mainly re work on blood pressure indicator.
"Report of work done in connection with the Nuffield Depart-
ment of Anaesthetics for the year 1940/41'
3 pp. typescript, 10 July 1941.
Request from the Editor of Monthly Science News for a brief
article on the Oxford Vaporiser, 27 July 1941, with typescript
of article submitted and brief further correspondence.
Miscellaneous press-cuttings re the Oxford Vaporiser and
correspondence with Macintosh and others, July-October 1941.
In Mendelssohn's original folder.
Correspondence with Macintosh and others, January 1942, re
termination of collaborative work on development of an automatic
blood pressure recorder, and re assignment of patent for the Oxford
Vaporiser .
Correspondence re Association of Scientific Workers Conference
on 'Science and the War Effort', London, 10-11 January 1942.
Mendelssohn delivered a short paper in the session on ‘Application
of Scientific Knowledge to Problems of Industrial Production and
to Services Problems' in which he described the development of
the Oxford Vaporiser, and the text of this (5 pp. typescript) is
also included in the folder.
Faculty.
Text of part of a lecture on 'Physics in War Time Medicine’,
delivered at a meeting of the Oxford Branch of the Association
of Scientific Workers, 29 January 1942, press-cutting, and copy
of letter to Cherwell describing events at the meeting.
Correspondence with Macintosh and others, February 1942.
copies of letters from Cherwell applying for grants from the Higher
Studies Fund and the Leigh Fund to enable Mendelssohn to continue
research in collaboration with other members of the Medical
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Correspondence with Andrew Walsh and Son (solicitors)
and Lord Cherwell, March 1942, re arrangements for the
assignment of the patent for the Oxford Vaporiser.
ms. and typescript drafts of statement by Mendelssohn re events
concerning the vaporiser, 1940-42.
Includes
Further correspondence re the Oxford Vaporiser patent, April
1942, including letter from Mendelssohn offering to hand over
his share of the patent rights to Lord Nuffield.
Correspondence, May-June 1942.
Includes 4 pp. typescript
memorandum by the Registrar, Oxford University, describing
the development of the controversy between Macintosh and
Mendelssohn over the Oxford Vaporiser.
Correspondence with F. Sherwood Taylor, May-November 1942,
re arrangements to deposit in the Museum of the History of
Science, Oxford, the first model of the Oxford Vaporiser which
was built in the Clarendon Laboratory in Spring 1940.
There follows a long exchange of letters
In addition to controversy over the blood pressure
The material has been assigned to several smaller folders
B.35-B.42
Correspondence arising from the publication of a paper by
Mendelssohn and D.S. Evans on 'The Physics of Blood-Pressure
Measurement' (Proc. Phys. Soc., 54, 1942) which described
their work on the automatic blood pressure recorder to December
1941 (see also B.23).
The correspondence opens with copy of a letter from Macintosh
and S.L. Cowan to the Papers' Secretary of the Physical Society
(J.H. Awbery), 16 November 1942, disclaiming any responsibility
for work on the blood pressure recorder and proffering detailed
criticisms of the paper.
with Awbery, the Registrar, Oxford University and others, culmina-
ting in the publication of a discussion on the paper in Proc. Phys.
Soc., 55, 1943.
recorder further references are made to Mendelssohn's part in the
development of the Oxford Vaporiser .
May-June 1943
January-February 1943
March-April 1943
for ease of reference.
November-December 1942
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July-October 1943
1944
Ms. and typescript drafts, mainly for published discussion;
proofs with extensive annotations.
Ms. notes and diagrams, miscellaneous printed matter.
Mendelssohn's original folder.
In
Correspondence with Herbert and Gowers and Company
(solicitors) re assignment of U.S. and Canadian patents for
Oxford Vaporiser, 1945.
Includes photographs.
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B.44-B.114
POST-WAR RESEARCH AND TEACHING IN OXFORD
The following sequence consists of correspondence with research students
and visitors to the Clarendon Laboratory, most of whom worked on low temperatures under
Mendelssohn's supervision, sometimes in collaboration with staff of the Atomic Energy
Research Establishment at Harwell (see also B.115 - B.118).
The correspondence,
which is presented in alphabetical order, usually includes arrangements to come to
Oxford, reports on progress of research work, and references and testimonials for
subsequent applications for posts at other universities.
The material is often enriched
by further correspondence about research and publications and also by a considerable
corpus of letters from students who returned to developing countries, reporting on
problems encountered in their attempts to continue with their research
and build up
schools of their own.
See A.12 for a
list of 49 research students supervised by Mendelssohn,
1934-73, with the dates and titles of their theses.
197]
1962-63
1957-71
1963-73
Brewer, D.
:
Bhagat, S.
M.
Altov, V.
A.
Anderson, R.A.
1958-66
Chopras.V.° . K.
Chandrasekhar, B.
1959-65
1960-77
1969-70
1958-69
1970-74
Chaudhuri, K.
Connolly, A.
Burton, R.
Campos, A.
Blow, S.
:
1954, 1962-71
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Corsan, J.
M.
Critchlow, P.
‘
Davey, G.
Dziwornooh, P.
A.
Edwards, D.
O.
Fairbarns, J.
French, R.
A.
Furtado, C.
A.
i
i
Gascon, F.
Good, J.
A.
Griffin; CS.
1959-64
1957-67
1958-66
1963-77
1958-70
1963-71
1961-69
1967-76
1966-67
1966-70
1964-77
Hare, G.
;
1962-66
1969-76
1966
G.
M.
1966-67
1965-70
see
H.18
Harrison, S.
Lampel, G.
P.
Hasiguti, R.
R.
Kerr, R.
M.
Khalatnikov, |.
Karagyozyan, A.
1960
Meaden, G._
McCrum, NN.
G.
Melo, A.
A.
Mikura, Z.
1958-62
1962-75
Lowell, J.
1960-65
1965-76
1960-70
1966-71
Martin, D.
;
T.
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Mortimer, M.
J.
Mufiéz Dominguez, J.
S.
Ohno, K.
Papp, E.
Probert, D.
Radhakrishnan, T.
:
Rajagopal, E._
S.
1965-72
1963-70
1961-70
1971
1962-63
1970-74
1961-76
Includes brief correspondence re gift of helium
liquifier by the Clarendon Laboratory to the
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Ramanathan, K.
G.
see H.36.
Ragjak.
°¥..
1963-73
Ratnalingam, R.
1965-75
1969-70
1958-76
K.
N.
ROWS...
Me
1961-77
1962-70
1951, 1958-67
Rite; A.
oF.
Shebalin, I.
Y.
Raychauduri, A.
Rosenberg, H.
M.
Shatin Jie.
1970
Subramanyam, SS.
Steele, W.
A.
Shiffman, C.
A.
POUR J,
Ay
1970
1960
1961-73
1969-70
1960-62
1972-75
Shigi, T.
Seereey: Ss
1967-71
:
:
V.
Suga, H.
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Sujak, B.
Sutcliffe, P.
W.
Tirmizi, S.
M.A.
fone.
Az
Me
GC,
Pz
Walsh, G.
Walton, A.
White, G.
M,
J.
K.
Whittaker, K.
C.
1959
1962-68
1962-76
1969-76
1959-61
1971-72
1951, 1963-75
1965-72
Includes drafts for obituary of Whittaker by
Mendelssohn and material re proposed research
project on manganese at Kumasi University of
Science and Technology, Ghana.
Wigley, D.
A.
1960-71
A-H
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M-.Z
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1963-74
Yoshida, I.
B.111
B.112
B.113
ot11-B.113
Shorter requests to visit/work at the Clarendon Laboratory.
Not indexed.
Correspondence with Russian physicists, March- June
1958, arising from invitation by the Low Temperature
Group of the Physical Society to visit laboratories in
Oxford, Cambridge and London (only 3 came).
Shorter requests for references, etc. 1953-77.
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B.115-B.137
SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY WORK FOR OTHER
UNIVERSITIES AND INSTITUTIONS
Mendelssohn's collaborative work with A.E.R.E. Harwell has already been
mentioned, but he also established links with several foreign universities and
institutions, some of which were formally acknowledged by Wolfson College, Oxford.
His main contacts were with the universities of Coimbra and Porto in Portugal, the
University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and the Tata Institute, Bombay,
but he also acted as External Examiner to other universities including the University
of Science of Malaysia and the University of London.
The material is presented in
alphabetical order of the university or institution concerned.
B.115-B.118
Atomic Energy Research Establishment (A.E.R.E.) Harwell
Mendelssohn acted as Consultant to A.E.R.E. Harwell
from August 1962.
For scientific correspondence with colleagues at Harwell
see H.26, H.30 (Mortimer), H.47 (Spence).
Correspondence re appointment, renewal, conditions, fees, etc.
Includes initial letter of appointment, 8 August 1962.
Renewal letters extend to 1976.
Progress reports and drafts for papers by Mendelssohn and
other members of his laboratory, 1961-69, relating to collaborative
research project with Harwell on 'Low Temperature Properties
of Transuranic Elements’ .
with Harwell.
Correspondence with colleagues at Harwell and Oxford and with
the Science Research Council, 1966-68, re application for a
grant for continuing research on transuranic elements.
Ms. notes and drafts, graphs, diagrams, etc. relating to work
K.A.G. Mendelssohn
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University of Coimbra, Portugal
Correspondence with members of the University and with the
British Council, 1971-73, re plans for the establishment of a
link with Wolfson College, Oxford.
See also B.133.
B.120-B.13]
University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
The following papers document Mendelssohn's association
with Kumasi, 1968-74, through his initiation of the link with
Wolfson College, Oxford, his examining activities and his
encouragement of research on manganese in the Physics Depart-
ment of the University.
See also B.58, B.107, E.123-E.127.
Ms. and typescript notes and data on manganese, some by
G.T. Meaden, with brief correspondence on obtaining samples
of manganese for research, December 1965.
Correspondence, 1968-69, re arrangements for the establishment
of a link between Wolfson College, Oxford, and Kumasi.
Correspondence, January-May 1971.
on the Manganese Project to March 1971.
Includes Progress Report
Correspondence, June-December 1971.
Correspondence, January-August 1970.
cussion of the proposed link with Wolfson and arrangements
for Mendelssohn to act as External Examiner in Physics.
Includes further dis-
Correspondence, September-December 1970. Many of the letters
contain references to the sudden death of K.C. Whittaker, Head
of the Physics Department and leader of the proposed research
project on manganese.
Correspondence, January-May 1973.
Correspondence re supply of equipment for the managanese project,
November 1971-February 1973.
Correspondence, January-November 1972.
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Correspondence, June 1973-March 1974
Miscellaneous notes, drafts,
manganese project.
lists of equipment, etc.
for
Mark sheets and reports relating to Mendelssohn's visits to
Kumasi as External Examiner, 1969 and 1971.
University of London
Invitations to join Panel of Visiting Examiners, 1973-76.
University of Porto, Portugal
Correspondence with members of the University, 1971, 1974-75,
re possible arrangements for a link with Wolfson College, Oxford.
See also B.119.
Correspondence re Mendelssohn's work as External Examiner,
1972-77.
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay
B.134, B.135
University of Science of Malaysia (formerly University Pulau
Penang)
Invitations to act as assessor for appointments, etc. and copies
of Mendelssohn's assessments, 1971-73.
Mendelssohn acted as External Examiner, 1972-77, and as
assessor for appointments and promotions, 1971-73.
the University in 1972.
He visited
Shorter correspondence re examining of doctoral theses, 1973-76.
Correspondence with M.G.K. Menon and others, April-December
1970, re arrangements for the establishment of a link between
Wolfson College, Oxford, and the Tata Institute.
Mendelssohn stayed at the Tata Institute as Royal Society
Leverhulme Visiting Professor, November 1969-February 1970.
See E.136-E.139 for material relating to this visit.
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SECTION C
LECTURES AND BROADCASTS, C.1 - C.53
LECTURES AND BROADCASTS ON LOW
TEMPERATURES, c. 1935-65
LECTURES AND BROADCASTS ON OTHER
SUBJECTS, ¢.1957-77
See also F.1 - F.33 passim (China), G.1 - G.62 passim (pyramids).
K.A.G. Mendelssohn
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Lectures and broadcasts
LECTURES AND BROADCASTS ON LOW TEMPERATURES
c.1935-65
‘Bristol Lect. Notes on S.C. (1935?) +Cp of Su-Bi'’.
of a folder so described: 7 pp. ms. notes for lecture with
2 pp. data and a graph labelled 'Specific Heat Su-Bi’.
Contents
'K.M.
(35 min.)'
3pp. typescript, n.d.
Short summary of talk on helium for July conference
This typescript, along with 3 pp. ms. notes on'Superfluidity’
(not by Mendelssohn) and correspondence 1946 with J.F. Allen,
was sent to Mendelssohn many years later by N. Kurti with a
note 'I've found these in an old discarded and seemingly empty
| wonder whether these have been there ever
file folder ...
since 1946’.
The correspondence has been transferred to H.1.
Not indexed.
3 pp. ms. notes for lecture,
'Moscow 3 July 1957'.
delivered during the Moscow Low Temperature Conference.
2 pp. ms. notes for lecture, probably
Copy of communication from Mendelssohn to A.V. Topchiev
accepting invitation to the Moscow conference is also included
here.
Correspondence with members of the public following a talk
by Mendelssohn on superfluidity and superconductivity broadcast
on BBC radio, October 1954.
2 pp. ms.
'L.T.G. [Low Temperature Group?1 A.G.M. 9.1.58'.
3 pp. typescript.
'Madison, LillegibleJ Aug. 57'.
at Low Temperature Conference.
‘Southampton 6.11.57.
Aggregation of Matter’.
3 pp. ms.
'Missenden Abbey, Feb.11.58.
low temp.'
Properties of matter at very
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Lectures and broadcasts
Correspondence with Associated-Rediffusion Limited, April-
July 1958, re arrangements to film an experiment in the
Clarendon Laboratory to demonstrate the superfluidity of
helium at very low temperatures.
Correspondence 1967-68 re arrangements to film for an Italian
television programme on the search for absolute zero is also
included here.
'Low Temperature Seminar on Onset of Turbulence.
Oxford'.
3 pp. typescript.
5.3.59 ,
‘Phonon and Electron Scattering in Metals at Low Temperatures.
A.E.1.
15.4.59.'
CAssociated Electrical Industries] Aldermaston;
2 pp. typescript.
‘Low temp. physics.
2 pp. typescript.
Marlborough College, November 1959’.
‘Superconductors of Small Dimensions - Schenectady 1961’.
2 pp. ms.
This item
is not included in the list of publications at A.12.
"Ricerche e Tecniche sulle Basse Temperature’.
delivered in Italy, c.1961, at the E.N.1I. (Ente Nazionale
Idrocarburi) Scuola di Studi Superiori sugli Idrocarburi.
Offprint (in Italian) only.
Lecture
‘Lecture on Low Temperature Physics'.
a series of slide lectures, n.d., with ms. notes for lectures
1 and 2.
‘Onset of friction in liquid He 11'.
and 2 ms. versions for 'Los Alamos 1961' and 'St. Andrews
Easter 1965'.
3 pp. typescript, n.d.
Small blue notebook labelled 'S.C. lecture' containing notes
for an unidentified lecture on superconductivity.
'The basis of high field superconductivity'.
typescript notes, n.d.
‘Conductivity at low temperatures'.
3 pp. ms., n.d.
'Two lectures on the Applications of Superconductivity' .
4 pp. typescript, n.d.,
Typescript notes for
4 pp. ms. and
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C.20
2
C.22-C.31
Lectures and broadcasts
5 pp. typescript for lecture on aggregation, n.d.
2 pp. ms. notes for unidentified lecture, written on paper
of Hotel Merlin, Kuala Lumpur.
Ms. and typescript notes originally contained in a bulky
folder labelled 'SCuper] Clonductivity] lectures'.
The notes
have been split into several smaller units for ease of reference
and the original delapidated folder has been discarded.
With the exception of C.27 none of the material is dated.
6 pp. typescript notes for 3 lectures on superconductivity.
16 pp. typed transcript with some ms. corrections of lecture
on superconductivity headed 'Dr. Mendelssohn.
Lecture 2'.
Pages 2 and 3 are missing (but see C.24).
'Superconductivity 2'.
probably intended for publication.
on verso of pages 2 and 3 of C.23.
7 pp. typescript version of lecture,
Pages 6 and 7 are typed
13 pp. typed transcript headed 'Dr. Mendelssohn No.3', with
ms. corrections on p.1 only.
Lacks p.6.
'Superconductivity 3'.
9 pp. typescript version of lecture.
Ms. notes for various unidentified lectures.
‘Physical Basis of High Field Superconductivity'.
script with ms. additions, n.d.
3 pp. type-
‘Low Temperature Properties of the Actinide Metals'.
typescript with annotation '? Dr. Rosenberg’.
3 pp.
'Superconductivity, Northampton Polytechnic Oct. 65'.
2 pp. ms.
4 pp. ms. notes for unidentified lecture, written on paper of
Kyoto Hotel, Japan.
various dates.
More fragmentary material, mainly ms. notes and data.
Includes some notices of lectures given by Mendelssohn at
Bundles of notes for various unidentified lectures.
these are paginated but none have titles or dates.
Many of
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LECTURES AND BROADCASTS ON OTHER SUBJECTS,
¢.1957-77
Ms. and typescript notes for lectures on Russian science, given
after Mendelssohn's visit to Moscow in 1957 (see C.4).
typescripts are not identified but one of the ms. pages is
annotated 'Civil Servants at Brighton Sept. 1958'.
The
"Science in East and West.
1956".
4am, Ins
Lecture.
Univ. of Leeds November
"The Place of Science in Society Today.
25.3.59'.
Teachers Vacation Course.
Lecture to Middlesex
2 pp. typescript.
"Problems of Modern Science.
2 pp. typescript.
Balls Park College May 1962'.
Correspondence arising from a broadcast talk by Mendelssohn
published in The Listener, 10 January 1963, on 'Japanese Science
Today’.
Includes requests for permission to reprint and comments
from colleagues and the general public.
Correspondence arising from a broadcast talk by Mendelssohn
on 'Science in India’ which was subsequently published in The
Listener, 24 September 1964.
Includes requests to reprint the
talk in The Times of India, Yojana and the Radio Times of India,
and reactions from Indian colleagues and others.
20 October 1967.
For Mendelssohn's visit to Africa in December 1964 see E.123-
E27.
12 pp. typescript draft and heavily edited final version of
broadcast talk on Russian scientific research for series entitled
‘After Fifty Years: Some Russian Scientific Achievements’,
For Mendelssohn's visit to India in 1963 see E.113-E.120.
Typescript draft and broadcast script of talk entitled 'Scientist
in Africa’, subsequently published in The Listener, 14 April 1966.
Brief correspondence with the B.B.C. and others is also included.
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C.42-C.44
2 broadcasts on Australian radio recorded during a visit in
March 1970 (see E. 140).
C.42
C.43
C.44
7 pp. typescript draft for 'Why Build Pyramids?', broadcast
5 April 1970.
7 pp. typescript draft and final script of interview broadcast
under the title 'A Scientist in China’, 12 April 1970.
Correspondence with the Australian Broadcasting Commission
re arrangements for both broadcasts.
2 pp. ms. notes for lecture on scientific and technical
education in developing countries, 1972;
press-cutting announcing the lecture, to be held at the
Malayan Teachers' College, Giugor.
with photocopy of a
'Walther Nernst und seine Zeit - Aufsteig und Niedergang
der deutschen Wissenschaft'.
in Berlin, 4 October 1973.
Lecture delivered by Mendelssohn
For correspondence re Mendelssohn's book on Nernst see
D.26-D.48.
'The Rise and Fall of German Science'.
the University of Kent at Canterbury, 31 May 1974.
Lecture delivered at
Correspondence, poster announcing the lecture.
25 pp. typescript of lecture (in German) with a few ms.
corrections.
6 pp. ms. notes; correspondence re arrangements.
Lecture on German science before Hitler, delivered at Karlsruhe,
24 February 1975.
Brief correspondence re Mendelssohn's contribution.
‘Quantum Theory in the Twenties', University College London
(Chemical and Physical Society), 2 March 1975.
typescript with correspondence from the Secretary of the Society
(M. Mansuri).
Programme on superconductivity broadcast on BBC radio, October
1976.
Correspondence only.
5pp.
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Lectures and broadcasts
6 pp. typescript for lecture in German on 'Science and Western
Domination’.
2 copies, one annotated ‘Berlin 1977'.
lecture, broadcast (declined or with no
Invitations to talk,
reply), 1971-74.
Not indexed.
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PUBLICATIONS, EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES, D.1 - D.134
Di
ieee
BOOKS
D.64 -D.107
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
D.108-D.134
SHORTER CORRESPONDENCE WITH
PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS
See also F.1 - F.33 passim (China), G.1 - G.62 passim (pyramids).
There is a list of Mendelssohn's publications at A.12.
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BOOKS
See also F.17-F.24, G.28-G.42
'Cryophysics', Interscience Publishers Inc., 1960
Correspondence with the publishers and with the editor of
the series 'Interscience Tracts in Science and Astronomy’,
1954-61.
1954-58
Includes copy of initial contract for a book on low
temperature physics, June 1956.
1959
January-August 1960
Includes copy of letter from Mendelssohn re proposed
Polish translation of the book, and further contract,
1960.
1962-63
1964-68
te sales, French and Polish editions, etc.
October 1960-October 196]
re royalties, French translation, etc.
re royalties, Polish edition and preparation of a second
edition.
Correspondence with John Wiley & Sons Limited, 1962-68.
(They merged with Interscience at the end of 1961.)
Photocopies of reviews.
Correspondence with colleagues containing comments and
suggestions for incorporation in the second edition.
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Publications, editorial activities
'The Quest
for Absolute Zero', Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
1966
Correspondence with R. Carrington, 1962, re projected books
by Mendelssohn.
'c.c. Mr. Nicholas Thompson (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)’.
2 of Carrington's letters have a note
D.10-D.16
Correspondence with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (World
University Library), 1963-72.
D.10
1963-64
Includes copy of contract and letter from Mendelssohn
outlining projected scope of the book.
Includes brief correspondence re Italian translation
and drafts for various 'blurbs'.
Includes correspondence re Spanish translation,
publicity arrangements, etc,
re publicity, royalties, Japanese edition, etc.
re Polish and Japanese editions, royalties, etc.
1969-71
re Portuguese, Polish, Japanese and Russian editions,
royalties, etc.
German translation of the book, 1965.
Correspondence from colleagues in response to requests by
Mendelssohn for photographs or information required for the
book.
In alphabetical order.
Correspondence with W. Meissner and Kindler Verlag re the
re possible second edition of the book.
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Correspondence with J. de Nobel re Dutch translation.
Correspondence with the translator of the Russian edition
(partly re his proposed biography of James Clerk Maxwell).
Photocopies of reviews.
Letters of appreciation from recipients of complimentary copies.
In alphabetical order.
Correspondence from other readers.
Not indexed.
Correspondence with Wykeham Publications (London) Limited
re 2nd edition of 'The Quest for Absolute Zero', published
1977.
and Nicolson re reversion of rights.
Includes copy of contract and letters from Weidenfeld
Correspondence from colleagues re the second edition, some
in response to requests for photographs or information.
Includes 2 letters from Lucie London (the second edition was
dedicated to the memory of H. London).
D.26
D.27, O28
D.26-D.48
'The World of Walther Nernst', Macmillan, 1973
Correspondence with Nernst's daughter Angela (Hahn),
1967-74.
Correspondence with Nernst's daughter Edith (von Zanthier),
1968-75.
See also correspondence with David Higham Associates Limited
(D.63).
publish the book.
Correspondence with Gerald Duckworth & Company Limited,
1968-71.
Includes copy of contract, October 1969, and letter
from C. Haycraft, December 1970, conveying decision not to
Correspondence with R.W. Clark and others re projected book
on Nernst, 1970.
D.29
D.30
Dial
1968-72
D.28
1973-75
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D.31
D.32
Publications, editorial activities
Correspondence with the Clarendon Press, 1969-70.
Correspondence with Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969, 1971.
D.33-D.35
Correspondence with Macmillan, 1971-74.
See also D.37-D.41.
1971-72
Includes comments on the manuscript of the book by
R.W. Clark.
Includes copy of contract, correspondence re publicity
and letter from Edith von Zanthier with detailed
comments on some sections of the book.
1974
Correspondence with colleagues in response to requests by
Mendelssohn for photographs for the Nernst book, 1972.
1973
1974
1975-77
Correspondence with Macmillan re the Japanese edition,
1975-76.
Photocopies and press-cuttings of reviews.
Mainly correspondence with the German publisher
(Physik Verlag).
Correspondence with Macmillan and others re arrangements
for the German edition.
Includes letters from German colleagues offering help
with translation, negotiations with German publishers, etc.
Correspondence arising from reviews of the book, 1974-75.
Correspondence with Macmillan and University of Pittsburgh
Press re the American edition, 1973-74.
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Publications, editorial activities
D.44-D.47
Letters of appreciation from colleagues and members of the
public, some containing reminiscences, queries or additional
information.
In alphabetical order.
B-G
H-L
M-P
5.22
Copy of Nernst's monograph 'Die theoretischen und experi-
mentellen Grundlagen des neuen Warmesatzes' published by
Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp in 1924 (second edition).
This
copy, which is in very poor condition, originally belonged
to F.A. Lindemann (his name is inside the front cover) and
is the one referred to by Mendelssohn on pp.91-92 of The World
of Walther Nernst.
Correspondence with Longman, 1973.
D.49-D.53
D.49
D.50
D.51
Includes
‘Science and Western Domination', Thames and Hudson, 1976.
Ms. and typescript synopses, draft blurbs, notes, etc.
for book.
Correspondence with Thames and Hudson, 1974-76.
copy of contract and several exchanges re the title of the
book (Mendelssohn's original title was 'The Basis of White
Domination’).
a reader is also included here.
Brief correspondence with Praeger (publishers of American
edition), 1976.
Photocopies and press-cuttings of reviews.
One letter from
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Material for unfinished book 'The State of Matter called Life'
Preliminary ms. notes and drafts including synopsis, listing
These have been left in Mendelssohn's original
8 chapters.
folder labelled 'Book.
Also included here is a letter from Joan Mott, February 1976.
Several of the drafts below bear her annotations or corrections.
The State of Matter called Life’.
"Introduction'
3 typescript drafts, one marked 'Final version’, another
‘Joan Mott's marked copy’.
"Life and Non-Life'
In
2 typescript drafts, one marked 'Final version’.
Mendelssohn's original folder labelled 'Chapter 1’.
'The Bricks and the Mortar'
In
2 typescript drafts, one marked 'Final version’.
Mendelssohn's original folder labelled 'Chapter 2'.
'Aggregation'
'The Biological Machine’
3 typescript drafts for Chapter 3.
original folder.
In Mendelssohn's
2 typescript drafts and a few ms. and typescript notes
for Chapter 4.
Pyramids' and sale of foreign rights for 'In China Now’.
Correspondence with David Higham Associates Limited
(Author's Agents), 1971-72, re arrangements for publication
of 'The World of Walther Nernst! and 'The Riddle of the
Material assembled for illustrations.
original folder.
In Mendelssohn's
‘Evolution’
Typescript draft for Chapter 5.
Miscellaneous shorter drafts.
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D.64-D.107
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
D.64-D.68
Contemporary Physics
Mendelssohn was one of a small group of Advisory Editors
who corresponded with G. R. Noakes (the Editor of the journal)
re papers submitted, approaches to authors, publication policy,
etc.
Editorial Board and contributors to the journal is also included
in the sequence together with drafts of book reviews by
Mendelssohn for publication in Contemporary Physics.
Occasional correspondence with other members of the
D.64
D.65
D.66
D.67
D.68
1964, 1972-73
1974
1975
1976
1977
D.69-D.89
Cryogenics
The following
Correspondence with J.B. Gardner from whom Mendelssohn
sought advice on the proposed new journal, 1959.
Mendelssohn was General Editor of Cryogenics from its
founding in 1959, and continued to take an active part in the
running of the journal for the next 20 years.
papers document the initial stages of the journal up to the
publication of the first issue in 1960, and provide a record
of Mendelssohn's editorial activities for part of the ensuing
period.
correspondence to November 1960.
Correspondence with the publishers (Heywood and Company),
1959-60.
Mendelssohn's secretary during his absence abroad.
Some of the correspondence is conducted by
Correspondence with Plenum Press, May-June 1960, re
arrangements for distribution of the journal in U.S.A.
American Editor.
Includes Mendelssohn's letter of
invitation, Scott's acceptance, and administrative
D.71
D.72-D.74
Correspondence with foreign editors.
Dive
R.B. Scott
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L. Weil
European Editor. Includes Mendelssohn's letter of
invitation, Weil's acceptance, and administrative
correspondence to August 1960.
P.L. Kapitza
Kapitza was invited to be Russian Editor, but he was
unable to accept.
A.V. Topchiev.
Includes correspondence with
Miscellaneous publicity material, etc., including draft
circular letter to contributors.
Correspondence with advisory editors and others, March-
December 1960.
Correspondence with contributors, September 1959-October
1960.
soliciting contributions.
Includes copy of circular letter from the editors
Not indexed.
D.78, D.79
D.78
1960, 196/-72
Miscellaneous correspondence with the publishers of
Cryogenics, 1965-77.
1965 correspondence is with Heywood and Company
Limited re allowance for entertainment expenses.
In
1968 the journal was transferred to Iliffe Science and
Technology Publications (later |.P.C. Business Press)
with whom subsequent correspondence is conducted,
mainly re expense allowances and editorial fees.
January-April 1975
te fees and expenses and editorial policy.
correspondence with J.L. Olsen re proposed
International Journal of Refrigeration, 1977.
Correspondence with and re new advisory editors for Cryogenics,
April-December 1977.
Correspondence with authors contributing papers and with the
Assistant Editor, 1974-78.
Not indexed.
D.81-D.89
D.80
D.81
D.82
1974-77
1974
Includes
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May-September 1975
October-December 1975
June-December 1976
January-April 1977
May-August 1977
September-December 1977
January-February 1978
D.84
D.85
D.86
D.87
D.88
D.89
D.90-D.100
The International Cryogenic Monograph Series and Monographs
in Low Temperature Physics
Mendelssohn was general editor of both these series,
published by Plenum Press.
Includes copy of contract with J.G. Daunt as
Correspondence with the President of Plenum Press and others,
1961-62, re proposed series of monographs on low temperature
engineering (International Cryogenic Monograph Series) to be
edited by Mendelssohn and R.B. Scott.
contracts and arrangements for a meeting in New York to dis-
cuss the project.
Includes copies of
Scott was later succeeded by K.D. Timmerhaus.
Correspondence with authors and editors of both series, 1966-77.
Correspondence with Plenum Press and with prospective editors,
1967-68, re proposed series of monographs on low temperature
physics.
co-editor.
1973
D.94
July-December 1971
D.93
January-June 197]
D.92
1966-70
D.92-D.100
Ds95
1972
D.96
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D. 97,
D.98
Di
1974
January-June 1975
July-December 1975
D.100
1976-77
D.101-D.104
Interscience Tracts in Physics and Astronomy
Mendelssohn acted as 'adviser' to the publishers of
this series, finding manuscripts and suggesting possible topics
and authors.
For his own 'Interscience Tract' see D.1-D.8.
Correspondence, 1956-61 with publisher, publisher's agent
(P. Rosbaud) and authors.
1956
1957
1958
1959-61
Committee.
Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Mendelssohn served on the Editorial Board and Policy
Correspondence with the Editor (J.G. Daunt) and contributors,
1968-77.
editions.
Correspondence with Heywood (H.F. Onley), 1957, re
arrangements for launching of the series.
of the contract.
Further correspondence, 1958-62, including several exchanges
with Academic Press and others re
publicity for American
Mendelssohn was Editor of this series, published by
D.106, D.107
Progress
in Cryogenics
Heywood and Company Limited.
Includes a copy
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D.108-D.134
SHORTER CORRESPONDENCE WITH PUBLISHERS AND
EDITORS
In alphabetical order.
Academic Press
Acta Metallurgica
Advanced Cryogenics
1964, 1968
1963
1969-70
1968-69
Brief correspondence with Editor (C. Bailey)
and publishers, and typescript draft of chapter
by Mendelssohn on 'Superconductivity and
Superconducting Devices’.
Details of lecture course which formed the basis
for Advanced Cryogenics are also included here.
American Institute of Physics
1967-68
1962
1966-67
1971-73
1966-67
W.A. Benjamin and Company
1964
1966
Cooperative Phenomena
Wm. Collins
Sons and Company Limited
Bulletin Technique de L'Union des Ingénieurs
sortis des Ecoles Spéciales de L'Université
Catholique de Louvain
draft of Mendelssohn's foreword.
Correspondence with Editor and publisher
re Mendelssohn's contribution (on 'Super-
conductivity and Superfluidity') to this book
which was dedicated to H. Fréhlich.
Cryogenics and Refrigeration: a Bibliographical
Guide
Correspondence with Editor and publisher including
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Daily Express
195]
Includes drafts for unpublished article on
science and security.
J.M. Dent and Sons Limited
1966
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
1971, 1974
Dinaman Newsweekly
1967
Includes draft by Mendelssohn on Indian
science.
Discovery
1944-45, 1947
Correspondence with the Editor (W.E. Dick)
and with the general public re articles by
Mendelssohn in the 'Junior Science’ section.
1973
Includes drafts of article by Mendelssohn on
‘Past, Present and Future of Cryogenic Engineering’
and correspondence with the Central Office of
Information who commissioned the article.
Fulcrum
Heinemann Educational Books
Institute of Physics
1967
1964
1958-75
The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance
1974-76
Includes drafts of book reviews by Mendelssohn.
Mendelssohn on Indian Science.
Includes draft of unpublished review article by
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited
1968-69
Includes draft book review by Mendelssohn.
Macmillan and Company Limited
n.d.
International Affairs
1964
Minerva
1974-75
Laboratory Practice
1965, 1969
Includes draft book review by Mendelssohn.
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Publications, editorial activities
Nature
1938, 1965-77
Includes drafts of book reviews, etc. by
Mendelssohn.
New Scientist
1964-75
re articles and book reviews by Mendelssohn,
including some on China.
Oxford Mail
1962, 1963
Press-cuttings of 2 articles by Mendelssohn.
Oxford Research
Penguin Books Limited
re Penguin Science Survey.
1966
1963-64
D.121-D.124
Pergamon Press Limited
1958-77
D.121
Correspondence, 1963-73, re proposed book on Super-
conductivity to be edited with an introduction by
Mendelssohn.
pondence with the Editor of the series in which the book
was to have appeared (D. ter Haar).
Includes copy of contract and corres-
Correspondence with N. Kurti and Pergamon, 1976-77, re
arrangements for reprinting a book of 4 lectures by
F.E. Simon, J.L. Allen, Kurti and Mendelssohn, which
was first published in 1952 under the title 'Low Temperature
Physics'.
Includes some royalty statements, 1958-65.
Miscellaneous other correspondence with Pergamon, 1958-69.
Correspondence, 1962-66, re arrangements for translation
of 'Streitgesprdche Uber Grundlagen der Naturwissenschaft
und Philosophie’ by A. Pfeiffer.
done by Mendelssohn's wife and one of his daughters and
Mendelssohn wrote the preface to the English edition of
the book.
Pfeiffer is also included here.
Brief correspondence re a further book by
The translation was
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Publications, editorial activities
The Philosophical Magazine
Physica
1963-64
1936-37
re papers submitted by Mendelssohn.
The Physical Society
(Mendelssohn's carbon only.)
Physics Today
1968-69
Includes typescript draft by Mendelssohn on
'States of Aggregation’.
Physikalische Gesellschaft ZUrich
Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion
1967
1938
The Royal Society
1935, 1939, 1958-70
Includes correspondence with F.A. Lindemann
te papers submitted by Mendelssohn for
publication, 1935.
Science Journal
Science Progress
Science Reporter
1969
1965, 1967
Spring Green Multimedia
1963-64
1965-66
Science and Technology
1968-69
Weidenfeld and Nicolson (World University
Library)
Correspondence arising from published letter
by Mendelssohn on jet propulsion.
Warburg, F.J. (Martin Secker and Warburg
Limited)
Taylor and Francis Limited
1973
1976
1974
1944
1967
1965
Szamuely, G.
The Times
The Times of India
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John Wiley and Sons
Yasukochi, K.
1962-63
1972
(Editor of the official journal of the
Cryogenic Engineering Association of Japan).
1964-65
Miscellaneous requests for permission to quote, reproduce
figures, etc., 1964-77.
Draft book reviews by Mendelssohn, all undated.
Miscellaneous drafts, data and calculations.
K.A.G. Mendelssohn
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SECTION E
CONFERENCES AND VISITS,
E.1 - E.152
INTERNATIONAL CRYOGENIC ENGINEERING
CONFERENCES, 1968-78
E.87,