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Report on correspondence and papers of
KURT ALFRED GEORG MENDELSSOHN
(1906-1980)
Physicist
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Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of
KURT ALFRED GEORG MENDELSSOHN, FRS
(1906 - 1980)
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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
Ct =O:
C.34 - C.53
SECTION €
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
Et
E286
International Cryogenic Engineering
Conferences, 1968-78
E.87
-£E.101
Institut de la Vie Conferences,
1966-77
E.102-E.152
Other visits and conferences, 1960-76
SECTION F
CHINA, F.1 - F.42
Pit, hee
Visit to China, October 1971
Fieue fia
Talks, lectures, broadcasts,
publications
F.34 - F.42
Correspondence
SECTION G
PYRAMIDS, G.1 - G.77
G.1
-G.62
SECTION H
SECTION J
G.63- G.77
Correspondence
With an introductory note
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.
the advent of the Second World War the low temperature apparatus had to be dismantled
In the autumn of the same year Simon also came to Oxford, as did N. Kurti
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
their own after leaving the Clarendon, thus making their mark in low temperature
a succession of gifted research students, many of whom built up graduate schools of
and Mendelssohn turned to various collaborative projects in medical physics (see B.19 -
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.
centres all over the world.
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, we, 17Gl.
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.
Friedrich Wilhelms - Universitdt Berlin, 1931-32,
Letters from Mendelssohn to the Dean of the Faculty of
Philosophy,
re his 'Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Ble siveticde?
on 'Kalorimetrische Untersuchungen im Temperaturge biet
des flUssigen Heliums' a printed copy of which, dated 15 February
1932, is enclosed.
See also B.1-B.7.
For correspondence re research grants from
I.C.1. see B.14, B.15.
Correspondence with I.C.1. and the Home Office, 1933-39,
re Mendelssohn's residence permits and Certificate of
Naturalisation (1939).
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.
Red and black hard-cover notebook labelled 'Apparat B.
He Temp. Spez. Wdrme-Messungen.
I"
Black hard-cover notebook labelled 'Apparat B.
Spez. Wurme-Messungen._II'
He-Temp.
Contains records of experiments, 13 September-21 November
1925.
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 'K<everfahren I.
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 I.C.I. after
Mendelssohn's move to the Clarendon Laboratory.
1930
1931]
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 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.
Correspondence exchanged between Lindemann and the Rockefeller
Foundation, September 1932-January 1933, re grant application
by Mendelssohn for work at the Clarendon Laboratory.
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Correspondence with T.C. Keeley, October-December 1932,
te 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
7 pp. typescript describing experiments by
Dr. Kurt Mendelssohn.
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.
7 pp. typescript describing experiments
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
between May Ist 1933 and 30th April, 1934.
Helium Room No.1'.
J.D. Babbitt, J.R. Moore and T.C. Keeley.
6 March-15 July 1936.
Blue soft-cover notebook containing records of 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.
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.
One of the results of this was the suspension
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'.
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.
This invention was reported in The Lancet,
Shortly after the appearance of the Lancet paper, relations between Macintosh
and Mendelssohn began to deteriorate, apparently due to a report in the Sunday Chronicle
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-
pondence, for which see B.35-B.42.
July 1940, re arrangements for patenting the ether vaporiser.
Correspondence with the Oxford University Registry, May 1940,
te 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.
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 hav
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.
Fecoee 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.
Blow, S.
;
197]
1962-63
1957-71
1963-73
1959-65
1960-77
1969-70
Burton, R.
Brewer, D.
;
Altov, V.
A.
Bhagat, S.
M.
Anderson, R.A.
1958-66
Chandrasekhar, B.
Chopra, Vi
XK.
1958-69
1970-74
Chaudhuri, K.
Connolly, A.
1954, 1962-71
Campos, A.
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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.
:
:
Gascén, F.
probe, he
A.
Criten, 6...
S:
Hare, G.
:
1959-64
1957-67
1958-66
1963-77
1958-70
1963-71
1961-69
1967-76
1966-67
1966-70
1964-77
1962-66
Harrison, S.
1969-76
G.
M.
1966-67
1965-70
1966
Kerr, kK.
M.
Hasiguti, R.
R.
Khalatnikov, 1.
Lampel, G..-..P.
Karagyozyan, A.
1960
McCrum, N°
.G.
Melo Assi
A,
Meaden, G.
;
Martin, D.
:
1960-70
1966-71
1960-65
1965-76
1958-62
1962-75
Lowell, J.
Mikura, Z.
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Mortimer, M.
J.
Muféz Dominguez, J.
S.
Ohno, K.
Papp, E.
Probert, D.
Radhakrishnan, T.
S.
Rajagopol, 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.
Roa Kacy.
1963-73
Se calingam: R.
1965-75
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K.
M.
Y.
A.
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Shebalin, I.
1969-70
1958-76
1961-77
1962-70
Raychauduri, A.
Ray. = K.
Ries Aer.
Rosenberg, H.
1951, 1958-67
1970
Subramanyam, S.
Shiffman, C.
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J,
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1961-73
1969-70
1970
1960
1967-71
1960-62
1972-75
;
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V.
Spence, Ss...
Steele, W.
7.
A,
Shigi, T.
Suga, H.
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Sujak, B.
Sutcliffe, P.
W.
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Walton, As
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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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114
1963-74
Ab. 113
B.111
B.112
B.113
- Yoshida, I.
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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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.120-8 513!
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-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.
Correspondence, January-May 1971.
on the Manganese Project to March 1971.
Includes Progress Report
Correspondence, June-December 1971.
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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.
B.134, B.135
University of Science of Malaysia (formerly University Pulau
Penang)
9/2977.
Ss.
1934-35, 1966
1930s correspondence includes extensive discussions
of experimental methods and results.
Guggenheim, E.
A.
1938
1940
1936-37
Gutsche, H.
See also E.141.
1935-39
1971-75
Gunther, R.
T.
Haidemenakis, E.
D.
Correspondence re the affairs of the International
Science Foundation.
te transfer of old apparatus from the Clarendon to
the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
Continued
Arrangements for visit to Oxford and Harwell.
Hailsham, Q. McG.
Hasiguti, R.
R.
Holbrook, A.
J.
1932
1933
1957
1964
Hirschlaff, E.
Hoenow, A.
Horseman, A.
1939
K WG. Mendelssohn
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H.19 (Cont'd.)
Hoimed..
K,
Hume-Rothery, W.
1950, 1953
1943
Haz, 1.21
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF REFRIGERATION
1583)
Mendelssohn was President of Commission A2 until its
amalgamation with A.1 in 1976.
Correspondence with other members of |.1.R. re changes
in organisation, including amalgamation of Commissions
Al and A2, and re relationship with the International
Cryogenic Engineering Committee and the American
Cryogenic Engineering Committee.
See also E.1-E.86, especially E.72-E.82.
Correspondence March-November 1975.
Mainly discussion of points arising at 1.1.R. conference
in Moscow, September, which included a discussion on
the future of the I.1.R. (Mendelssohn did not attend
because of visa problems).
Correspondence Novemiser 1975-September 1976.
INTERNATIONA! INSTITUTE OF REFRIGERATION. UK
Standing Committee.
Includes arrangements for a meeting in London, 22 January
1976, to discuss the future of Commissions Al and A2.
Correspondence with committee members and with the
Director of I.1.R. (M. Anquez) re committee meetings,
publications, etc., 1972-77.
Leiden, July 1938.
Includes arrangements for Mendelssohn to attend
a meeting in
On proposed establishment at Cairo University of
laboratory for growing single crystals.
Kapitza, P.
L.
Keesom, W.
HH.
1934, 1938, 1946
1934-38
1937
1976
Jaeger, F.
M.
On experiments with Lanthanum.
Kamel, R.
K yes Mendelssohn
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General correspondence
Kite J
A,
1936, n.d.
On thermal behaviour of tin at very low temperatures.
Krauss, |.
Kronberger, H.
(Mendelssohn's carbon only .)
Kuhn, F.
Kurti, N.
1931-32
1963
1958-59
1931-33, 1956, 1966
1930s correspondence consists mainly of letters from
Kurti to Mendelssohn, addressed to 'Lieber Onkel Kurt'
and signed 'Niko' (see H.14).
written to Mendelssohn in England, May-August 1933,
from Breslau and later Budapest, before Kurti's own
move to join Simon at Oxford.
The majority were
1956 correspondence consists of one letter only, from
Mendelssohn to Kurti, describing the circumstances of
Simon's death and the consequences for the future of
the Clarendon Laboratory.
bee; J.
A.
1962-69, 1976
Leonhardt, F.
Lifshitz, E.
M.
re L.D. Landau.
London, F.
London, H.
re collaborative work and publications.
1946 correspondence is re work on helium films.
1939 letter is to Simon enclosing 3 pp. typescript on
'The -phenomenom of liquid He and the Bose-Einstein
degeneracy’.
1933 letters are signed 'Behemoth' (see H.14).
1933, 1939, 1946
1933, 1937, 1948
K.A.G.
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General correspondence
LUbeck, H.
MacDonald, D.
K.
C.
1938
1947, 1953, 1963
1963 correspondence is on the superconductive
transition.
Meissner, W.
Mendelssohn, T.
Menon, M.
GG.
K.
Moore, J.
re work on tantalum.
Mortimer, M.
J.
Mott, N.
F.
1936, 1954
1938
1965, 1972
n.@ > 1935
1970, 1973
1935-37, 1968
Includes arrangements for Mendelssohn to give a paper
at a conference on the metallic state held in Bristol,
July 1935, and discussion of work on tantalum and
other substances.
1948
n.d.
1933, 1935-36
Nernst, E.
Olsen; J.-L.
Peierls, R.
E.
1959, 1967-69
1968 correspondence is re science in India.
Includes arrangements for Pfeiffer to give the first
Wolfson College Lecture in November 1967 and corres-
pondence with publishers re translation of Pfeiffer's
books.
1971
(Mendelssohn's carbon only.)
1932
1937
Railston, W.
Ram, A.
1962-65
Pfeiffer, A.
Pfob,
Pontius, Roos
B:
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Hi 36
Ramanathan, K.
C.
1963-66
H.37-H.40
THE ROYAL SOCIETY
H.37
Correspondence relating to Mendelssohn's service on Royal
Society Committees, 1962-66, including Soirée Committee,
Physics Education Committee (with the Institute of Physics
and Physical Society), and Ad Hoc Committee on Relations
with Academia Sinica (1966).
Correspondence re awards and elections, 1957-75.
Correspondence with successive Foreign Secretaries of the
Royal Society, 1957-74, including report on a visit to
U.S.A, in 1960.
Miscellaneous other correspondence, 1957-73.
Ruhemann, M.
1931-35, 1952
Includes postscripts and one letter from Ruhemann's
wife Barbara.
1935
1932
Schubnikow,
1957
H.43, H.44
H.43
1936-38
Schweiser, H.
Shoenberg, D.
1936-38, 1957
Personal and scientific correspondence.
Shoenberg's 1938 letters were written from Moscow.
Some of
and scientific achievements.
Mainly on progress of low temperature research.
Folder also includes correspondence with N. Arms
(biographer), the Royal Society and others, 1958-67,
with reminiscences of Simon and comments on his career
re proposal to invite a number of Russian scientists
to attend a conference at the Mond Laboratory, Cambridge,
and also visit Oxford.
Silsbee, F.
B.
see
H.46
sion, To
E.
1932-37
K.A.G. Mendelssohn
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General correspondence
Silsbee, F.
B.
re proposed visit to Oxford.
seer, J
6 C.
prin, Ae
oG.
Sommerfeld, A.
Spence, R.
(Mendelssohn's carbon only.)
Stephens, R.
W.
B.
Swain, R.
Taconis, K.
W.
Taxa, 1.
1937
1937-38
1937, 1947
1966
n.d.
1931
1947
1938-39
Includes 3 pp. typescript on 'Transport Phenomena
in Helium II’.
Tokugawa, M.
Tuyn, W.
1960-62
1946
Tyndall, A.
M.
Van Den Berg, G.
= J.
Includes 6 pp. typescript 'On the transfer rate of
the Rollin-Simon film’.
News of the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory after the
war.
In alphabetical order.
Replies to letters of congratulation sent by Mendelssohn,
mainly to colleagues on their election to Fellowship of
the Royal Society, 1941-56.
Wilson, .
1.
1937-39
1950
Van Laer, H.
Von Lave, M.
1940
1949
1949, 1956
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General correspondence
Shorter scientific correspondence, 1932-77.
order.
Not indexed.
In alphabetical
Shorter personal correspondence, 1945-77.
order.
Not indexed.
In alphabetical
Unidentified and first-name signatures.
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SECTION J
NON-PRINT MATERIAL, J.1 - J.15
Pe
Photographs of Mendelssohn
Includes one taken in the Clarendon Laboratory, n.d. 1930s,
and one with J. Daunt and R.B. Pontius.
There are also two
later photographs (+1 duplicate), one dated 1972.
Photographs of friends and colleagues
In alphabetical order.
Bowers, R.
Brewer, D.
Browh,° Jie
8
Chandrasekhar, B.S.
3 photographs including one with C.S. Hung.
Cherwell (F.A. Lindemann)
See also J.1.
Hull, J.
3 photographs.
London, F.
Daniels, J.
M.
R.
(née Moore)
Daunt) J.72-G.
Continued
4 photographs, including 3 with F.J. Lenthal.
MacDonald, Dp.
KK.
2 photographs.
McCrum, NN.
G.
7 photographs .
Parkinson, D.
2 photographs.
C.
Olen
K.A.G. Mendelssohn
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J.5 (Cont'd.)
Peshkov, VV.
P.
Non-print material
Rosenberg, H.
White, G.
K.
3 photographs.
Unidentified
Photographs taken at cryogenic conferences in Moscow,
1966 (2) and Eindhoven, 1972 (4,
in envelope).
Photographs of apparatus
2 photographs of damaged apparatus after an explosion in
Simon's laboratory in Berlin, March 1930.
belonged to N. Kurti.
The apparatus
Hydrogen liquifiers and compressors in the Clarendon Laboratory,
various dates.
Helium liquifiers in the Clarendon Laboratory
various dates.
Miscellaneous cryogenic apparatus, mostly from other
laboratories.
Photographs taken during Mendelssohn's visits to China.
(See Section F.)
Photographs of Harwell apparatus, some with identifications.
Still photographs from a film illustrating superfluidity made
at the Clarendon Laboratory.
For correspondence and reports on Mendelssohn's collaborative
work with Harwell, see B.115-B.118.
Miscellaneous other photographs, mainly for publications.
K.A.G. Mendelssohn
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INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
ABRIKOSOV, A.
A.
ADAMS, E.
Dwight
ADAMSON, Robert
ADRIAN, Edgar Douglas, Baron
AITCHISON, Gordon J.
AKAR, Philippe
ALBRECHT, C.
ALDRED, Cyril
ALEKSEEVSKI, IN.
E.
ALLEN, John Frank
ALTOV, Valerii Aleksandrovich
ALVAREZ, Luis W.
AMBASTA, S._
P.
DiZ2
B.49
F.13
E. SY
E.140
E.14
D.97
G.63
¥
B.110
B:74: -D-72D 29,. D122
E.12,.£,20 foi,
H.38
B.44
E.144, G.64, G.65
D.128
B.45
B.74
B.110, E.131
D.131
E.62
D.96
E.149
B.50
A.9
H.45
B.85
B.56
E.65, H.20, H.21
B.95, B.133
ARAFA.
Salah
ANHALT, A.
ANQUEZ, Michel
ARGYLE, Michael
APPLETON A.
-D.
ANDREW. E.R.
ARAUJO, J.
Moreira
ANDERSON, R.A.
ANDRONIKASHVILI, E. — L.
E.64, E.66, E.85
B.13, H.2
D.109, H.3
E.26, 6:92 8-30 © @,
B.00, 8.36,/8. 37, B00,
B.39
ARMS, Nancy
ASTIOM, Hons U-
ATKINS, Kenneth
AWBERY, J:cco
HH:
BABBITT, Jack D.
BAILEY, Colin A.
BALDUS, Wolfgang
K.A.G. Mendelssohn
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Index of correspondents
BALTENSPERGER, W.
BANERJEE, M.
BARDEEN, John
K.
BARON, Stanley
BARRER, R.
M.
BASU, D.
BATES, Leslie Fleetwood
BELLIS, James O.
BERG, W.
BERLIN, Sir Isaiah
BETTS, David S.
BEWILOGUA, Ludwig
BHAGAT, Satindar Mohan
S.
D.126
B.46
B.46, E.45
D.51, G.28,°G.30, G.32.
G.36
Mot
Ete, hae
A.7
G.66
H.4
H.4
B
D.93
E.3, E:27,Riae £43,
256, £.62, E66 B74;
E
.75, E.82, £.83, E.85
E
46, B.53, B.85
.136
48
14, E.46,
.62, E.66,
.20, H.21
E
E
H
B
E
R.
H.
BHANDARKAR, R.
BLACKMAN, Moses
Binet! CLEWS, C.J.
BIRMINGHAM, Bascom W.
BIRSS, R.
BITTEN, E.
BLACKETT, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron
.
74
.122, B.123, B.124, B.125,
.126, B.127, B.128, B.129
(397 G.2
Fy D7,
127, H.5
»0f,. B.Gty Bete, earl;
pat; Gile
Me, C97
A5
BLANCHARD, E.R.
BLATT, Frank J.
BLIN-STOYLE, Roger John
BLEANEY, Brebis
BLAU, Tom L.
BLOUNT, B.
:90
vi
29
2
Jeo,
B
B
B
F
A
D
B
B
F
B
B
B
K.A.G. Mendelssohn
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Index of correspondents
BLOW, Stephen
BOASE, Thomas Sherrer Rose
BOGNER, G.
BOOTH, N.
BORN, Max
BOSANQUET, Charles lon Carr
BOSE, A.
BOWEN, Edmund John
BOWRA, Sir (Cecil) Maurice
Sorte, Aas
oe.
BRETSCHER, Egon
BREWER, Douglas F.
SROADBENT, Ku:
P.
BROCK, Michael George
B.47
B.47
D.80
E.110
A.7, H.6
A.4
E.151, H.6
A.7
G.2
B.45
H.6
B.48, B.58, D.22, D.93,
D.94, D.98, D.99, D.100,
F.42, G.27, H.7
BROCKMAN, Sir Ronald
BRONOWSKI, Jacob
BULLARD, Sir Edward (Crisp)
BROWN, James B.
BRYAN, Derek
BUCHMANN, E.
BUCKEL, Werner
F.41
A.9, A.10, B.44, B.53,
B.81, B.83, B.86, B.98,
B.122, B.123, B.124, B.125,
B.127, E.94, F.38, H.34
B.53
H.8
B.88, C.48, G.66, H.8
F.4
H.8
C49,°D338; £2 £27,
E.65, G.10
he7
D.44
B.57
B.132
H.8
B.49
B.19, B.23
BULLOCK, Alan Louis Charles, Baron
BUZZARD, Sir (Edward) Farquhar
BURTON; Ee
alk.
BURTON, Richard
BURCHAM, William Ernest
BURHOP, Eric Henry Stonely
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Index of correspondents
CAHN, R. . W.
CALDER, Nigel
CALVIN, Melvin
CAMPBELL, Bruce G.
CAMPOS, Ayres de
CARERI, Giorgio
CARRINGTON, Richard
CECIL, Rupert
CERNY, J.
CHAGLA, M. — C.
Rrentist..J.
CHALMERS, Bruce
CHAMBERS, Robert Guy
CHANDRASEKHAR, B.S.
CHAPERON, Yves
D.68
D.119
E.99, E.144
E.117
B.50
D.76, E.43, E.74, E.80,
E.85, E.96
D.9
B.85
E.124
C. 39
B.85
D.108
D.7
B.49, B
E.55, E.56, E.65, E.66
B.52, D.76, E.105, E.118
D.17
F.14
F.36;°F 87
A.4, B.8, B.9, B.13, B.30,
B.31, D.127, H.51
51
CHAUDRON, Georges
Viscount Cherwell
CHESTER, Geoffrey V.
CHEN, Kuan-l!.
CHENG, Yueh
CHOPRA, Vinod Kumar
CHAUDHURI, K.
D.
CHORLEY, Robert Samuel Theodore, Baron
CHERWELL, Frederick Alexander Lindemann,
D.128, G.1
E.104
E.69, E.97, E.104, F.34,
F.38
G.20
F.36
CHUANG, Yen
CLARK, Ronald W.
CLARKE, Robin
E36
D.29, D.33
CHOTANI, A.
Hamid
B.85
B.53
F.35
Poriy.
CHOU, Hsiang-pu
CHOU, Pei-yuvan
GertSiiE, R.
Hy
CHU, Te-kuei
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Index of correspondents
CLAYTON, Peter A.
CLOSS, John O'Neill
CLOW, Archie
COCHRAN, William
COCKCROFT, Sir John Douglas
CODLIN,. E.
M.
COE, Michael D.
COLEMAN, Earl
COLES, Bryan R.
COLLIER, Ho
<8.
COLLINS, Sam
CONNOLLY, Albert
CONTE, Rolland R.
CORNER, W:.
D:
CORSAN, John M.
D.49, G.31, G.67
H.9
C.40
G.20
A.7, H.9
D.111
G.3
D.71, D.90, D.96
B.84
F.40
H.10
B.54
D.93, D.94, D.95
COWAN, J.
COWAN, S._
A.
L.
CRISTESCU, Silvia
CRONHEIM, Georg E.
COULSON, Charles Alfred
COTTRELL, Sir Alan (Howard)
CRITCHLOW, Philip Richard
E.142
B.55
E.95
B.80, H.38
B.85
B.23, Bz 26,895, B.36
H.10
B.56
D.67
F.40
B.25, B.33
D.92
H.51
A.4
H.11
CURRAN, Sir Samuel (Crowe)
DARLINGTON, Cyril Dean
DALITZ, Richard Henry
CURTIS, William Edward
H.38
B.122
MAORl A,so
ud,
GROWTHER, J.:°
G,
CUMMINGS, Kent
DARROW, Karl K.
K.A.G. Mendelssohn
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Index of correspondents
DASH, J.
DAUNT, John G.
G.
DAVEY, Gordon
Dearies: ER.
DAVIS, Harold L.
DE BRUHL, Marshall
DEBYE, Peter
DEKKER, Maurits
DE NOBEL, J.
DESHOTELS, Warren J.
DESIRANT, Maurice
DICK, William E.
DIEHL, Harvey
DIETRICH, Isolde
DORON, DSM.
D.93
B.48, D.92, D.93, D.94,
D.95, D.96, D.98, D.100,
D.105, E.122, H.11
B.57
A.7, H.11
D.43
wo
ay
3
19
56
i
113
44
e
O
N
O
o
O
e
O
a
O
O
G
DOWUONA, M.
DREW 5..°
Ms
DQID GE PF.
R.
DOBBS, E.
Roland
DUDBRIDGE, Glen
DULY, Sidney John
DOWNES, Leonard S.
DUNHAM, Sir Kingsley (Charles)
D.97, D.98
G.68
B.74
B.60
E.140
B.123, B.129
D.99
F.4]
D.44
H.39
B.66
B.58, B.123, B.124, B.125,
B.127, B.128, B.129, D.105
G.69
DZIWORNOOH, Peter Ayaovi
EDWARDS, lorweth Eiddon Stephen
ECCLES, Sir John Carew
E. 108, Evizs;