Correspondence
MS. Eng. misc. b. 197/A.22
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Correspondence
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. misc. b. 197/A.22
Summary
Contains
Correspondence with Richard J. Eden regarding Paul Dirac on occasion of Dirac's 70th birthday, 1971: 5 typescript pages of Peierls's reminiscences and recollections. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b. 205/C.82.)
Correspondence with Mrs. Robert Oppenheimer regarding proposed biography of her husband, 1972: 4 typescript pages of Peierls's reminiscences and recollections of Oppenheimer. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b. 197/A.19, MS. Eng. misc. b. 212/C.227-MS. Eng. misc. b. 212/C.228, MS. Eng. misc. d. 218/D.9, and MS. Eng. misc. b. 219/D.18.)
Correspondence with B.H. Muller regarding Leo Szilard: notes by Muller of his interview with Peierls (June 1972) annotated, amended and expanded by Peierls.
Comments by Peierls on Charles P. Enz's article on Pauli, 1972. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b.212/C.240.)
Correspondence with Charles Weiner and Otto Nathan (trustee of the Einstein estate) regarding some Einstein-Warburg correspondence, 1972-1973.
Correspondence with W.E. Frahn regarding the 'Bohr, Peierls and Placzek paper', 1974. (This paper was never published: see MS. Eng. misc. b. 203/C.29-MS. Eng. misc. b. 203/C.35.)
Date
1971-1974
Language
English
Physical extent
1 file
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Collection contents
Correspondence and papers of Sir Rudolf (Ernst) Peierls
Biographical and personal
Autobiographical and historical reminiscences
Correspondence
