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Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957.
Frederick Lindemann Cherwell papers and correspondence, circa 1899-1957.
Original material: The papers are very substantial and contain much material on Lindemann's career, professorship, scientific research, publications and correspondence, and his lectures and addresses. It includes such varied material as his pilot's log-books of 1916, correspondence with H.W. Nernst, F.W. Aston, G.I. Taylor (q.v.) and Albert Einstein, as well as family letters exchanged with his father and brother, and papers relating to negotiations for funding and research at the Clarendon Laboratory, and Lindemann's initiative in identifying and encouraging Jewish scientists wishing or obliged to leave Germany when the Nazis came to power. There is extensive documentation concerned with the Second World War. It includes some preliminary material about pre-war discussions on air defence (and the 'Tizard Committee') but deals essentially with the work of the Statistical Branch, formed at Churchill's request to assemble statistics and data and present them to him in accessible form, as minutes, diagrams and graphs. The papers preserve not only the final minute or graph but also the background documentation, correspondence or research on which they were based. A large number of topics of military, scientific and economic importance are represented in this way. There are also papers relating to the Conservative Party and Lindemann's political service and an extensive personal and social correspondence including members of the Churchill family.
Supplementary material: Relates almost entirely to Lindemann's career as a physicist and date mainly from the years spent in the laboratory of H.W. Nernst, circa 1910-1914. The papers are almost all autograph manuscript notes and drafts on specific heat, early quantum theory and the movement of electrons in atoms. There are also notes taken of contributions to discussions at a conference, probably the Second Solvay Conference of 1913, when X-ray spectroscopy and its impact on atomic theory was a principal topic.
Einstein correspondence (mostly concerning an invitation to visit Oxford) is in the following Cherwell files: 1927: D 54/1-7; 1930-1931: D55/1-22; 1932-1933: D57/l-28; 1934-1935: D 63/1-6; 1941: D 65/1-3; 1944: D 66/1-6; and 1945, 1946: D 67/1-2.
Physicist. Ph.D., Berlin University in 1910. LatChair of Experimental Philosophy at Oxford University in 1919 and was instrumental in transforming the Clarendon Laboratory into an important research institution. He was appointed personal assistant and scientific advisor to Winston Churchill. He was created Baron Cherwell in 1941 and was given ministerial rank as Paymaster-General, 1942-1945. When Churchill formed his government in 1951, he returned as Paymaster General advising on atomic energy research and general scientific matters. In 1954 he became a member of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957.
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Nernst, Walther, 1864-1941.
Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram, 1886-1975
Clarendon Laboratory.
Air defenses, Civil -- Great Britain.
Atomic theory.
Jewish scientists -- Germany.
Lend-lease operations (1941-1945).
Physical laboratories -- Administration.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Quantum theory.
Solid state physics.
Specific heat.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Government policy -- England.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Statistics.
X-ray spectroscopy.
Germany -- Armed Forces -- 20th century.
Diagrams. aat aat
Graphs. aat aat
Logs (records). aat aat
Minutes. aat
Physicists. lcsh
Aston, Francis William.
Cherwell family.
Churchill family
Great Britain. Statistical Branch.
Tizard Committee.
AIP-ICOS
Nuffield College, Oxford. Library. New Road, Oxford OX1 1NF
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