London, Fritz, 1900-1954.
Fritz London papers, 1926-1954.
Correspondence, notebooks, drafts, and other papers. Correspondence with almost 350 people including Max Born, Enrico Fermi, Walter Gordy, Walter Heitler, Max von Laue, F.A. Lindemann (Viscount Cherwell), Lothar Nordheim, Wolfgang Pauli, Michael Polanyi, Erwin Schrd̲inger, Hertha Sponer, Leo Szilard, and Edward Teller. Subjects include chemistry and physics, the nazification of the German scientific profession in 1933, and London's emigration from Germany. Of particular interest is the exchange with von Laue between the years 1935-1939 and 1947-1952 which illuminates their sharp differences of opinion concerning the theory of superconductivity. Galleys and drafts of Superfluids, and a book-length manuscript of an unpublished work on the "significance of quantum theory for chemistry."
Major affiliations include: Universitt̃ Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1928-1933; University of Oxford, England, UK, 1933-1936; and Duke University, Durham, N.C. USA, 1939.
Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954
Gordy, Walter, 1909-1985
Chemistry
Solid state physics
Jewish scientists -- Germany.
National Socialism and Science -- Germany.
Physicists -- Correspondence.
Physics
Quantum theory
Scientists -- Germany.
Solid state physics.
Superconductivity.
Superfluidity -- Publishing.
Germany -- Emigration and immigration.
Drafts (documents). aat aat
Galley proofs. aat
Notebooks. aat
Born, Max, 1882-1970
Heitler, Walter.
Nordheim, Lothar, 1899-
Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.
Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976
Schrd̲inger, Erwin, 1887-1961.
Sponer, Hertha, 1895-1968
Szilard, Leo
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
Laue, Max von, 1879-1960.
AIP-ICOS
Duke University. Archives. 341 Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706, USA