London, Heinz, 1907-1970.
Heinz London papers and correspondence, 1886-1972.
The collection includes laboratory notebooks of various periods including the "Tube Alloys" project (some in German), notes, working papers and correspondence; there is also material on many conferences on low temperature, superconductivity, etc., attended by London. The collection also contains some correspondence, publications, and other material relating to London's brother, Fritz.
London was born and educated in Bonn; he studied at the Technische Hochschule Berlin, Munich, and Breslau before leaving Germany in 1934. After two years of research at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, he moved to the H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Bristol University. He was interned in 1940 but released to work on 'Tube Alloys,' the doename for the atomic bomb research project. After the war he continued to work on atomic energy, becoming Deputy Chief Scientist, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.
London, Fritz, 1900-1954.
Low temperatures -- Congresses.
Low temperature research.
Nuclear energy -- Research.
Superconductivity -- Congresses.
Notes. ftamc aat
Notebooks. aat
Tube Alloys Project.
AIP-ICOS
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