Halban, Hans von, 1908-1964.
Hans Halban papers, 1939-1940.
Research notebook; correspondence; reports; patents. Halban brought this collection from France after the 1940 German invasion. The notebooks (1939-1940) related to Halban's work on uranium chain reactions. The correspondence (1939-1940) refers to the funding and procurement of apparatus and radioactive materials (including uranium and radium) for research in chain reactions at the Joliot-Curie laboratory in Paris, questions on fission research, the progress of Halban's and Lew Kowarski's fission experiments, German atomic bomb research, and the possibility of realizing a uranium fission-based explosive device. The reports also document Halban's research in these areas. The patents (1939-1940) are for a polymerization process, and the utilization of thermal energy derived from atomic decomposition. Correspondents include: Lǒn Brillouin, Andr ̌Heilbronner, Frďřic Joliot, and Lew Kowarski.
Physicist (nuclear physics). Charg ̌de recherches, Laboratoire de Chimie Nuclǎire, Collg̈e de France (1938-1940); leader of British-Canadian team at Montreal Laboratory of Atomic Energy (1942-1945); and professor of physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford (1946-1956).
Brillouin, Lǒn, 1889-1969.
Joliot-Curie, Frďřic.
Nuclear fission -- Research -- France.
Polymers and polymerization -- Research -- France.
Radioactive substances -- Research -- France.
Radium -- Research -- France.
Uranium -- Research -- France.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
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Heilbronner, Andr.̌
Kowarski, Lew.
Joliot-Curie Laboratory (Paris, France).
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