| Description | Originally 'Part A': German correspondence, move to Oxford, correspondence on beginning war work for UK
File includes: a photograph of Simon with Prof Rudolf Peierls
Correspondence dating from Simon's time at Breslau, including papers requesting financial aid from the German Ministry for Science and Culture for the low temperature laboratory
A letter from Prof FA Lindemann to Charlotte Simon, Simon's wife, looking forward to Mrs Simon and her children coming to Oxford in the summer (letter dated 29 July 1933); letters from Simon applying to take personal funds and parts of his apparatus from Breslau with him to the UK (July 1933);
Simon's letter applying for the Chair of Physics at Birmingham University, 1936 (he was seeking a permanent academic post)
Letter from AD Lindsay, Vice Chancellor, Oxford University, on Simon offering his services to the UK in the event of war with Germany (1938), correspondence with RV Southwell on working with the Air Ministry in the event of war (1938-1939), correspondence with the Home Office and the German Embassy, London, on Simon's naturalization as a British subject (1939), correspondence with the Ministry of Supply on becoming an Associate Member of the Chemical Defence Committee (October 1939).
Correspondence with the Private Secretary to the Prime Minister on Simon's appointment as a CBE (December 1945) |