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Authorised form of nameSimon; Sir; Franz Eugen (1893 - 1956); physicist
Other forms of nameFrancis
Dates1893 - 1956
Place of birthBerlin, Germany
Date of birth02 July 1893
Place of deathOxford
Date of death31/10/1956
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1946; Kt 1955
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1941
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1948
SourceSources:
DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1958 vol 4 pp 225-256, plate, by N Kurti
References:
Brebis Bleaney, 'A Century of Physics in Oxford' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 333-343
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 1. Progress before 1940' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 317 - 322
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 2. Progress from 1945 to 1970' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 323 - 330
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 2. Progress from 1945 to 1970' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 323 - 330
Dr T V Attwood, 'Uranium Isotope Separation in the UK during World War II' Ph.D thesis, 2004
CodeNA1722
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
PB/4/11/13Copy (duplicated) of further letter from Francis Simon to Akers re lack of information, and relative costs of plutonium and a separation plantFebruary 1946
PB/4/11/3Letter from Sir Francis Simon on costs of projects and plants in US and UK, and notes by BlackettSeptember 1945
PB/4/11/8/3Lengthy (duplicated) letter from Francis Simon to Akers re status and functions of the Technical Committee and lack of information from the USJanuary 1946
PB/2/7/6/2Correspondence with Francis Simon, re possibility that He3 particles are emited in nuclear disintegration by cosmic rays.December 1947
IM/004189Simon, Franz Eugen1955
RR/70/124Referee's report by Franx Eugen Simon, on a paper 'Magnetic properties of some paramagnetic crystals at low temperatures' by Bhagawati Charan Guha1947
RR/70/28Letter from Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'Heat transfer by radiation to surfaces at low temperatures' by Moses Blackman, Alfred Charles Egerton and E V Truter to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society18 November 1947
RR/70/29Referee's report by Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'Heat transfer by radiation to surfaces at low temperatures' by Moses Blackman, Alfred Charles Egerton and E V Truter1947
RR/70/30Letter from Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'Heat transfer by radiation to surfaces at low temperatures' by Moses Blackman, Alfred Charles Egerton and E V Truter to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society21 January 1948
EC/1941/17Simon, Sir Franz Eugen: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PB/1/33/1/8Nobel Prize1948
RR/67/274Referee's report by Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'The high-frequency resistance of superconducting tin' by Heinz LondonJuly 1940
PB/6/2/3/1/1Blackett's folder inscribed 'Pure Science and the RS'October 1954-October 1955
RR/73/306Referee's report by William George Penney, on a paper 'The atomic heats of the rare earth elements' by D H Parkinson, Franz Eugen Simon and F H Spedding5 January 1951
RR/73/125Referee's report by Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of tin, mercury, indium and tantalum at liquid helium temperatures' by John Kenneth Hulm1950
RR/73/67Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Resistivity of pure metals at low temperatures. II. The alkaline earth metals' by David Keith Chalmers MacDonald, Kurt Mendelssohn and Franz Eugen Simon1950
RR/73/124Letter from Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of tin, mercury, indium and tantalum at liquid helium temperatures' by John Kenneth Hulm, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society [D C Martin]8 June 1950
RR/75/348Referee's report by Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'The de Haas - van Alphen effect' by D Shoenberg23 January 1952
RR/79/34Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Thermodynamic properties and melting of solid helium' by J S Dugdale and Franz Eugen Simon3 March 1953
RR/79/84Referee's report by Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'The carbon-dioxide nitrous-oxide system in the critical region' by D Cook26 April 1953
RR/79/106Referee's report by Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'Deviations from the principle of corresponding states' by D Cook and John Shipley Rowlinson17 May 1953
RR/77/257Referee's report by Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'The thermoelectric behaviour of tin and silver at liquid helium temperature' by G T Pullan23 December 1952
RR/79/168Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of diamond at low temperatures' by R Berman, Franz Eugen Simon and John Michael Ziman18 July 1953
RR/79/226Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Experiments on nuclear orientation at very low temperatures. I. Establishment of a method of nuclear alinement and its application to 60Co' by Brebis Bleaney, J M Daniels, Michael Anthony Grace, H Halban, Nicholas Kurti, F N H Robinson and Franz Eugen Simon8 September 1953
FSPapers of Sir Francis (Franz) Eugen Simon1906-1956
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