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Authorised form of nameFrisch; Otto Robert (1904 - 1979)
Dates1904 - 1979
Place of birthVienna, Austria
Date of birth01/10/1904
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death22/09/1979
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityHonours:
OBE 1946
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1948
Age at election43
SourceSources:
DSB vol 17 pp 321-322
AssocMaterial:
CSAC 87/5/82, NCUACS 31/7/91. Papers deposited in Trinity College Library, Cambridge
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1981 vol 27 pp 283-306, plate, by Sir Rudolf Peierls
Dr T V Attwood, 'Uranium Isotope Separation in the UK during World War II' Ph.D thesis, 2004
CodeNA6099
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1948/06Frisch, Otto Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/77/134Referee's report by Otto Robert Frisch, on a paper 'Energy values for some proton and deuteron reactions with Li6, Li7, Be9, B11 and N15' by E R Collins, C D McKenzie and C A Ramm22 August 1952
RR/75/141Letter from Otto Robert Frisch, on a paper 'A phenomenological approach to meson production in nucleon-nucleon collisions' by E A Power, to D C Martin25 June 1951
RR/73/132Letter from Otto Robert Frisch, on a paper 'Experiments on the reaction T(d, n)He4 ' by D L Allen and M J Poole, to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society13 June 1950
RR/77/133Referee's report by Otto Robert Frisch, on a paper 'A precise technique for the determination of some nuclear reaction energies' by E R Collins, C D McKenzie and C A Ramm22 August 1952
RR/77/69Referee's report by Otto Robert Frisch, on a paper 'Proton-proton scattering at 147 MeV' by James Macdonald Cassels, Thomas Gerald Pickavance and Godfrey Harry Stafford9 May 1952
RR/75/140Letter from Otto Robert Frisch, on a paper 'A phenomenological approach to meson production in nucleon-nucleon collisions' by E A Power, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society9 June 1951
RR/79/112Referee's report by Otto Robert Frisch, on a paper 'The radioactive decay of Ca41' by Fred Brown, G C Hanna and L Yaffe21 June 1953
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