| Description | Correspondence betwwen Blackett and Jean Rosch of the Observatory on the Pic du Midi re the possibility, practicalities and funding of transfering the cloud chamber and magnet from Manchester to the Observatory; between Butler and Rosch re details of installation; between Blackett and Pierre Auger re collaboration between French and British scientists; correspondence re results obtained, with special reference to the possibility that one of the disintegration products of V-particles is a proton (see letter from RE Peierls, 26 April 1951 in B.45), photographs, plan, funding estimates; with J Clay and MF Perutz re Pic du Midi conference planned for August 1950.
See Bernard Lovell, 'P.M.S. Blackett: A Biographical Memoir', Royal Society: 1976, pp35-36
For lectures by Blackett on the subject see B.12, B.114 |