Record

RefNoFS/7/1/10
Previous numbersFS/14/1/8C
LevelFile
TitleCorrespondence with Herbert Frohlich and Kurt Wohl
Date1935-1945
DescriptionFrohlich left Germany in 1935, reaching Bristol by way of Rome and Holland, with support from the Academic Assistance Council. Apart from a few months of internment in 1940 as an enemy alien he spent the war in Bristol, and then went to Liverpool in 1948 at Sir James Chadwick's invitation. During the thirties his research was mostly on semiconductors and insulators.

Correspondence is mostly technical but includes a letter from Frohlich to Simon from the camp he was interned in at the start of the Second World War.

Wohl moved from Germany to Oxford University in February 1939. He undertook research and gave lectures in the Department of Botany at Oxford before moving to the USA in 1941. Wohl's research areas included the properties of gases at high temperatures and the energetics and kinetics of photosynthesis.

The correspondence includes a letter of recommendation from Simon for Wohl, to support Wohl's application to work in the USA, and correspondence from 1945 on Schrodinger's book 'What is Life?'.
LanguageEnglish and German
Extent1 file
FormatManuscript and typescript documents
AccessStatusOpen
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