| Description | Heinz London researched low-temperature physics under Simon at Breslau. When Simon moved to the UK in 1933, London followed him to Oxford. He was interned at the start of the Second World War, but after his release he worked on isotope separation for the UK atom bomb project. After the war he joined the new Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.
Fritz London (Heinz's brother) also left Germany for Oxford in 1933. After a spell at the University of Paris he immigrated to the United States in 1939, to become professor of theoretical chemistry at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
The brothers developed the phenomenological theory of superconductivity, providing a new foundation for the understanding of molecular forces.
The correspondence in this file is of a technical nature and includes a copy of 'Zeitschrift fur Physik', including a paper by Max von Laue and Fritz and Hans London, entitled 'Zur Theorie der Supraleitung' and a draft copy of a paper by Fritz London entitled, 'On the Bose-Einstein Condensation'. |