| Authorised form of name | Simon; Sir; Franz Eugen (1893 - 1956); physicist |
| Other forms of name | Francis |
| Dates | 1893 - 1956 |
| Place of birth | Berlin, Germany |
| Date of birth | 02 July 1893 |
| Place of death | Oxford |
| Date of death | 31/10/1956 |
| Research field | Physics |
| Activity | Honours:
CBE 1946; Kt 1955
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1941 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1948 |
| Source | Sources:
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 |
| Code | NA1722 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| PB/4/11/13 | Copy (duplicated) of further letter from Francis Simon to Akers re lack of information, and relative costs of plutonium and a separation plant | February 1946 |
| PB/4/11/3 | Letter from Sir Francis Simon on costs of projects and plants in US and UK, and notes by Blackett | September 1945 |
| PB/4/11/8/3 | Lengthy (duplicated) letter from Francis Simon to Akers re status and functions of the Technical Committee and lack of information from the US | January 1946 |
| PB/2/7/6/2 | Correspondence with Francis Simon, re possibility that He3 particles are emited in nuclear disintegration by cosmic rays. | December 1947 |
| IM/004189 | Simon, Franz Eugen | 1955 |
| RR/70/124 | Referee's report by Franx Eugen Simon, on a paper 'Magnetic properties of some paramagnetic crystals at low temperatures' by Bhagawati Charan Guha | 1947 |
| RR/70/28 | Letter 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 Society | 18 November 1947 |
| RR/70/29 | Referee'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 Truter | 1947 |
| RR/70/30 | Letter 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 Society | 21 January 1948 |
| EC/1941/17 | Simon, Sir Franz Eugen: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PB/1/33/1/8 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| RR/67/274 | Referee's report by Franz Eugen Simon, on a paper 'The high-frequency resistance of superconducting tin' by Heinz London | July 1940 |
| PB/6/2/3/1/1 | Blackett's folder inscribed 'Pure Science and the RS' | October 1954-October 1955 |
| FS | Papers of Sir Francis (Franz) Eugen Simon | 1906-1956 |
| RR/73/67 | Referee'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, K [Kurt?] Mendelssohn and Franz Eugen Simon | 1950 |
| RR/73/125 | Referee'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 Hulm | 1950 |
| RR/73/124 | Letter 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 |