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Authorised form of nameKurti; Nicholas (1908 - 1998)
Dates1908 - 1998
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBudapest, Hungary
Date of birth14/05/1908
Date of death24/11/1998
ActivityEducation:
Trefort Utcai ('TretfordStreet') Gimnazium, betterknown as the Minta ('Model') Gimnazium. Went to Sorbonne, Paris to study applied physics (1926-1928); University of Berlin; Ph.D in low temperature physics under Franz Simon (1933)
Career:
Joined Franz Simon as technical assistant at the Technische Hochschule in Breslau (now Wroclaw). In September 1933 was at the Claredndon Laboratory with Simon.
Honours:
CBE 1973
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/03/1956
Age at election47
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1964-1967; VP 1965-1967
Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1969
OtherInfoAssociated material:
Papers deposited at Bodleian Library, Oxford - NCUACS catalogue 165/8/08 in 4 volumes
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2000 vol 46 pp 299-315, plate, by J H Sanders
References:
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 3. Progress from 1975 to 2001' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 331 - 344
CodeNA3628
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
HWT/31/20Royal Society Scientific Information CommitteeJune - August 1974
PB/9/1/71Correspondence with Nicholas Kurti1965
GLB/52/9N Kurti, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford to Brown29 April 1968
HWT/24/3Hungary1967 - 1968
HWT/36/1/7General correspondence and papersJuly 1966
HWT/31/6Royal Society Scientific Information CommitteeJanuary - February 1966
GLB/52/5N Kurti, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford to Brown1 April 1968
HWT/36/1/8General correspondence and papersAugust-November 1966
HWT/20/51Correspondence and papers regarding Council for Scientific Policy working group on scientific interchange, income tax under RSEP and meeting of Officers and others with Pierre Aigrain and H B G CasimirOctober 1969
HWT/35/3/1Correspondence, committee papers and Thompson's manuscript notes regarding fifth meeting of Commission held at Berlin, 20-25 March 19661966
PB/9/1/105Correspondence with Kurt Sitte and others1954-1965
IM/GA/GGRS/8538Kurti, Nicholas1989
RR/54/12Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, on a paper 'Experiments at very low temperatures obtained by the magnetic method I—The production of the low temperatures' by Nicholas Kurti and F. SimonMay 1935
RR/53/156Referee's report by John Cunningham McLennan, on a paper 'Experiments at very low temperatures obtained by the magnetic method I—The production of the low temperatures' by Nicholas Kurti and F Simon[November 1934]
HWT/20/76Draft record of discussion with Swedish and German scientists and draft record of discussion with representatives of Netherlands Science Policy CouncilJune 1971
GLB/52/1N Kurti, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford to Brown20 March 1968
HWT/20/9Correspondence and papers regarding Science Research Council's Senior Visiting Fellowship Scheme, Ford Foundation application, Wates Foundation fundingAugust - September 1966
WF/406Grant application from the Royal Commission on Historical Documents to the Wolfson Foundation1972-1976
EC/1956/12Kurti, Nicholas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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