| Authorised form of name | Kurti; Nicholas (1908 - 1998) |
| Dates | 1908 - 1998 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Budapest, Hungary |
| Date of birth | 14/05/1908 |
| Date of death | 24/11/1998 |
| Activity | Education:
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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/03/1956 |
| Age at election | 47 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1964-1967; VP 1965-1967
Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1969 |
| General context | Associated material:
Papers deposited at Bodleian Library, Oxford - NCUACS catalogue 165/8/08 in 4 volumes |
| Sources | Obituaries:
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 |
| Royal Society code | NA3628 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| HWT/31/20 | Royal Society Scientific Information Committee | June - August 1974 |
| PB/9/1/71 | Correspondence with Nicholas Kurti | 1965 |
| GLB/52/9 | N Kurti, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford to Brown | 29 April 1968 |
| HWT/24/3 | Hungary | 1967 - 1968 |
| HWT/36/1/7 | General correspondence and papers | July 1966 |
| HWT/31/6 | Royal Society Scientific Information Committee | January - February 1966 |
| GLB/52/5 | N Kurti, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford to Brown | 1 April 1968 |
| HWT/36/1/8 | General correspondence and papers | August-November 1966 |
| HWT/20/51 | Correspondence 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 Casimir | October 1969 |
| HWT/35/3/1 | Correspondence, committee papers and Thompson's manuscript notes regarding fifth meeting of Commission held at Berlin, 20-25 March 1966 | 1966 |
| PB/9/1/105 | Correspondence with Kurt Sitte and others | 1954-1965 |
| IM/GA/GGRS/8538 | Kurti, Nicholas | 1989 |
| RR/54/12 | Referee'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. Simon | May 1935 |
| RR/53/156 | Referee'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/20/76 | Draft record of discussion with Swedish and German scientists and draft record of discussion with representatives of Netherlands Science Policy Council | June 1971 |
| GLB/52/1 | N Kurti, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford to Brown | 20 March 1968 |
| HWT/20/9 | Correspondence and papers regarding Science Research Council's Senior Visiting Fellowship Scheme, Ford Foundation application, Wates Foundation funding | August - September 1966 |
| WF/406 | Grant application from the Royal Commission on Historical Documents to the Wolfson Foundation | 1972-1976 |
| EC/1956/12 | Kurti, Nicholas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/79/189 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal and magnetic properties of potassium chromium alum below 0.1'K' by J M Daniels and Nicholas Kurti | 27 August 1953 |
| RR/79/226 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Experiments on nuclear orientation at very low temperatures. I. Establishment of a method of nuclear alinement and its application to 60Co' by Brebis Bleaney, J M Daniels, Michael Anthony Grace, H Halban, Nicholas Kurti, F N H Robinson and Franz Eugen Simon | 8 September 1953 |
| RR/79/303 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal and magnetic properties of chromium methylamine alum between 0.01 and 1'K' by W E Gardner and Nicholas Kurti | 18 December 1953 |