| Authorised form of name | Mendelssohn; Kurt Alfred Georg (1906 - 1980) |
| Dates | 1906 - 1980 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 07/01/1906 |
| Date of death | 18/09/1980 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/03/1951 |
| Age at election | 45 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1967 |
| Source | AssocMaterial:
CSAC 93/4/83. Papers deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1983 vol 29 pp 361-398, plate, by D Shoenberg
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 |
| Code | NA6769 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/003063 | Mendelssohn, Kurt Alfred Georg | nd |
| EC/1951/14 | Mendelssohn, Kurt Alfred Georg: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/003064 | Mendelssohn, Kurt Alfred Georg | nd |
| RR/69/78 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'An experiment on the mechanism of superconductivity'by J G Daunt and Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn | 1945 |
| RR/65/26 | Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Photographic sensitivity and the reciprocity law at low temperatures' by W F Berg and Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn | June 1938 |
| RR/72/185 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Experiments on the superconductive transition' by David Keith Chalmers Macdonald and Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn | 1949 |
| PB/1/33/2 | Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | 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 |