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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
Royal Society activity	Medals and prizes: Hughes Medal 1967
Sources	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
Royal Society code	NA6769

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Reference number	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

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