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Reference numberMS/850/2/1
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Ministry of Supply, Savoy Hill House, London to Sir Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton
Date29 November 1940
DescriptionLetter enclosed with four short papers concerning uranium fission by Hans von Halban and Lew Kowarski written in April and given to Blackett by Halban in the summer, with the request that they be held at the Royal Society until such time as 'conditions allow ' them to be published. The authors of the papers are keen that the papers be officially deposited in order to establish the primacy of their research with Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie on the subject of nuclear fission and would ultimately like them published with the original dates.
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Related materialLetter originally enclosed with papers MS/850/1/1-4.
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8131Blackett; Patrick Maynard Stuart (1897 - 1974); Baron Blackett of Chelsea; nuclear physicist1897 - 1974
NA8212Egerton; Sir; Alfred Charles Glyn (1886 - 1959); chemist1886 - 1959
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