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Title: Léon Rosenfeld Papers, 1911-1974

ID: 01/02/003

Creator: Rosenfeld, Léon (1904-1974)

Extent: 10.0 Linear Meters

Arrangement: The Finding Aid/Inventory is based upon Rosenfeld's own handwritten contents list, which can be seen as a pdf file <a href="http://nbafiles.nbi.dk/descr-rosenfeld.html"> here</a>.  In addition, there is material still remaining to be organized and catalogued.

Languages: French [fre], English [eng], German [ger]

School reports, lecture notes, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, clippings etc. Correspondents include: E. Bauer, F.J. Belinfante, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Niels Bohr, David Bohm, Max Born, Leon Nicolas Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Otto Robert Frisch, H. Fröhlich, George Gamow, Douglas Rayner Hartree, Werner Heisenberg, Walter Heitler, Leopold Infeld, Nicholas Kemmer, Oskar Klein, Hans Kopfermann, Hendrik (Hans) Anton Kramers, Christian Møller, Nevill Francis Mott, W. Opeckowski, Antonie Pannekoek, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, M. Podolanski, Alexandre Proca, Erwin Schrödinger, Pol F. Swings, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, John Archibald Wheeler, Wolfgang Yourgrau.

Physicist, with wide-ranging interests in the fields of history, philosophy and epistemology. Born in Belgium, 1904. Doctor from Univ. of Liège 1926. Studied in Paris, 1926-27 (Louis de Broglie, Leon Brillouin, Paul Langevin), Göttingen, 1927-29 (Max Born) and Zurich, 1929-30 (Wolfgang Pauli). From 1930-41, Rosenfeld taught theoretical physics at U. of Liège. Utrecht, 1940-47. Manchester, 1947-1958. NORDITA, Copenhagen (1958-1974). Chief Editor, Nuclear Physics (1955-1974). Was personal assistant to, and close collaborator of, Niels Bohr from 1930-1962. Research on quantum electrodynamics, epistemology of quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, especially nuclear reactions, statistical mechanics, history of science.

Processing Information: Rosenfeld's own listing as a .pdf file.