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Collection Overview
Title: Oskar Klein Papers, 1916-1970
ID: 01/02/005
Primary Creator: Klein, Oskar (1894-1977)
Extent: 2.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Correspondence, alphabetic; manuscripts, chronological.
Subjects: Auger, Pierre, Bauer, E., Beck, Guido, Bohr, Harald, Bohr, Niels, Born, Max, Cassirer, Ernst, Deser, Stanley, Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice, Ehrenfest, Paul, Franzinetti, Gamow, George, Gordon, Walter, Haar, Dirk ter, Hartree, Douglas Rayner, Iwanenko, Dmitri, Jordan, Pascual, Lindhard, Jens, London, Fritz, Marshak, Robert Eugene, Marshall, Thomas, Meitner, Lise, Nishina, Yoshio, Oseen, Carl Wilhelm, Pauli, Wolfgang, Rosenfeld, Léon, Rosseland, Svein, Salam, Abdus, Waerden, Bartel Leendert van der, Wheeler, John Archibald, Wick, Gian Carlo, Yukawa, Hideki
Languages: Danish, Swedish, German, English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
One box with manuscripts 1920s-1960s. One box with correspondence (1916-1970). Correspondents include: Pierre Auger, E. Bauer, Guido Beck, Harald Bohr, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Ernst Cassirer, Stanley Deser, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Paul Ehrenfest, Franzinetti, George Gamow, Walter Gordon, Dirk ter Haar, Douglas Rayner Hartree, Dmitri Iwanenko, Pascual Jordan, Jens Lindhard, Fritz London, Robert Eugene Marshak, Thomas Marshall, Lise Meitner, Yoshio Nishina, Carl Wilhelm Oseen, Wolfgang Pauli, Léon Rosenfeld, Svein Rosseland, Abdus Salam, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, John Archibald Wheeler, Gian Carlo Wick, Hideki Yukawa.
Biographical Note
Born Mörby, Sweden, 1894, as the youngest son of Sweden's first rabbi, Gottlieb Klein. From the age of 15 he worked, on Svante Arrhenius's invitation, at the Nobel Institute on the solubility of salts with radioactive indicators. From 1918 Klein frequently visited Copenhagen and he stayed there after completing his doctoral dissertation at Stockholms Högskola in 1921. His interest turned to quantum theory, and with Svein Rosseland he introduced "collisions of the second kind". Stayed at Ann Arbor, Michigan 1923-25. Docent, Lund University, 1926. Introduced relativistic wave equation (Klein-Gordon equation). Lecturer NBI 1927. Deeply involved in Bohr's work on correspondence and complementarity. The Klein-Nishina formula (1929) convinced many physicists of the soundness of Dirac's relativistic equation, in spite of difficulties -- one of them known as Klein's paradox. Professor of mathematical physics, Stockholm Högskola, 1930-62. Worked on statistical mechanics, superconductivity (with Jens Lindhard, 1945), distributions of chemical elements and cosmology (cosmological model with Alfvén, 1963). Died in Stockholm 1977.
Subject/Index Terms
Auger, Pierre
Bauer, E.
Beck, Guido
Bohr, Harald
Bohr, Niels
Born, Max
Cassirer, Ernst
Deser, Stanley
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Ehrenfest, Paul
Franzinetti
Gamow, George
Gordon, Walter
Haar, Dirk ter
Hartree, Douglas Rayner
Iwanenko, Dmitri
Jordan, Pascual
Lindhard, Jens
London, Fritz
Marshak, Robert Eugene
Marshall, Thomas
Meitner, Lise
Nishina, Yoshio
Oseen, Carl Wilhelm
Pauli, Wolfgang
Rosenfeld, Léon
Rosseland, Svein
Salam, Abdus
Waerden, Bartel Leendert van der
Wheeler, John Archibald
Wick, Gian Carlo
Yukawa, Hideki
Administrative Information
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Niels Bohr Archive
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Browse by Correspondent:
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Correspondent 1: Auger, Pierre],
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Correspondent 2: Baricelli, Nils Aall],
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Correspondent 3: Bauer, E],
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Correspondent 4: Russell, Bertrand],
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Correspondent 5: Beck, Guido],
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Correspondent 6: Beckman, A.],
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Correspondent 7: Bialobrzesky, Czeslaw],
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Correspondent 8: Bohr, Harald],
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Correspondent 9: Bohr, Niels],
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Correspondent 10: Born, Max],
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Correspondent 11: Bøggild, Jørgen],
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Correspondent 12: Cassirer, Ernst],
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Correspondent 13: Deser, Stanley],
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Correspondent 14: Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice],
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Correspondent 15: Ehrenfest, Paul],
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Correspondent 16: Franzinetti, Carlo],
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Correspondent 17: Alpher, Ralph A.],
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Correspondent 18: Gamow, George],
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Correspondent 19: Ganelius, Tord & Dahlqvist, Germund],
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Correspondent 20: Gordon, Jan],
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Correspondent 21: Hartree, Douglas Rayner],
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Correspondent 22: Hadamard, Jacques],
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Correspondent 23: Heitler, Walter],
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Correspondent 24: Holst, Helge],
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Correspondent 25: Hussein, Zahur],
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Correspondent 26: Hägerström, Axel],
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Correspondent 27: Ivanenko, Dmitrii Dmitrievich],
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Correspondent 28: Jordan, Pascual],
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Correspondent 29: Kramers, Hendrik Anthony (Hans)],
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Correspondent 30: Laue,],
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Correspondent 31: Lindhard, Jens],
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Correspondent 32: London, Fritz],
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Correspondent 33: McVittie, George Cunliffe],
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Correspondent 34: Magnusson, Torsten],
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Correspondent 35: Mandel, H.],
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Correspondent 36: Marshak, Robert Eugene],
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Correspondent 37: Marshall, Thomas],
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Correspondent 38: Meitner, Lise],
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Correspondent 39: Neugebauer, Otto Eduard],
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Correspondent 40: Nishina, Yoshio],
[Correspondent 41: Oseen, Carl Wilhelm],
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Correspondent 42: Pauli, Wolfgang],
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Correspondent 43: Riesz, Marcel],
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Correspondent 44: Rosenfeld, Léon],
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Correspondent 45: Rosseland, Svein],
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Correspondent 46: Rydbeck, G.],
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Correspondent 47: Salam, Abdus],
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Correspondent 48: Schrödinger, Erwin],
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Correspondent 49: Springer, Julius (Publisher)],
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Correspondent 50: Tamm, Igor],
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Correspondent 51: ter Haar, Dirk],
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Correspondent 52: van Hove, Léon Charles Prudent],
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Correspondent 53: van der Waerden, Bartel Leendert],
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Correspondent 54: Wheeler, John Archibald],
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Correspondent 55: Wick, Gian Carlo],
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Correspondent 56: Yokoyama, Sumi],
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Correspondent 57: Yukawa, Hideki],
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