Janus: The Papers of Lise Meitner

Churchill/MTNR 8 contains:
1	Photograph album
2	Press cuttings and printed ephemera
3	Photographs of Lise Meitner and her family
4	Photographs of Lise Meitner and others
5	Portrait photographs of Lise Meitner
6	Photographs of buildings and laboratory equipment
7	Holiday photographs and postcards
8	Photographs of others
9	Documents found with the photographs

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The Papers of Lise Meitner

Title	Photographs of Lise Meitner and others
Reference	MTNR 8/4
Covering Dates	1888–1964
Extent and Medium	19 files

Churchill/MTNR 8/4 contains:

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 21 black-and-white photographs and 1 modern copy print. Including photographs of the Meitner family, undated (1); a school group, including Lise Meitner, 1888 (1); Lise Meitner as a girl sitting at a bench, undated (1); a group, possibly students, including Lise Meitner, 1905 (1); Lise Meitner with a man, possibly Gustav Hertz, hiking in the country, 1906 (1); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in the laboratory at Emil Fischer's Chemistry Institute in Berlin, 1908 (5); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in the laboratory at the newly constructed Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, 1909 (1); Lise Meitner in the country with Grete or Emma Planck, 1911 (6); and Lise Meitner on a picnic in the country with Otto Hahn and Grete or Emma Planck, ca. 1911-13 (5).
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1888–1913

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 36 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Lise Meitner in the country with Eva von Bahr-Bergius, 1913 (2); Lise Meitner in the garden of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, 1913 (6); Lise Meitner with a group in Wartburg, 1913 (1); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in the laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, 1913 (2); Lise Meitner in an open air restaurant or tea garden, 1913 (1); Lise Meitner hiking with Elisabeth or Gertrud Schiemann and Grete or Emma Planck, ca. 1913-15, including their Wanderung from Munich to Vienna, summer 1913 (9); Lise Meitner and Eva von Bahr-Bergius in the laboratory, 1914 (1); a meeting in Göttingen, including David Hilbert, 1918 (11); Lise Meitner on a picnic in the country with Hans Geiger, 1919 (2); and Niels Bohr and Arnold Sommerfeld in Lund, 1919 (1).
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1913–1919

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 17 black-and-white photographs and 7 original negatives. Photographs of Lise Meitner during the First World War, including the military hospital in Lemberg [now L'viv, Ukraine], where she served as a nurse and X-ray technician, 1915-16 (10), and photographs of Trient [now Trento, Italy] and the Lublin Ghetto [now in Poland], which she visited, 1916 (8).
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1915–1916

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 34 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Niels Bohr's visit to the Wednesday colloquium in Berlin, with Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Hans Geiger, Gustav Hertz and James Franck among others, April 1920 (4); a farewell celebration for James Franck, including Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Walter Grotrian, Gustav Hertz and Fritz Haber, December 1920 (4); Lise Meitner on a bicycle, possibly in Berlin-Dahlem, 1920 (4); a group in Munich, possibly including Otto Stern, 1920 (2); Lise Meitner with Walter Grotrian in Göttingen, March 1921 (4); Lise Meitner at a conference in Freiberg, with Otto Hahn and Hans Geiger, May 1921 (9); Lise Meitner in the mountains at Annaberg, 1921 (1); Lise Meitner and a group of friends on an outing to Hven island, Sweden, 1921 (4); Otto Hahn in a boat, 1921 (1); and Lise Meitner on the terrace of a house, 1922 (1).
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1920–1922

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 34 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of staff at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, including Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, June-July 1924 (4); a Bunsentagung conference in Göttingen, 1924 (1); Lise Meitner on holiday with friends, August 1925 (3); an audience in Göttingen wearing masks and party hats, including Max Planck, 1925 (1); a meeting in Tübingen, including Paul Ewald, June 1926 (3); a holiday group at Silvaplana, including Otto Hahn and Max Born, 1926 (1); a group on an outing in the country, April 1927 (1); Lise Meitner in Hamburg, July 1927 (1); participants at the 5th Solvay Congress in Brussels, including Max Planck and Hendrik Lorentz, October 1927 (1); Lise Meitner with a group on an outing in the country, 1927 (1); an informal party, perhaps of colleagues from the laboratory, 1927 (1); Lise Meitner with a friend in Grunewald, May 1928 (1); Lise Meitner and friends in swimming costumes in a garden in Berlin-Dahlem, summer 1928 (1); Lise Meitner with a friend, 1928 (1); an informal party, perhaps of colleagues from the laboratory, 1928 (2); Lise Meitner, 1928 (1); Lise Meitner with a group, possibly including Otto Stern, April 1929 (2); Lise Meitner and a friend on the balcony of a house, August 1929 (1); a party, possibly a departmental Christmas party, including Lise Meitner, 1929 (2); Lise Meitner and colleagues, including Gustav Hertz, in Venice and on the beach at the Venice Lido, undated (4).
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1924–1929

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 23 black-and-white photographs. Photographs of a meeting in Cambridge, including Irène Joliot-Curie, Walter Bothe and Hans Geiger. Also with photographs of Lise Meitner and Piotr Kapitza outside the newly constructed Mond Laboratory (6) and Lise Meitner having tea at Charles Ellis's house (3).
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July 1928

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 43 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Otto Hahn giving a lecture, March 1930 (1); a party, possibly a departmental Christmas party, 1930 (1); a meeting or holiday in the mountains in Switzerland, near Rigi, including Lise Meitner, Rudolf Peierls, Walter Bothe and Irène Joliot-Curie, May 1931 (8); a gathering in Zurich, June 1931 (7); the first international conference on nuclear physics in Rome, including Niels Bohr and Marie Curie, September 1931 (7); a group of Nobel Prizewinners, including Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Max von Laue, November 1931 (1); Lise Meitner looking out of the window of her apartment in residential accommodation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, December 1931 (1); departmental outings, including Lise Meitner, Fritz Strassmann and Otto Hahn, 1931-3 (8); Lise Meitner in a group in Venice, including Walter Bothe, 1931 (1); a meeting at Bad Elster, including Lise Meitner, Walter Bothe, Robert Andrews Millikan and James Franck, 1931 (5); Lise Meitner at a window, possibly the window of the laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, 1931 (1); and Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn and Edith Hahn in a photographic montage, perhaps in the form of an atomic model, 1931 (2).
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1930–1931

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 32 black-and-white photographs and 1 original negative. Including photographs of Lise Meitner with colleagues in Königsberg, February 1932 (1); a meeting in Münster, including Lise Meitner and Ernest Rutherford, May 1932 (2); Lise Meitner on holiday in the mountains, August 1932 (2); a party, possibly a departmental Christmas party, including Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, 1932 (1); a dinner of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft in Berlin, including Lise Meitner and Fritz Haber, 1932 (1); a group in the garden of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, including Lise Meitner, James Franck and Gustav Hertz, 1932 (3); Lise Meitner at meetings and lectures at Edinburgh University, including an honorary degree ceremony, 1932 (8); a group in a laboratory, 1932 (2); Otto Hahn at a fancy dress party in Japanese costume, 1932 (2); a party, possibly a departmental party, including Otto Hahn, February 1933 (1); a poem perhaps by Lise Meitner, February 1933 (1); Lise Meitner and Max von Laue on an outing or holiday in the country, July 1933 (3); Lise Meitner with friends on a boat, July 1933 (3); and the 7th Solvay Physics Conference in Brussels, including Lise Meitner and many other distinguished scientists, October 1933 (3).
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1932–1933

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 30 black-and-white photographs. Photographs of meetings in Copenhagen, including Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch, Otto Stern, Niels Bohr, James Franck, Wolfgang Pauli, Emilio Segrè and Werner Heisenberg. Also with a studio photograph of Lise Meitner and Niels and Margrethe Bohr, undated.
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1932–1937

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 38 black-and-white photographs and 2 original negatives. Including photographs of Lise Meitner in the country, April 1934 (2); a party, possibly a departmental party, February 1935 (2); Lise Meitner on holiday in San Vigilio di Marebbe, with Erwin and Nelly Planck, 1935 (12); a group of laboratory staff, including Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, 1935 (1); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in the garden at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, 1936 (1); a group in fancy dress at a party, possibly a departmental party, including Lise Meitner's assistant, Max Delbrück, 1936 (1); Lise Meitner in a garden with Otto and Edith Hahn and the Pringsheim family, 1937 (2); Lise Meitner in a garden, 1937 (2); Otto Hahn in Stockholm (more probably Copenhagen), April 1938 (1); Niels and Margrethe Bohr at their summer house in Tisvilde, August 1938 (3); Lise Meitner and Eva von Bahr-Bergius at her house in Kungälv, August 1938 (5); Otto Hahn and Max von Laue, 1938 (2); a dinner to celebrate Otto Hahn's 60th birthday, March 1939 (1); the Nobel Prize presentation in the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall, December 1939 (2); a departmental photograph, including Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, undated (1); and Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn at a conference in Berlin, undated (2).
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1934–1939

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 55 black-and-white photographs, 4 original negatives and 1 glass plate negative. Photographs of Lise Meitner on holiday with Otto and Edith Hahn and the Volmer family in northern Italy, including Venice, Verona, the Italian lakes and Bolzano. Also with some photographs of Germany, perhaps from this holiday or from another holiday with the Volmers.
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1936

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 26 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Lise Meitner with the Lundberg family and Ilse Gordon at Alster, June 1941 (4); Lise Meitner in Orsa, July 1941 (1); Lise Meitner with Niels Bohr and family in their home in Copenhagen after their return from exile, October 1945 (1); Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch in New York, January 1946 (1); Lise Meitner in a laboratory or lecture theatre in Washington, May 1946 (1); Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch with James Franck and family in the United States, 1946 (16); Lise Meitner in Pittsburgh, 1946 (1); and Lise Meitner at a railway station, undated (1).
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1941–1946

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 29 black-and-white photographs. Photographs of a meeting in Cambridge, including Lise Meitner, James Chadwick, Wolfgang Pauli, Rudolph Peierls, Erwin Schrödinger and Enrico Fermi.
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1946

Photographs of Lise Meitner with others. Comprising 39 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Lise Meitner with friends in Kottby, May 1947 (1); a conference, possibly in Copenhagen, including Lise Meitner, Niels Bohr, Otto Frisch, Rudolph Peierls and Wolfgang Pauli, September 1947 (2); Lise Meitner with Irène Joliot-Curie at the commemoration in Paris of the 10th anniversary of Ernest Rutherford's death, November 1947 (1); the 8th Solvay Physics Conference in Brussels, including Lise Meitner, Niels Bohr, Rudolf Peierls, Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer, 1948 (2); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn receiving the Max Planck Medal of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in Bonn, with Max von Laue and Theodor Heuss, September 1949 (32); and Lise Meitner at a conference in Basel, September 1949 (1).
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1947–1949

Photographs of Lise Meitner with others. Comprising 31 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Lise Meitner on holiday in the mountains with friends, August 1950 (1); the Nobel Banquet in the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall, on the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Foundation, December 1950 (1); Lise Meitner at a Luciafeier in Sweden, December 1950 (2); a meeting in Oxford, 1950 (4); a Nobel Banquet in the Golden Hall of Stockholm City Hall, December 1951 (1); Lise Meitner on holiday in Alpbach with Erwin Schrödinger and friends, 1952 and 1954 (14); Lise Meitner in Vienna, March 1953 (3); Lise Meitner at a meeting in Hamburg, July 1953 (4); and Lise Meitner with Werner Kroebel in Kiel, March 1954 (1).
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1950–1954

Photographs of Lise Meitner with others. Comprising 42 black-and-white photographs and 1 colour photograph. Including photographs of Otto Hahn with Thomas Kuhn, July 1955 (1); Lise Meitner on holiday in the mountains near Sassal Mason with friends, July 1955 (3); Lise Meitner receiving the Otto Hahn Prize, September 1955 (2); Lise Meitner at a Luciafeier in Sweden, December 1955 (7); Lise Meitner with Professor Haberlandt, 1955 (2); Lise Meitner at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz (successor to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem), with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, July 1956 (7); Lise Meitner receiving an honorary degree in Berlin, possibly from the Free University of Berlin, 1956 (5); Lise Meitner with Nelly Planck in Cologne, 1957 (11); and humourous photographs of Lise Meitner and friends, undated (5). Also with a press cutting about Lise Meitner receiving the German Order of Merit in Bonn, 1957.
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1955–1957

Photographs of Lise Meitner with others. Comprising 38 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Lise Meitner at the celebration in Berlin of the centenary of Max Planck's birth, with Otto Hahn, Gustav Hertz, Max von Laue and Elisabeth and Gertrud Schiemann, April 1958 (10); Lise Meitner and James Franck in Staufen, May 1958 (1); Lise Meitner at the 2nd United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva, with Fritz Strassmann and Isidor Rabi, September 1958 (3); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn at the opening of the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin-Wannsee, March 1959 (3); Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn and Elisabeth Schiemann at the handing over of the directorship of the Max Planck Gesellschaft in Berlin, March 1959 (3); Lise Meitner talking to students at Bryn Mawr College, April or May 1959 (4); Lise Meitner being interviewed for television in New York, April or May 1959 (1); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn at a public event in Gottingen, with Fritz Strassmann, Max von Laue and Theodor Heuss, 1959 (7); Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in a lecture theatre, undated (3); Lise Meitner in Leipzieg, undated (1); Lise Meitner at Frankfurt airport, undated (1); and Lise Meitner sitting down, smoking and reading a letter, undated (1).
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1958–1959

Photographs of Lise Meitner with others. Comprising 25 black-and-white photographs and 3 colour photographs. Including photographs of Lise Meitner in a garden with Nelly Planck and friends, June 1961 (4); Lise Meitner on holiday with Nelly Planck and friends, 1961 (2); Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn at the 12th Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners in Lindau, with James Franck, Werner Heisenberg, Isidor Rabi, Niels Bohr and Max Born, June 1962 (19); and Lise Meitner at an unidentified official occasion, undated [1962] (3).
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1961–1962

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others. Comprising 51 black-and-white photographs and 3 colour photographs. Including photographs of a Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Cambridge, including Isidor Rabi and Rudolf Peierls, 1962 (23); Lise Meitner at Vienna-Schwechat airport, with Sigvard Eklund, perhaps on the occasion of her speech, "Memories of Fifty Years in Physics", at the Urania Volksbildungsanstalt in Vienna, October 1963 (4); Lise Meitner at a formal occasion, possibly a lecture and a lunch, with Werner Heisenberg and Hilde Levi, 1963 (2); participants at a conference, including Max Delbrück and Isidor Rabi, 1963 (8); Lise Meitner sitting in an armchair, 1963 (1); Lise Meitner at lunch on the terrace of a house with a young friend, October 1964 (2); Lise Meitner with friends, possibly the Gruneisen family, in Marburg, 1964 (5); Lise Meitner, 1964 (1); Lise Meitner with friends in a garden, standing in front of a cherry and a magnolia tree, undated (3); and Lise Meitner sitting in a chair and looking at photographic slides, undated (5).
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1962–1964