| Description | J.1-J.228. General Scientific Correspondence, 1946-1987
J.1, J.2. Ashbee, K.H.G. 1971-84
Ashbee was a colleague in the Bristol Physics Department. He and Frank were jointly responsible for the invention of the "nitinol" heat engine. The material in J.2 concerns the invention and patenting of this device. For photograph of Frank and Ashbee with their engine see A.97.
J.1. 1971-84.
J.2. 1975-83.
J.3. Atkinson, R.H. 1969-71
Slip traces in a-brass.
J.4. Bartley, D.L. 1976-77
Chiefly re Bartley's paper on "Reconstructed ledges and roughening transition at ice-vapor surfaces".
J.5-J.7. Bassett, D.C. 1960-83
Bassett was a Courtauld Scholar in the Bristol Physics Department 1960-61 and held a postdoctoral research post 1961-62.
Research, appointments.
J.5. 1960, 1963, 1970.
J.6. 1975, 1976.
J.7. 1981-83.
J.8. Beaumont, P.W.R. 1971, 1973
J.9. Beevers, J.A. 1973
Models of snow crystals,
J.10. Bilby, B.A. 1955, 1957, 1982
1982 correspondence is re J.D. Eshelby Memorial Fund and Bilby's Royal Society memoir of Eshelby.
J.11. Blackman, M. 1975, 1976, 1983
J.12-J.14. Braun, E. ?1984
"First draft" of Braun's chapter "Mechanical properties of solids" sent to Frank for comments.
3 folders.
J.15. Buckingham, A.D. 1976-78
Isotropic segregation effects.
J.16, J.17. Bunn, C.W. 1961
Draft of Bunn's paper on melting points sent to Frank for comments. 2 folders.
J.18. Burch, C.R. 1960-83, nd.
J.19-J.21. Cabrera, N. 1970-82
J.19. 1970-71. Proposed visit to UK.
J.20. 1974-76. Proposed visit to UK.
J.21. 1981-82. "Celebration" of 1951 paper by Frank, Cabrera and W.K. Burton "The growth of crystals and the equilibrium structure of their surfaces" (Bibliog. 30) during British Association of Crystal Growth meeting, September 1981.
J.22. Cahn, J.W. 1982-85
1982 correspondence is re Cahn's paper "Transitions and phase equilibria anong grain boundary structures".
J.23. Candler, C. 1952-53
Spectrographic analysis of diamond dust.
J.24. Chandrasekhar, S. 1981, 1983
Visits to Bristol.
J.25-J.27. Cherian, K.A. 1977-85
J.25. 1977-79. Chiefly re overgrowths on diamond.
J.26. 1980. Metastable growth of diamond at low pressure.
J.27. 1981, 1985. 1981 material is re Cherian's paper "Crystallization of diamond at atmospheric pressure".
J.28-J.30. Cladis, P.E. 1974-83
J.28. 1974, 1976.
J.29. 1981-82.
Chiefly re cholesteric blue phases.
J.30. 1983.
J.31. Davies, M. 1983-84
Chiefly re Davies's tribute to P. Debye published in Phys. Bull. 35 (1984).
J.32. Decker, P. 1973
Crystal growth.
J.33. De Gennes, P.G. 1972-77
1977 material is letter to Frank from De Gennes_entitled “Difference between random walk probabilities and statistical weights for ideal chains near a wall", with drafts of Frank's reply and manuscript notes and calculations.
J.34. Dew-Hughes, D. 1963
Visit to Bristol to discuss superconductivity.
J.35, J.36. DiMarzio, E.A. 1979
2 folders.
J.37. Domb, C. 1975, 1977
1975 material is re paper "Cluster shapes in lattice gases and percolation" by Domb et al.
J.38. re Eades, J.A. 1973
J.39. Eisner, E. 1967
J.40-J.44. Elton, Margaret Ann, Lady, and others. 1972-76
Correspondence and papers re the future of the Sir Arthur Elton Collection of historical material on the Industrial Revolution. After Sir Arthur Elton's death in 1973 the Treasury accepted the Collection in lieu of death duties. It is now held by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum.
J.40. 1972, 1973.
J.41. 1974, 1975.
J.42. 1976.
J.43. Obituaries 1973,
J.44. Background material.
J.45-J.49. Eshelby, J.D. 1960-79, nd.
J.45 1960. Comments on paper by J.P. Hirth and J. Lothe (Phys. Rev. 115).
J.46. 1965, 1966.
J.47. 1968.
J.48. 1970-79.
J.49. Nd.
J.50, J.51. Evans, T. 1962-81
Evans studied for his B.Sc. and Ph.D. at Bristol University.
J.50. 1962, 1975.
J.51. 1981. Includes Frank's comments on Evans and Z. Qi's paper "The kinetics of the aggregation of nitrogen atoms in diamond".
J.52. Evison, F.F. 1965-66
Earthquake sources.
J.53-J.55. Fisher, J.C. 1960-82.
J.53. 1960-73. Includes calculation of relative fuel consumption per passenger-mile of Concorde and the Queen Mary.
J.54. 1975-76. Includes correspondence re Fisher's paper "Elementary particle model based on a non linear 8-component Fermion field.
J.55. 1980-82.
J.56. Flory, P.J. 1962
re Flory's paper "On the morphology of crystalline state in polymers".
J.57-3.59. Forty, A.J. 1953-83
Forty was Frank's first research student at Bristol.
J.57. 1953. Includes draft of Forty's paper "Some evidence for the existence of dislocations in crystals" with Frank's comments.
J.58. 1964-65.
J.59. 1982-83.
J.60. Freeman, G.P. 1952
Slip-bands in diamond.
J.61-J.64. Friedel, J. 1972-80
J.61. 1972-75, 1980. 1975 correspondence is re surface diffusion on ice.
J.62-J.64. 1977. Drafts of papers on dislocations by Friedel with comments by Frank and M. Kléman. 3 folders.
J.65. Geach, G.A. 1949
Furrow structure on aluminium.
J.66. Gibbs, D.F. 1973-81
1980-81 correspondence is re Physics Teachers' Forum.
J.67, J.68. Giess, E.A. 1980-83
J.67. 1980-81. 1981 correspondence is re paper by Giess et al "Gadolinium gallium garnet liquid phase epitaxy and the physical chemistry of garnet molten solutions".
J.68. 1982-83. Giess. Chiefly re paper by K. Watanabe and
J.69. Goulty, N.R. 1975, 1977
Chiefly re Goulty and R. Gilman's paper "Repeated creep events on the San Andreas fault near Parkfield, California recorded by a strainmeter array".
J.70. Gray, D.G. 1976
Hydroxypropyl cellulose aqueous mesophase.
J.71. Griffin, G.J.L. 1970
Patents law, motion of ellipsoidal particles in viscous fluid.
J.72. Hallett, J. 1975, 1980
J.73. Hart, M. 1968-84
J.74-J.84. Hesketh, R.V. 1966-83
Hesketh worked at the CEGB's Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories until 1983. He was Visiting Lecturer in Bristol Physics Department 1966-70. Most of the correspondence 1969-77 concerns Hesketh's study of thermodynamics and in particular his claim that he had shown "we can link thermodynamic equilibrium rigorously to the linear region of disequilibrium, and this in turn quantitatively to the non-linear region of disequilibrium".
J.74. 1966-69
J.75. 1970
J.76. 1971 (1)
J.77. 1971 (2)
J.78. 1973
J.79. 1974 (1)
J.80. 1974 (2)
J.81. 1975
J.82. 1976 (1)
J.83. 1976 (2), 1977
J.84. 1979, 1981, 1983
J.85. Hodgkin, D.M.C. 1958, 1976
1976 correspondence is re the "Merton Calculators".
J.86-J.88. Hoffman, J.D. 1959-86
J.86. 1959, 1960, 1962. Polymer crystals, spherulitic growth.
J.87. 1975, 1976, 1979, 1979 correspondence is re fibrils formed by flow-induced crystallisation.
J.88. 1981-86,
J.89. Holland, W.P. 1980, 1984
1984 correspondence is re "eutectic" phase in liquid (or "fluid") crystals.
J.90-J.92. Holt, D.B. 1965-80
J.90. 1965, 1968. 1968 material is draft of Holt's paper "Antiphase boundaries in semiconducting compounds" with Frank's comments.
J.91. 1974-75.
J.92. 1980. Draft of Holt's paper "Polarity reversal and symmetry in the sphalerite structure" with Frank's comments,
J.93. Hoyle, F. 1947
Hydrogen-helium ratio in stars.
J.94. James, A.N. 1977-79
Crystal growth pressures.
J.95-J.122. Jones, R.V. 1949-84
Jones was a contemporary of Frank's at Oxford, graduating in 1932. They became close friends as postgraduates while Jones was studying infra-red radiation.
At the outbreak of war Jones was working in scientific intelligence for the Air Ministry. Frank joined his team, at Jones's request, in November 1940. The wartime activities of Jones and his colleagues are documented in Jones's book Most Secret War (1978).
After the war Jones was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at Aberdeen University.
The material is scientific and non-scientific correspondence and drafts sent to Frank for comment.
J.95. 1949-51, 1956, 1957, 1949 correspondence is chiefly re lithium fluoride crystals.
J.96. 1960-64. 1960 correspondence is chiefly re proposed crystal growth conference. 1961 material is re Jones's articles in The Times on "Scientists at War".
J.97. 1968-70.
J.98. 1971. Includes copies of Jones's correspondence with R.E. Peierls re momentum.
J.99. 1972.
J.100. 1973. Chiefly re Royal Society meeting on the effect of the world wars on British science.
J.101. 1974 February, May.
J.102. 1974 June - December. Includes copy of Jones's "Epilogue" to Royal Society meeting on science and the world wars (J.100).
J.103. 1975.
J.104. 1976. Includes letter of 8 October enclosing Jones's first draft of Most Secret War sent to Frank for comments, and Frank's reply of 15 November.
J.105-J.111. Draft of Most Secret War. The draft is incomplete because Jones only sent the later sections and because Frank returned those pages he had annotated. 7 folders.
J.112. Press-cutting re and reviews of Most Secret War, including Frank's.
J.113. 1977. Chiefly correspondence with D.G. Kendall re "number problem" first put to Kendall by Jones in 1975.
J.114. 1978. Includes copy of tribute to Jones by N.E. Butcher,
J.115. 1979. Includes copy of tribute to Jones by L.R.B. Elton.
J.116. 1980. Includes letter of 21 August enclosing Jones's "draft of the bulk of the paper on technology and conflict" sent to Frank for comments, and Frank's reply of 11 September.
J.117,J.118 Draft of "Some impacts of new technology on conflict". 2 folders.
J.119. 1981-83.
J.120. 1984 March-June. Chiefly correspondence with Jones and P.L. Rose, a historian of science, re the German attempts to harness atomic power during the Second World War.
J.121. 1984 November. Draft of "Heisenberg, German morality and the atomic boab 1939-1945" by Rose.
J.122. Nd. Includes untitled draft by Jones beginning "The devices of Archimedes in the defence of Syracuse gave an earnest of what would happen in warfare as scientific knowledge expanded".
J. 123. Kay, H.F. 1964-69
J.124. Keith, H.D. 1976-83
J.125, J.126. Keller, A. 1960-83, nd.
Keller was a colleague in the Bristol Physics Department.
J.125. 1960, 1965, 1970. 1970 material is copy of Keller's inaugural lecture as Research Professor in Polymer Science.
J.126. 1974-77, 1983, nd. 1974 material is research proposal; 1976 correspondence with Keller and D.S. Oliver re discussion on fibre reinforced plastics; 1977 correspondence chiefly re research on elongational flow.
J.127. Kelly, A. 1969-72
Includes draft of Kelly's paper "The core of the earth - a conjecture", with Frank's comments.
J.128. Kern, R. 1968-71
J.129-J.143. King, G.C.P., and others 1970-81
King applied for Royal Society Paul Instrument Fund grants for 1970-72 for the construction of a wire strain gauge, and 1975 81 for building geophysical tiltmeters. Frank on both occasions consented to act as assessor.
J.129. 1970
J.130. 1971
J.131. 1972 (1)
J.132. 1972 (2)
J.133. 1974, 1975
J.134. 1976
J.135. 1977 (1)
J.136. 1977 (2)
J.137. 1977 (3)
J.138. 1978
J.139. 1979 (1)
J.140. 1979 (2)
J.141. 1979 (3)
J.142. 1980
J.143. 1981
J.144, J.145. Kléman, M. 1975-85
J.144. 1975-78.
J.145. 1979-85. Includes 1983-84 material re Kléman and P. Oswald's paper "Experimental evidence for helical instabilities of screw dislocation lines in Sm A phases".
J.146. Knight, C.A. 1971-80
J.147, J.148. Landauer, R. 1978, 1980-81
J.147. 1978. Notes on overdamped soliton motion etc. by Landauer.
J.148. 1980-81. Solitons.
J.149-J.153. Lang, A.R. 1962-87, nd.
Lang was a colleague in the Bristol Physics Department.
J.149. 1962-65. 1965 material is Frank's comments on Lang and H.H. Schlössin's paper "A study of repeated twinning, lattice imperfections and impurity distribution in amethyst".
J.150. 1966-68. Letter of 10 October 1967 is re proposed research on crystals.
J.151. 1977, 1979, 1983
J.152. 1987. Cold fusion. Includes copy of Lang's letter to The Times drawing attention to Frank's 1947 article in Nature (Bibliog. 13) which first introduced the idea of meson-catalysed fusion. With a photocopy of the article and other background material.
J.153. Nd.
J.155-J.157. Lawn, B.R. 1966-80
Lawn was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Bristol Physics Department 1963-66,
J.155. 1966. Lawn's paper "Hertzian fracture in single crystals, with special reference to diamond".
J.156. 1967-73.
J.157. 1975, 1980.
J.158. re Levich, V.G. 1972
Soviet Academician Levich was expelled from his Chair at Moscow University for seeking permission to emigrate to Israel. The material relates to the campaign in the West on his behalf in which Frank was involved.
J.159. Lewis, B. 1971-72
Chiefly re nucleation theory.
J.160. Lothe, J. 1958-59
J.161. McGregor, A.G. 1967
J.162, J.163. Mackley, M.R. 1976-83
J.162. 1976. Includes Mackley and M.V. Berry's paper "The six-roll mill: unfolding an unstable persistently extensional flow" with Frank's brief comments.
J.163. 1977-83. 1982-83 correspondence re disclination loops.
J.164. Mevrel, R. 1974-75
J.165. Meyer, R.B. 1968-77
1968 material re Meyer's paper "Effects of electric and magnetic fields on the structure of cholesteric liquid crystals".
J.166. Miles, M.J. 1981
Material on slackness elements and calculation of velocity profiles sent to Frank by Miles, retained in original envelopes.
J.167. Mitchell, J.W. ?1951
Mitchell was a colleague in the Bristol Physics Department.
Duplicated typescript papers by Mitchell.
J.168. Moore, A.M. 1969, 1972, 1974
Moore studied for his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at Bristol.
J.169-J.172. Mott, N.F. 1946-83, nd.
Mott was Professor of Theoretical Physics at Bristol when Frank joined the Physics Department in 1946 and held the H.O. Wills Chair of Physics 1948-54. In 1954 he was appointed Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge.
J.169. 1946, 1948-50. Much of the early correspondence is letters received by Mott and passed on to Frank.
J.170. 1950. Translations from Soviet periodicals dealing with the relationship between science and the Soviet State, sent to Mott by the Foreign Office and passed on to Frank.
J.171. ?1952, 1954-56.
J.172. 1966, 1983, nd.
J.173. Munk, W.H. 1981
J.174-J.176. Nabarro, F.R.N. 1949-87
Nabarro was Royal Society Warren Research Fellow in the Bristol Physics Department from 1945. In 1949 he took up a post in the University of the Witwatersrand, returning to Bristol as Visiting Professor 1959-60.
J.174. 1949-64.
J.175. 1965-74.
J.176. 1975-87. 1975 material chiefly re proposed visit to UK.
J.177-J.180. Nicolaysen, L.O. 1980-81
Correspondence re drafts of papers by Nicolaysen on theory of the Earth's core.
4 folders.
J.181. Owen, H.G. 1976
re Owen's paper on "The expanding earth".
J.182. Pamplin, B.R. 1974-75, 1979
1974-75 correspondence re Paul Instrument Fund support for Accelerated Crucible Rotation Crystal Growth.
J.183-J.185. Pârasnis, A.S. 1969, 1980-84
Pârasnis studied for his Ph.D. at Bristol as Research Fellow 1958-59.
J.183. 1969. Growth of sodium chloride crystals from vapour.
J.184. 1980. Draft of Pârasnis and K. Rao's paper "Dislocation dipoles and charged dislocations in Magnesium Oxide" with Frank's comments.
J.185. 1981-84. Visits, research.
J.186-J.192. Parkin, D.W. 1967-81
Correspondence and papers re work submitted for publication by Parkin.
J.186. 1967, 1969, 1971-72
J.187. 1973
J.188. 1974-75
J.189. 1978 (1)
J.190. 1978 (2)
J.191. 1978 (3)
J.192. 1979-81
J.193. Pennings, A.J. 1969-71
Crystallisation phenomena.
J.194-J.198. Plumley, G.A.K. 1978-83
Theory of thermodynamics.
J.194. 1978
J.195. 1979
J.196. 1980-81
J.197. 1982
J.198. 1983
J.199. Pond, R.C. 1976-86
Research on crystals, 1976 material chiefly re coincidence boundaries.
J.200. Pound, G.M. 1956-66
J.201. re Powell, C.F. 1969, 1974, 1982
Powell won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950 and was Frank's predecessor as Director of the H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory. Powell died in 1969.
J. 202, J.203. Powers, H.E.C. 1949-81
J. 202. 1949, 1956, 1970, 1972.
J.203. 1979-81. Chiefly re Powers' paper "An alphabet of sucrose nucleation".
J.204. Pryce, M.H.L. 1949, 1956, 1961
Letter of 18 May 1956 is re diamond spikes.
J.205-J.207. Puttick, K.E. 1966-79
Puttick held the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers' Research Fellowship at Bristol 1954-57.
J.205. 1966, 1969. 1969 correspondence re research project on epitaxial growth on diamond.
J.206. 1972-74. Puttick's paper "Stress and strain fields round indentations in Poly (methyl methacrylate)".
J.207. 1975, 1978-79. Polymer indentation, energy scaling of Hertzian stress fields.
J.208. Rault, J. 1975, 1977, nd.
J.209. Read, W.T. 1950-78
J.210. Richardson, M.J. 1965
Re Frank's comments on Richardson's paper "Thermodynamic properties of polyethylene single crystals".
J.211. Rossi, G. 1969
Crystal surfaces.
J.212-J.214. Sadler, D.M. 1982-87, nd.
Sadler was a colleague in the Bristol Physics Department.
J.212. 1982-84.
J.213. ?1986. Draft of Sadler's paper on the growth of two dimensional crystals" with Frank's comments.
J.214. ?1987, nd. Includes drafts of Sadler's papers "A new explanation of chain folding" and "Kinetic theories of crystallization" with Frank's comments.
J.215. Sciama, D.W. 1974.
Funds for gravitational wave detector.
J.216. Simon, F.E. 1949, 1950, 1955
J.217. Small, P.A. 1948-49
Dissociation pressure of polymethyl methacrylate.
J.218. Surek, T. 1975
Direction of growth on crystal surface.
J.219. Suzuki, T. 1956, 1959
J.220. Tabor, D. 1949, 1971, 1977, 1980
J.221. Thomas, J.M. 1973, 1975, 1976
1976 material includes draft of Thomas, S.E. Morsi and J.o. Williams's paper "Stacking sequences and partial dislocations as interpretative frameworks for solid state reactions in organic molecular crystals" sent to Frank for comment.
J.222. Tolansky, S. 1948-49
Triangular pits on diamond, inflected fringes, thin films.
J.223. Vadilo, P.S. 1961-62, 1976
1976 material includes draft of Vadilo's paper "Sculpture of diamond and its significance" sent to Frank for comment.
J.224. Wells, P.N.T. 1981
Measurement of pressure changes in the bladder. Frank suggested a means of calculation involving the measurement of the resonant frequency of a small air-bubble injected into the bladder.
J.225. Whiffen, D.H. 1981
Scientific symbols.
J.226. Wirtz, K. 1945-50, 1960
J.227. Wylie, R.G. 1949, 1959, 1969, 1977
1959 material re dissolution properties of crystal surfaces.
J.228. Young, P.H.J. 1979-82
Letter of 25 February 1981 re "The Jet Engine". |