BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
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). Waspersonal 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.

DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION:
School reports, lecture notes, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, clippings etc. The correspondence is ordered under the titles: Correspondance Particulière, Epistemology, History of Science, Liége (1922-40), Manchester (1947-1958), Copenhague. 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. Podalanski, Alexandre Proca, Erwin Schrödinger, Pol F. Swings, Victor Frederik Weisskopf, John Archibald Wheeler, Wolfgen Yourgrau

10metres. French, English, German

FINDING AID: Rosenfeld's own listing as a .pdf file.