AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AUCTION

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: A rare original United States of America war department diploma, one page, oblong 4to, Washington D.C., 6th August 1945. The ...

[FERMI ENRICO]: (1901-1954) Italian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1938. Regarded as the 'architect of the atom bomb', F...

BOHR NIELS: (1885-1962) Danish physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1922. A member of the Manhattan Project, Bohr was credited as being 'a s...

EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. A very fine letter, dated the day before the...

MEITNER LISE: (1878-1968) Austrian-Swedish physicist who, with her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, discovered nuclear fission in 1938. Meitner declined...

FRISCH OTTO ROBERT: (1904-1979) Austrian Physicist. Designer of the first mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb. A key figure in the firs...

PEIERLS RUDOLF: (1907-1995) German-born British Physicist. Peierls played a major role in the Manhattan Project. His co-authored 1940 memorandum w...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: ROSSI BRUNO (1905-1993) Italian experimental physicist who worked on radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War I...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: THOMAS CHARLES ALLEN (1900-1982) American chemist, an important figure in the Manhattan Project during World War II, coordina...

BRADBURY NORRIS EDWIN: (1909-1997) American Physicist and Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory 1945-70. Bradbury succeeded Oppenheimer w...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: KERST DONALD WILLIAM (1911-1993) American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during W...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: CREUTZ EDWARD (1913-2009) American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los ...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: WILSON ROBERT R. (1914-2000) American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: ULAM STANISLAW (1909-1984) Polish-American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics. Ulam participated in t...

TELLER EDWARD: (1908-2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist, known as 'the father of the Hydrogen bomb'. An important member of the Manhattan ...

‘In fact……the first B-29 ever to appear at Wright Field was the one for the Manhattan District project’   RAMSEY NORMAN: (1915-2011) American phy...

TIBBETS PAUL: (1915-2007) American Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic ...

TIBBETS PAUL: (1915-2007) American Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic ...

CARON GEORGE: (1919-1995) American pilot, Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay during the historic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, 6th August 1945. Book sign...

ENOLA GAY: A multiple signed colour 24 x 18 print by three crew members of the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft which drop...

ENOLA GAY: Signed 10 x 8 photograph by two crew members of the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft which dropped an atomic bo...

[HIROSHIMA]: HAMAI SHINZO (1905-1968) Japanese official who was the first popularly elected Mayor of Hiroshima, serving from 1947-55 and 1959-67. ...

GROVES LESLIE R.: (1896-1970) American Lieutenant General with the United States Army Corps of Engineers who directed the Manhattan Project during...

BUSH VANNEVAR: (1890-1974) American engineer and inventor, chairman of the United States Office of Scientific Research and Development during Worl...

CHADWICK JAMES: (1891-1974) British physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1935. Chadwick was head of the British team that worked on the Manh...

PENNEY WILLIAM: (1909-1991)Baron Penney. English Mathematician. Penney was at the head of the British delegation working in the Manhattan Project,...

PENNEY WILLIAM G.: (1909-1991) English mathematician and physicist who, as part of the British mission, became a group leader within the Manhattan...

A month after the bombing of Hiroshima, Conant writes – ‘The bomb was indeed better than some of us had anticipated…..’  CONANT JAMES B.: (1893-19...

OPPENHEIMER J. ROBERT: (1904-1967) American theoretical physicist, often credited as 'the father of the atomic bomb', The director of the Manhatta...

Oppenheimer, ‘father of the atomic bomb’, gives his most evocative and accurate assessment ever of the evolution of nuclear weapons, illustrating ...