Series[UMA-SRE-20190020] PRIVATE AND PROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE OF FRITZ LOEWEAccession[1988.0020] Consolidated Papers of Fritz Philipp LoeweIdentifierUMA-ITE-2019002000079Scope and ContentFolder containing assorted professional and personal letters, most 1964-1966, including postcards, greeting cards and black bordered bereavement cards. Some letters are grouped together by correspondent name and include draft replies written by Fritz Loewe. Letters have been left in this original order, which is not strictly chronological. Names of some correspondents are illegible and some letters and cards are signed with first names only. Many letters are addressed to Loewe at the Institute of Polar Studies, Ohio State University.
Topics include: News of friends, including health and deaths; Research on the development of atomic bombs in America in World War 11, including sourcing press clippings in the Stockholm Tidningen (newspaper); Requests for information from colleagues, including on tektite in the Antarctic dredged by Discovery II; The southernmost Argentine base in the Antarctic; Pressure change cross-correlation readings; Resurvey of the Hiran sites in south Greenland; Greenland Ice Sheet; Loewe's return to Institute of Polar Studies; Institute of Polar Studies Research; Locating a geological specimen (a hollow australite from Kangaroo Island); Fritz Loewe comments on colleagues' research and publications.
Senders / Recipients include: Fritz Loewe; A. Eisner Henblink [?]; Johannes Georgi; Karin Asplund; Matthias Koglbauer; Hans Ertel, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin; K.J. Ball-Kaduri; H. Kick and Elise [last name illegible]; Raoul Despres; Brigitte Weitze; H. Crohn; M. Wells; Colin Wells, Director, Institute of Polar Studies; Netty Kahane (New Year card with sketch); "Dulli"; "Doris"; M. Barré [?]; Maja Cadeu [??]; Erich [last name illegible]; Girnus-Chefredakteur, Sinn und Form Beiträge zur Literatur; Anna Stern; [illegible] der Pflug; Paul Ramdohr [?]; C. Bull, Institute of Polar Studies, Ohio State University; Bette [?] et Albert (card); Paul Wolstedt; Elfriede Albrecht; Lotte Schreibt [?]; Ing. E. Brüche; V. Schytt, University of Stockholm; Leslie R. Groves; Mario Giovinetto, University of Wisconsin; Werner Beher and Victor Ross, "Thank-You Britain" Fund; S.v.Gnielinski, Technische Universität Berlin; B. Brockamp, Institut für Reine und Angewandte Geophysik der Universität Münster; Liselotte Kayser; V.E. Fuchs, British Antarctic Survey; Uwe Radok, University of Melbourne; Karl Weiken; J.C. Beltramino; M. Schwarzbach, Geologisches Institut Der Universität Köln; Tim Gibson, University of Melbourne; "I.A.", Niedersächsische Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen; R. Scherhag, Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik der Freien Universität Berlin; Friedrich Haase; George Baker, CSIRO; H.I. Rösler, Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre, Freiberg; Steven J. Mock, US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory; P.C. Dibben; John Houn [?], Princeton University; H. Schultze, Die Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik; Henry N. Michael, Arctic Institute of North America; H. Flohn; H.W. Georgii, Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik, Frankfurt; Der Rektor, der Freien Universität Berlin.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2019.0020 Unit 0008
Loewe, Fritz P., [Letters, 1962 & 1964-1966] (2 July 1962-1966), [UMA-ITE-2019002000079]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 01/04/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/446833
