Gerhart Friedlander Collection 1909-1995

This collection largely consists of material from Gerhart Friedlanders' academic career at University of California, Berkeley, as well as materials about the Friedlander family villa in Munich. Regarding Gerhart Friedlander's academic career, there is a translation of a letter from Rudi Peierls advising Gerhart Friedlander about paths of scientific study given the world situation in 1935; there are letters from the Hillel Foundation at the University of California, Berkeley granting Mr. Friedlander a study opportunity; membership certificates from math and science societies Pi M Epsilon and Sigma Xi; plans and photographs of Friedlander villa; photographs of Max Friedlander and family (circa 1925-1995). Accompanying these folder-size materials are oversized matted photographs (17cm x 11cm) showing the furnished interior of the Friedlander villa circa 1920s.digitizedGerhart Friedlaender was born in 1916 in Munich, Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1936. He was a awarded a Hillel Foundation scholarship in 1937, which allowed him to start his education, leading to a doctorate from the University of California in Berkeley. Gerhart Friedlander was a pioneer of nuclear chemistry and participated in the Manhattan project to develop the atomic bomb. In 2006 Gerhart Friedlander was an adviser to the Stories to Remember project about courts of law under Nazi rule. He died in South Setauket, NY in 2009.Processed for digitizatio