Family Papers, Student Papers, and Photographs

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The Family Papers include a few items dealing with Paul Dirac's father's family in Switzerland, but the majority deal with his parents and their families, his brother and sister, his wife and their children, and his in-laws (including his brother-in-law, Eugene P. Wigner, who also won the Nobel Prize in Physics). The Family Papers include a few examples of juvenalia, but mainly consist of materials associated with his student days at the Bishop Road primary school, the Merchant Venturers' secondary school, the University of Bristol (1918-1921), and at St. John's College at Cambridge University (from 1921 through the awarding of his doctorate in 1926). These are arranged in acid-free folders and Hollinger boxes, generally by topic and then in chronological order. About 450 photographs and reprints (and a few negatives) from all periods of Dirac's life are also included in this segment, each of them in acetate sleeves or in four presentation albums. There are few personal financial records in the Collection, here or elsewhere.

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