Paneth Lantern Slides

Lantern slides and negatives of items in the F.A. Paneth (East Prussian) Amber Collection deposited in the University of Durham's Dept of Geology. The collection of amber specimens, artifacts, and creatures entombed in amber, to which these slides and negatives relate was formed by Professor Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887-1958), Prof. of Chemistry in the University of Durham 1939-53. His fascination with amber began when he occupied the chair of chemistry at Königsberg in East Prussia between 1929 and 1933.

Friedrich Adolf (Fritz) Paneth (1887-1958): educated at the Universities of Vienna, Munich and Glasgow; Professor and Director of Chemical Laboratories, Königsberg University, 1929-1933; left Germany because of political developments there; Reader in Atomic Chemistry, University of London, 1939; Professor of Chemistry, University of Durham, 1939-1953; Head of Chemistry Division, Joint British-Canadian Atomic Energy Team, 1943-1945; Director Max-Planck-Institut für Chimie, 1953-1958; F.R.S. 1947.

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Deposited by Miss Eva Paneth, daughter of Prof. Paneth, in 1986, in association with the deposit of the amber collection itself in the Dept of Geology.

The slides and negatives are not themselves listed, but a list of the contents of the collection of amber to which they relate appears in G.A.L. Johnson and D.L. Schofield, The F.A. Paneth Collection of East Prussian Amber, Geological Curator, vol.5 no.6 (1991), 219-224.

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