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Correspondence from A.C.B. Lovell to Edward Appleton, dated 1947-1948. The material includes reports on research by Lovell's team at Manchester, and a note by Lovell on the importance of studying meteor trails in the southern hemisphere.

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Correspondence from A.C.B. Lovell to Edward Appleton, dated 1951, 1956 and 1958. The material includes some material on the development of Jodrell Bank radio telescope station.

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Correspondence from J. Paton to Edward Appleton, dated 1949-1953. The material mainly relates to aurorae and includes a draft or transcript of a discussion on aurorae between Appleton, Paton and A.C.B. Lovell, no date.

Scope and Contents Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon and others to Edward Appleton, dated 1954. The correspondence relates to U.R.S.I [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] and M.C.I. [Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere] affairs, and especially regarding the meeting at Brussels, August, planned Symposium on Eclipse results, International Geophysical Year arrangements, etc. It includes a paper by J. Paton on aurora 1952-1954, prepared for Rome meeting; paper by A.C.B. Lovell on radio echo research at Jodrell...

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Correspondence to Edward Appleton from H.V. Griffiths (B.B.C.), W.J.G. Beynon, H.S.W. Massey, A.C.B. Lovell and M. Allan. The material relates to the Russian satellite, Sputnik and is dated October 1957­-November 1957. It Includes 1 page of manuscript notes by Appleton, perhaps for a lecture on the subject.

Scope and Contents Interviews with: Sir William Lawrence Bragg ( 1890-1971), physicist (1 CD) Sir Harold Brewer Hartley ( 1878-1972 ), physical chemist (23 CDs) Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell ( b1913), radio astronomer, pioneer of radar and radio telescopes (3 CDs) Lord John Boyd Orr ( 1880-1971), nutritional physiologist (1 CD) Sir Frederick Stratten...