Piggott, William Roy, 1914-2008 (Physicist and student of Sir Edward Appleton )
Dates
- Existence: 18 July 1914 - 20 May 2008
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Notes from lectures by W.R. Piggott, 1944
Notes on lectures, talks and scientific work by Edward Appleton and William Piggott, 25 November 1950 and no date
'Notes on oscillations in the atmosphere', by W.R. Piggott, 1952
'Notes on oscillations in the atmosphere', by W.R. Piggott, dated 1952.
Original folder inscribed, in Mrs Pritchard's hand, ‘Midnight Heights F2 Layer', c. 1953
Original folder inscribed, in Mrs Pritchard's hand, ‘Midnight Heights F2 Layer'. The material consists of Tables and charts prepared by Mrs Pritchard for various dates and stations. Also included is a letter from W.R. Piggott enclosing data, 1953.
P. Lejay: Study of the ionosphere at Shanghai, 1940
The material consists of a report P. Lejay: Study of the ionosphere at Shanghai, translated from the French in English and with comments by WJG Beynon and WR Piggott, dated 1940.
Papers relating to CX/WP 54, 1945
Papers relating to CX/WP 54.The material mainly refers to papers on 'Ionospheric Absorption Measurements' and 'Suggestions for an Absorption Programme' received by the Combined Communications Board Wave Propagation Committee and discussed at its meeting on 16 May 1945. Also Included are 4 pp. manuscript comments by William Roy Piggott on the CX/WP 54 papers, on behalf of Radio Research Board.
Reports by W.R. Piggott relating to work in the U.S.A., 1950
The material consists of reports by W.R.Piggott, dated 1950 relating to ionospheric work at various U.S. centres: Harvard, Stanford, and the Carnegie Institute.
'Storm phenomena and the solar cycle variations of the noon F2 layer ionisation', c. 1954
'Storm phenomena and the solar cycle variations of the noon F2 layer ionisation'. The material consists of a 10 page typescript draft, an early version of the paper by Appleton and Piggott published in Physics of the Ionosphere, 1954, with a manuscript note by Piggott, 'original draft replaced by now'.
‘Storms D(fF2)/Q(fF2) and O/W type curves’, c. 1935-1952
The material consists of file created by Edward Appleton entitled ‘Storms D(fF2)/Q(fF2) and O/W type curves’. It contains extensive data and graphs by William Piggott, Mrs. Pritchard and others, dated mainly 1945-1952 and it Includes a graph of sunspot cycle variation, by Piggott, dated 1935-1948.
'The application of ionospheric data to radio communication problems III', c. 1940-1947
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Physics 40
- Correspondence 15
- Absorption 4
- Radio Broadcasting 2
- Atmosphere 1