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Piggott, William Roy, 1914-2008 (Physicist and student of Sir Edward Appleton )

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Dates

  • Existence: 18 July 1914 - 20 May 2008

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

'The Morphology of Storms in the F2 Layer of the Ionosphere: II. The Study of Individual Ionospheric Storms' , 1951

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.415
Scope and Contents

'The Morphology of Storms in the F2 Layer of the Ionosphere: II. The Study of Individual Ionospheric Storms'. The material consists of a 49 page typescript draft of a collaborative paper between Edward Appleton and W.R. Piggott. It includes corrections by Piggott to a section of the draft, dated 1951.

Dates: 1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Additional Material / Ionospheric Storms / Edward Appleton's notes and drafts

Two notes by A.R. Meetham, 1942

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.3
Scope and Contents

Two notes by A.R. Meetham, 1942. The material consists of ‘Absorption and scattering of radio waves by electrons', 1 p., 13 May 1942 and ‘Absorption of radio waves by thermal motion of electrons', 2 pp. 9 July, sent with a covering letter saying, 'it is far less intuitive than my note of May 13', 10 July 1942. Also included here is a 1 page note by William Roy Piggott on 'Dr. Meetham's paper', dated 4 August 1942.

Dates: 1942
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Absorption

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