Farvis, William Ewart John , 1911-2005 (English born pioneering electronics engineer and educator, professor of electrical engineering, University of Edinburgh)

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Correspondence and data by Edward Appleton and William Farvis, October 1957-December 1957. The material includes Edward Appleton's letter discussing arrangements for C.P. Bell to do 'a certain amount of computational work', and explaining research projects, and some notes by W.E.J. Farvis.

Scope and Contents This file contains correspondence and papers regarding Appleton's proposals for post-graduate research at Edinburgh, including: - Appleton's 'Proposal for the institution of a post-graduate radio-physics research group in Edinburgh University. 4 pp., typescript, April 1949; Letter from N. Feather to Sir Edward Appleton, dated April 1949. The letter is regarding a proposal. Typescript note, 'Developments in electrical engineering', 1 page, dated June 1949. The note is not...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, data and research notes, dated 1957-1959. The material consists of exchanges between Edward Appleton and C.P. Bell, who was at that time a research student working with W.E.J. Farvis in the Department of Electrical Engineers at Edinburgh. In early 1957, a serious road accident interrupted Bell's research, and during his convalescence and recovery, he assisted Appleton with data analyses and mathematical calculations for various projects, and in particular with research on...

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Includes letters and reports, covering subjects such as courses, students, research grants and appointments. Those present at meetings included Michael Meredith Swann, Sir Edmund Langley Hirst, Tom L Cottrell, Hermann Brück, Charlotte Auerbach and W Ewart J Farvis,

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Includes letters and reports, covering subjects such as courses, students, research grants and appointments. Those present at meetings included Frederick Henry Stewart, Sir Edmund Langley Hirst, Charlotte Auerbach, Tom L Cottrell, Hermann Brück and W Ewart J Farvis.

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Includes letters and reports, covering subjects such as courses, students, research grants and appointments. Those present at meetings included Sir Edmund Langley Hirst, Frederick Henry Stewart, Martin Rivers Pollock, Charles Kemball, William Hayes, Hermann Brück, W Ewart J Farvis and Conrad Hal Waddington.

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Graphs, notes, calculations, notes on the literature, on research methods by harmonic analysis, etc., in the hand of W.E.J. Farvis, no date. The material includes copies of some of Edward Appleton's letters to C.P. Bell, and 2 page paper 'Substance of EVA lecture (I.G.Y.)[International Geophysical Year]' with comments on work by Appleton and Bell.

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The material consists of letter from W. E. J. Farvis to Edward Appleton asking to repeat a course of lectures for the Diploma Course on the Ionosphere at University of Edinburgh, 1953; 2 sequences of manuscript notes by Appleton, both headed 'Lecture (1)’; ‘A note on some approximate ionospheric theorems’, a typescript and manuscript draft for a paper, however no paper of that title is listed amongst Appleton’s publications. The material is in its original folder.

Scope and Contents Papers and drafts by Edward Appleton on the E layer. The material consists of 'On Seasonal and Non-Seasonal Anomalies in the E Layer', 7 page typescript for a paper; ‘A Further Note on the E Layer Seasonal Anomaly', 3 pages of manuscript notes, dated March 1965 (These notes are reproduced in facsimile in the Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics article from 1971); notes introducing the Gifford Lecture, April 1965, 3 pages, manuscript; and ‘Some Radio...