Beynon, William John Granville, Sir, 1914-1996 (Welsh Physicist)

The material consist of a comment on a Japanese paper on radio transmission, with diagrams, sent with a covering letter by W.G. Beynon, dated October 1940 and comments on another paper on transmission, by Beynon and Piggott, dated 1940.

Correspondence and data from W.J.G. Beynon. The material relates to Beynon’s research findings (mainly on the E layer), discussed with A.J. Lyon in Coll-37/C.142, C.144. See also Coll-37/E.16.

Correspondence between W.J.G. Beynon and Edward Appleton, dated 1949-1950. The material relates to U.R.S.I [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] and M.C.I. [Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere] affairs, publications, meetings, etc.

The material relates to U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] and M.C.I. [Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere] affairs, including Third Polar Year proposed for 1957-1958 and some research matters are discussed. There is also included a U.R.S.I. report on 'Terminology and units' with a letter from D.F. Martyn.

Correspondence between W.J.G. Beynon and Edward Appleton. The material is mainly regarding the meeting of the M.C.I. [Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere] at Canberra, August 1952, and also the membership and organisation of M.C.I.

Correspondence between W.J.G. Beynon and Edward Appleton, dated 1953. The material includes reports by Beynon on M.C.I. [Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere] meeting at Canberra in August 1952, and on the meeting on the International Geophysical Year at Brussels, July 1953, information on next meeting of the M.C.I. in Brussels, 1954, etc.

Correspondence between W.J.G. Beynon and Edward Appleton, dated 1955. The material relates to U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] and M.C.I. [Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere] affairs, organisation of I.G.Y. [International Geophysical Year] and arrangements for the meeting in the U.S.A. in 1957. It includes and offprint of an article on I.G.Y. by Appleton from The Times, 17 January.

Brief correspondence between W.J.G. Beynon and Edward Appleton, dated January 1956-March 1956.

Correspondence, data and drafts exchanged by Edward Appleton and A.J. Lyon, dated 1955. The material is similar to Coll-37/C.141 and it includes references to W.J.G. Beynon's findings (see Coll-37/C.143-C.144) and some undated notes by Appleton.

Correspondence from D.F. Martyn to Edward Appleton, dated 1946. The correspondence is mainly regarding a paper by Martyn on Solar tides, submitted to Appleton for communication to the Royal Society. The material includes comments on Martyn's paper by W.J.G. Beynon 1947, and an enthusiastic letter by S. Chapman, 1946 and Appleton's notes on papers by Martyn on atmospheric tides, given at a meeting of the Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere, 1948.