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

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Correspondence from H.D. Poole to Edward Appleton, dated 1939-1940. The material includes correspondence on Poole's theories from W.J.G. Beynon, dated October 1939.

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Correspondence from J. Bartels Edward Appleton dated 1938 and W.J.G. Beynon to Edward Appleton dated 1949. The correspondence from Beynon is regarding a paper in Nature and includes data.

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Correspondence between L. d'Azambuja with Edward Appleton, dated 1947, includes a photograph dated July 1946; between W.G. Beynon and Appleton, dated 1946 and 1948; and between L.C.B. Blanchard and Appleton, dated 1945-1946, including data on the ‘hissing phenomenon’, dated 1941 and 1944.

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...

Scope and Contents Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon and others to Edward Appleton, dated 1957. The material relates to the programme and arrangements for the M.C.I. [Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere] meeting in New York, in September that year and on the general theme 'The global morphology of the ionosphere', and also on suggestions for re-organisation of the U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] Joint Commissions. It includes a typescript copy of Appleton's 'National Report to Commission...

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Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon and others to Edward Appleton, dated 1959. The material mainly regards the publication arrangements for M.C.I. [Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere] Proceedings and changes in the organisation of the U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] and the future of the Mixed Commission.

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Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon to Edward Appleton, dated 1938-1939. The material includes data, graphs and the abstract for a paper on 'The reflexion of radio waves from the ionosphere at oblique incidence'.

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The material includes two papers by Beynon: ‘Angle of Incidence' (January) and 'The application of ionospheric data to radio-communication problems', 17 pages plus 15 figures (January), etc. There is also a letter, date 9 October 1940, from G. Millington to R.L. Smith-Rose on a report by Beynon on maximum usable frequency calculations.

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Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon to Edward Appleton, dated 1941, 1944-1945. The material includes data, the outline of a research programme and comments on papers by others.

Scope and Contents Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon to Edward Appleton, dated 1947-1949. The material mainly relates to research and collaborative publications, but it includes some from the U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale]. The correspondence relates to Appleton’s and Beynon's note ‘Lunar oscillations in the D-layer’, Nature, 164, 1949, Beynon's 'Note on Focussing Effects in the horizontal plane in Oblique Incidence Transmission', 'Atmospheric Effects in Short and Medium...