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

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Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon to Edward Appleton, dated 1954. The material consists of correspondence and data on various research problems.

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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.

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Correspondence from W.J.G. Beyon, dated 1947 W.R.Piggott, dated 1948 and A.F. Wilkins, dated 1949 with Edward Appleton. The material is all contained in their original binder.

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Correspondence to Edward Appleton from H.V. Griffiths (B.B.C.), W.J.G. Beynon, H.S.W. Massey, A.C.B. Lovell and M. Allan. The material relates to the Russian satellite, Sputnik and is dated October 1957­-November 1957. It Includes 1 page of manuscript notes by Appleton, perhaps for a lecture on the subject.

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Data and notes from A.J. Lyon, referring to Beynon's research and results. The material includes various narratives on ‘The Beynon anomaly', no date c. September 1955.

Scope and Contents 'Extra-tropospheric influences in ultra-short-wave radar operation'. The material relates to a paper presented by Edward Appleton at the Institution of Electrical Engineers Radar convention, 27 March 1946, and published in Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 93. It contains drafts, comments and correspondence; a 12 page typescript draft; a 10 page typescript ‘Lecture version' of the paper; and correspondence on the draft, with comments and...

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List of participants, copies of papers read and reports presented on ionospheric research at the Brussels meeting, in 1954. The material includes W.J.G. Beynon's report, papers by Edward Appleton and A.J. Lyon, etc.

Scope and Contents The material consists of drafts, data and correspondence. Most of the early material relates to the papers by Edward Appleton and K. Weekes published in various journals, 1938, 1939. The correspondence continues to 1949, some of it relating to the paper by Appleton and W.J.G. Beynon, ‘Lunar oscillations in the D-layer of the ionosphere', Nature, 164, 1949. Appleton's notes, drafts, and exchanges with his principal collaborator, K. Weekes, appear at Coll-37/C.182-C.186, correspondence with...