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

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Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon to Edward Appleton, 1950-1952. The material includes correspondence relating to Beynon’s application for D.Sc. degree at the University of Wales, and a paper by him on P', f measurements, dated June 1951. There is only one letter from 1952.

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Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon to Edward Appleton, dated 1953. The material consists of general research correspondence and it includes letters and research notes from H. Bremmer, P.M. Davidson, a draft of a paper on ionospheric scattering by Beynon and Appleton, comments on paper by G. Mc Allcock, etc.

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Correspondence from W.J.G. Beynon to Edward Appleton, dated 1954. The material consists of general research correspondence, including letters and research notes from H. Bremmer, P.M. Davidson, work on scattering, etc.

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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. 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...