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1 page typescript note from Edward Appleton to William Roy Piggott on F2 equinox values, 11 January 1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.71
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1 page typescript note from Edward Appleton to William Roy Piggott on F2 equinox values, signed and dated 11 January 1946.

Dates: 11 January 1946

1 page typescript note on solstice observations, 3 July 1941

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.69
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1 page typescript note on solstice observations. The note is signed and dated 3 July 1941.

Dates: 3 July 1941

2 notes by Edward Appleton for talks relating to atomic energy and scientific collaboration, c. 1946 and no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.30
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The material consists of; a notes for a talk on international control of atomic energy, c.1946; and 1 page of notes for a talk on scientific collaboration, no date.

Dates: c. 1946 and no date

2 page sequence headed 'Further Points', listing 12 points for investigation, no date, c. 1937

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.60
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2 page sequence headed 'Further Points', listing 12 points for investigation (points 1-8 are in Appleton's hand and 9-12 are in that of R. Naismith). The material contains an additional page of notes on the subject by Naismith, no date, c. 1937.

Dates: no date, c. 1937

2 page typescript outline for 2 papers on F layer, 'Paper I - Regularities' and 'Paper II - Irregularities', no date, c. 1937

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.59
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2 page typescript outline for 2 papers on F layer, 'Paper I - Regularities' and 'Paper II - Irregularities', no date, c. 1937.

Dates: no date, c. 1937

2 papers and U.R.S.I [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] Program of Meeting, 1927-1938

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.361
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The material consists of 'The existence of more than one ionized layer in the upper atmosphere'. A published version of Appleton's paper presented at U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] General Assembly, October 1927, announcing his discovery of the F layer; 'Some Observations on International Research on Atmospherics'. A typescript of Appleton's paper presented at Copenhagen meeting, 1931; and U.R.S.I Program of meeting, Washington D.C., 1938.

Dates: 1927-1938

2 papers: ‘Atmospheric Interference in Wireless Telegraph’ and 'Fading and the Heaviside layer', c. 1925-1926

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.2
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2 papers: ‘Atmospheric Interference in Wireless Telegraph’, manuscript and typescript draft for a slide lecture, no date, c. 1926; and 'Fading and the Heaviside layer', a 6 page typescript, no date, c. 1926.

Dates: c. 1925-1926

2 papers: 'Short Wave Wireless Transmission...' and 'Atmospheric Electricity and Wireless Transmission', no date and c. 1930

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.6
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2 papers: 'Short Wave Wireless Transmission. The Discovery of the Low Attenuation of Short Waves’, the first of a series of articles, 4 pages, no date; and 'Atmospheric Electricity and Wireless Transmission', an article for a B.B.C. Handbook- a galley proof, no date , c. 1930.

Dates: no date and c. 1930

2 papers: 'The Study of Wireless Signal Fading' and 'The Proof of the Existence of the Heaviside Layer', c. 1926

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.3
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2 papers: 'The Study of Wireless Signal Fading', 5 pages of manuscript, probably intended for Wireless World, no date, c.1926; and 'The Proof of the Existence of the Heaviside Layer', 6 pages of manuscript probably intended for Wireless World, also no date, c.1926.

Dates: c. 1926

2 papers: 'Wireless Telegraphy' and 'Wireless Transmission and the Upper Atmosphere', no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.4
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2 papers: 'Wireless Telegraphy', a 3 page manuscript draft of the first of 3 lecture, no date; and 'Wireless Transmission and the Upper Atmosphere', a 4 page manuscript draft, no date.

Dates: no date

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van der Pol, Balthasar, 1889-1959 (Dutch physicist) 27
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Wilkins, Arnold Fredrick, 1907-1985 (British physicist and RADAR pioneer) 4
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