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'Atomic energy and its applications', c. 1949-1951
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Identifier: Coll-37/D.41
Scope and Contents
The material consists ofdDrafts for Edward Appleton’s chapter to the book ‘Aspects of Modern Science', published in 1951, with some editorial correspondence. It is contained in its original folder, inscribed ‘Atomic Energy'.
Dates:
c. 1949-1951
Letter from Edward Appleton to 'Edward' and two letters from Ernest Rutherford to Edward Appleton, 1922, 1925, 1962
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Identifier: Coll-37/A.5
Scope and Contents
Letter from Appleton to 'Edward' dated 1962 describing his award of The Wiltshire Prize for Geology and Mineralogy in his Cambridge Tripos in 1913.
Two letters from Ernest Rutherford to Edward Appleton. The first is dated 1922, recommending Appleton for 'The King's Professorship (N.B. Appleton became Wheatstone Professor at King's College, London, only in 1924), and the second is dated 1925, accepting his resignation as Assistant Demonstrator of the Cavendish Laboratory.
Dates:
1922, 1925, 1962
Newspaper article, 'Scotland and the Atomic Age' and 4 notes for speeches and addresses by Edward Appleton, January 1960-November 1960
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Identifier: Coll-37/D.59
Scope and Contents
The material consists of ‘Scotland and the Atomic Age', an article written for The Scotsman, January 1960, 3 pages, typescript; Dinner speech at Edinburgh University Schools Club, February 1960, 14 pages, typescript; Dinner speech for British Federation of University Women, May 1960, 15 pages, typescript; Address at Guildhall, U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale ] General Assembly, September 1960, 9 pages, typescript; and Address at Conference on Natural...
Dates:
January 1960-November 1960