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
- Creation: 1922, 1925, 1962
Creator
- Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) (Author, Person)
- Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, 1871-1937 (New Zealand Physicist) (Author, Person)
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Full Extent
3 letters
Language of Materials
English
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Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk