Correspondence and papers regarding Appleton's proposals for post-graduate research at Edinburgh, April-September 1949
Scope and Contents
This file contains correspondence and papers regarding Appleton's proposals for post-graduate research at Edinburgh, including:
- Appleton's 'Proposal for the institution of a post-graduate radio-physics research group in Edinburgh University. 4 pp., typescript, April 1949;
Letter from N. Feather to Sir Edward Appleton, dated April 1949. The letter is regarding a proposal.
Typescript note, 'Developments in electrical engineering', 1 page, dated June 1949. The note is not signed.
'Report on the development of a post-graduate school in electronics and communications in the University of Edinburgh', by W.E.J. Farvis, 3 pp. The material consists of a typescript document and plans, dated June 1949.
Letter from W. Jackson to Sir Edward Appleton, dated June 1949. The material relates to similar post-graduate electronics research work to University of Edinburgh at Imperial College London.
Report on Imperial College school, by W.E.J. Farvis, dated September 1949.
Dates
- Creation: April-September 1949
Creator
- Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) (Author, Person)
- Farvis, William Ewart John , 1911-2005 (English born pioneering electronics engineer and educator, professor of electrical engineering, University of Edinburgh) (Author, Person)
- Jackson, Willis, Baron Jackson of Burnley, 1904-1970 (British technologist and electrical engineer ) (Author, Person)
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Language of Materials
English
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