Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton
Fonds — Box: MS.2300
Identifier: Coll-37
Scope and Contents
The papers, which are substantial, deal almost exclusively with Appleton's scientific work. There is little personal or private correspondence and almost no surviving material, apart from lectures, speeches and addresses, relating to his public life as scientific administrator or university principal. There are, however, a good run of diaries and engagement books and extensive folders of notes, research ideas, manuscript calculations and data from all periods of Appleton's career, as well as much additional data contributed by assistants or from observatories. The correspondence includes an extended exchange of letters with B. van der Pol, 1921-1924, on oscillations and non-linearity, and long and frequent exchanges with long-term friends and collaborators such as W.J.G. Beynon, R. Naismith and W.R. Piggott. Appleton's collection of reprints, preprints and limited circulation reports also includes some important items.
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Dates
- c 1918-1973
Creator
- Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
100 boxes
100 boxes
Arrangement
By section as follows: Biographical and personal, Scientific notebooks, Research topics, Lectures and publications, Correspondence, Charts, graphs and data, Reports and printed matter, Non-print material. Index of correspondents.
Custodial History
Received for cataloguing in 1977-1978 by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre from Lady Appleton, widow. Deposited in Edinburgh University Library in 1981.
- Title
- Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Edinburgh University Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
special.collections.library@ed.ac.uk