Skip to main content

Astronomy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and reports from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, 1946-1947

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.229
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and reports from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, dated 1946-1947. The material is mainly on the Giacobinid Shower [a meteor shower, now known as the October Draconids], and including photographs, and O.R.G. Report 342 [Army Operational Research Group].

Dates: 1946-1947

Correspondence between the British Broadcasting Corporation and Edward Appleton, 1946-1947

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.227
Scope and Contents

The material consists of correspondence between the British Broadcasting Corporation and Edward Appleton, dated 1946-1947, during the period of the Giacobinids meteor showers [now known as the October Draconids]. It includes graphs.

Dates: 1946-1947

Correspondence from A.C.B. Lovell to Edward Appleton, 1947-1948

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.232
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from A.C.B. Lovell to Edward Appleton, dated 1947-1948. The material includes reports on research by Lovell's team at Manchester, and a note by Lovell on the importance of studying meteor trails in the southern hemisphere.

Dates: 1947-1948

Correspondence from C. Hoffmeister and H. Spencer Jones to Edward Appleton, 1948 and 1945

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.231
Scope and Contents

The material consists of correspondence from C. Hoffmeister to Edward Appleton, dated 1948 and from H. Spencer Jones to Edward Appleton, dated 1945. The correspondence from Spencer Jones is possibly the 'the Astronomer Royal's letter' mentioned in Coll-37/C.226.

Dates: 1948 and 1945

Correspondence from E. Eastwood, T.L. Eckersley, and K.G. Emeléus to Edward Appleton, 1946-1948

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.228
Scope and Contents

The material consists of correspondence from E. Eastwood to Edward Appleton, dated 1946; correspondence from T. L. Eckersley to Edward Appleton, dated 1948 including a draft letter for publication in Nature; and correspondence from K.G. Emeléus to Edward Appleton, dated 1947.

Dates: 1946-1948

Correspondence from L. Schellbach to Edward Appleton, 1946

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.235
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from L. Schellbach to Edward Appleton. The material includes statements by observers of the meteoritic fall and fragment recovered at Grand Canyon, Arizona, October 1946.

Dates: 1946

Correspondence from P. Angwin to Edward Appleton, 1951

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/E.3
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from P. Angwin to Edward Appleton, dated 1951. The material includes a note on Radio Astronomy in the South Bank exhibition at the Festival of Britain.

Dates: 1951

Correspondence from T.J. van Slooten and F.L. Whipple to Edward Appleton, 1946-1947

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.236
Scope and Contents

The material consists of correspondence from T.J. van Slooten to Edward Appleton, dated 1946 and from F.L. Whipple to Edward Appleton dated 1946-1947. The correspondence from Whipple includes data.

Dates: 1946-1947

Drafts and notes, c. 1932-1946

 sub-subseries
Identifier: Coll-37/C.222-226
Scope and Contents

The material consists of 5 files containing material relating to Edward Appleton's research into meteors.

Dates: c. 1932-1946

Manuscript notes on meteors by Edward Appleton, c. 1945-1950

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.226
Scope and Contents

The material consists of manuscript notes on meteors by Edward Appleton, some of which pre-dates his 1946 work. The material includes 1 page 'Notes by EVA [Edward Victor Appleton] headed 'To be returned with the Astronomer Royal’s letter', no date and tables on 'Meteor Streams' 1947-50, by A.G. Pritchard.

Dates: c. 1945-1950