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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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 from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, 1947

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.50
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Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, dated 1947. The material includes graphs, and a letter from A. Vrede.

Dates: 1947

Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, 1942, 1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.338
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Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, dated 1945. It includes a copy of Hey's observations on solar radiation, dated February 1942 (A.O.R.G. report 275) [Army Operational Research Group].

Dates: 1942, 1945

Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, February 1946-May 1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.339
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Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, dated February 1946-May 1946. It includes observational data for February 1946, drafts and suggestions for papers.

Dates: February 1946-May 1946

Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, August 1946-September 1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.340
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Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, dated August 1946-September 1946. The material mainly consists of drafts, data, and comments for various papers by Hey and others (not all on 'Solar Noise' - also meteor radar and galactic noise work by Hey). It includes photograph of equipment.

Dates: August 1946-September 1946

Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, 1947

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.341
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Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, dated 1947. The material consists of correspondence, comments on research, etc. It includes a survey of research and papers published on 'Galactic and Solar Noise' since 1931, prepared by Hey and others.

Dates: 1947

Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, 1948, 1951

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.342
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Correspondence from J.S. Hey to Edward Appleton, dated 1948 and 1951. The material relates to on Appleton's proposed research project at Edinburgh.

Dates: 1948, 1951

'Extra-tropospheric influences in ultra-short-wave radar operation', March 1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.326
Scope and Contents 'Extra-tropospheric influences in ultra-short-wave radar operation'. The material relates to a paper presented by Edward Appleton at the Institution of Electrical Engineers Radar convention, 27 March 1946, and published in Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 93. It contains drafts, comments and correspondence; a 12 page typescript draft; a 10 page typescript ‘Lecture version' of the paper; and correspondence on the draft, with comments and...
Dates: March 1946

Hardback notebook, inscribed on cover 'Solar noise. Galactic noise', c. 1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.37
Scope and Contents

Hardback notebook, inscribed on cover 'Solar noise. Galactic noise'. It contains notes, observations, drafts, notes for discussion and comments on others' work or papers, etc. It is related especially to work with J.S. Hey in 1946.

Dates: c. 1946

I.C.S.U. [International Council of Scientific Union] Circular and draft of paper, 'Solar Radio Noise', March 1947-April 1947

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.327
Scope and Contents This file contains an I.C.S.U. [International Council of Scientific Union] Circular, March 1947, requesting contributions to the Sixth Report on solar relationships, with a manuscript note by Edward Appleton, recipient unknown, ‘I suggest we do a joint article on solar radio noise' (this request for contributions is frequently referred to in the correspondence at Coll-37/C.329-C.353); and ‘Solar Radio Noise', a 3 page typescript draft for paper by Appleton and J.S. Hey, dated 8 April...
Dates: March 1947-April 1947