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Correspondence from R.L. Smith-Rose to Edward Appleton, 1942, 1946-1960

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.109
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Correspondence from R.L. Smith-Rose to Edward Appleton, dated 1942, 1946-1960. The material includes a letter from Y. Rocard, dated 1949, relating to French ionospheric research, and a report by Smith-Rose on the solar eclipse, dated 1952.

Dates: 1942, 1946-1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Correspondence

Correspondence from S. Benner, F.W. Chapman and K.K. Darrow to Edward Appleton, 1927-1932

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.176
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Correspondence from; S. Benner, 1932; F.W.Chapman, 1931; and K.K. Darrow, 1932 to Edward Appleton. Enclosed with the correspondence from K.K. Darrow is a letter from L.Tonks, dated 1927.

Dates: 1927-1932
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Ionisation / Contents of bulky folder, inscribed by Edward Appleton ‘Ionised Air’

Correspondence from S. Chapman, D. Lepechinsky and N. Smith to Edward Appleton, 1950

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.366
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Correspondence from S. Chapman, D. Lepechinsky and N. Smith to Edward Appleton, dated 1950. The material consists of brief correspondence relating to U.R.S.I [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] affairs, It includes 1 page of Appleton's 'Additional Statement' as President of U.R.S.I.

Dates: 1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / U.R.S.I [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale/International Union of Radio Science]

Correspondence from S. Chapman to Edward Appleton, 1932-1950

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.26
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Correspondence from Sydney Chapman to Edward Appleton, dated 1932, 1943, 1948 and 1950. the material includes Chapman's note on 'Upper Atmospheric Nomenclature', 1950.

Dates: 1932-1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Correspondence

Correspondence from Sir Ambrose Fleming to Edward Appleton, 1942, 1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.40
Scope and Contents Correspondence from J.A. Fleming (Sir Ambrose Fleming) to Edward Appleton. The material includes an autograph letter from Fleming (then aged 92), 1942, with reminiscences of Clerk Maxwell, etc., press obituaries of Fleming, dated 1945, manuscript notes by Appleton for an obituary he was asked to prepare for St. John' s College, Cambridge, and correspondence arising, and a 36 page typescript document, 'Recollections of Sir John Ambrose Fleming' by Arthur Blok, 22 May 1945, apparently not...
Dates: 1942, 1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Correspondence

Correspondence from Sir Gordon MacMillan, W.R. Piggott and R. L. Smith-Rose to Edward Appleton, October 1949

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Identifier: Coll-37/A.27
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Correspondence from Sir Gordon H. A. MacMillan, W. R. Piggott and R. L. Smith-Rose to Sir Edward Appleton, dated October 1949. The material follows on from Coll-37/A.25 and regards the possible setting up and financing of an ionospheric laboratory in conjunction with Edinburgh research.

Dates: October 1949
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Biographical and personal / Material relating to Edinburgh University

Correspondence from T. Penney, W.R.Piggott, B.G. Pressey and G.H. Ramsden to Edward Appleton, 1943, 1946 and no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.349
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Correspondence from T. Penney to Edward Appleton, dated 1943, from W.R.Piggott to Edward Appleton, no date and from B.G. Pressey and G.H. Ramsden to Edward Appleton, dated 1946. The correspondence from Ramsden relates to 'hissing phenomenon' observations in 1941.

Dates: 1943, 1946 and no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Solar Noise / Correspondence

Correspondence from T. Shimazaki and E.K. Smith to Edward Appleton, 1957

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.108
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The material consists of correspondence from T. Shimazaki and E.K. Smith to Edward Appleton, dated 1957.

Dates: 1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Correspondence

Correspondence from T.G. Cowling to Edward Appleton, 1948, 1950

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.30
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Correspondence from T.G. Cowling to Edward Appleton, dated 1948 and 1950.

Dates: 1948, 1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Correspondence

Correspondence from the British Broadcasting Corporation to Edward Appleton, 1937-1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.331
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Correspondence between the British Broadcasting Corporation and Edward Appleton. The material consists of correspondence and data from BBC radio engineers and stations with Appleton on the 'hissing phenomenon’, dated 1942, 1945-1946 and including data from 1937-1941.

Dates: 1937-1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Solar Noise / Correspondence