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Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

'Edinburgh Work on Ionospheric Changes and Magnetic Bays’ sent to 'Mr. Lyon for information' , March 1955

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.113
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'Edinburgh Work on Ionospheric Changes and Magnetic Bays’ sent to 'Mr. Lyon for information'. 2 page manuscript and typescript versions, dated March 1955.

Dates: March 1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Drafts and ideas for research

Edward Appleton lecturing at U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] meeting at The Hague, 1954

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Identifier: Coll-37/H.21
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The material consists of a photograph of Edward Appleton lecturing at the U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] meeting at The Hague, dated 1954.

Dates: 1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Non-print material / Photographs of Edward Appleton, colleagues and friends

Edward Appleton's contributions to the Glasgow Herald re. nuclear explosions and Speech to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, August 1959-November 1959

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.58
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The material consists of Appleton's contributions to the Glasgow Herald, on nuclear explosions, August 1959, 5 pp. typescript; and Speech to Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, November 1959, 9 pages, typescript.

Dates: August 1959-November 1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications

Edward Appleton's notes and drafts, c. 1938-1941

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.389
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Edward Appleton's notes and drafts. The material consists of a folder containing; two extensive manuscript sequences, written in pencil and in ink, on absorption, perhaps for a paper with marginal comments in the hand of W.R. Piggott, no date, c.1938-39; 'Note on the results of oblique incidence transmission', a typescript note, dated 1941; ‘A sketch of a general theory of ionospheric absorption', a manuscript note, no date, written on wartime paper; and some shorter notes.

Dates: c. 1938-1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Additional Material / Absorption / 'General Theory of Absorption' / 'Absorption R.R.B. [Radio Research Board] Report'

Edward Appleton's notes and instructions to A. G. Pritchard, November 1953-December 1953

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.137
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Edward Appleton's notes and instructions to A. G. Pritchard. The material consists of typescript notes, dated November 1953­-December 1953.

Dates: November 1953-December 1953
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Data and correspondence

Edward Appleton's own notes and calculations, mainly on seasonal variations in E Layer, c. 1958

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.160
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Edward Appleton's own notes and calculations, mainly on seasonal variations in E Layer. The material has no date but is related to and refers to work with C.P. Bell, c. 1958.

Dates: c. 1958
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Data and correspondence / Correspondence, data and research notes

Edward Appleton's own notes and diagrams, c. 1959

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.100
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Edward Appleton's own notes and diagrams. The material includes a copy of the abstract of Appleton’s paper 'The Daily Variability ... ' on the coding system employed, with a manuscript note 'For IYL [Ionospheric Young Ladies] to see, especially the coding system’.

Dates: c. 1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / F layer / Data and correspondence / Original folder labelled in the hand of A.G. Turnbull (formerly Pritchard) 'I. G. Y. fF2 Bartels Diagram' [International Geophysical Year]

Edward Appleton's own notes for papers, 'Notes regarding the Tromsö results' and correspondence from A.C. Stickland and L.J. Ingram to Appleton, 1933

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.317
Scope and Contents

The material consists of Edward Appleton's own notes for papers, 2 pages of 'Notes regarding the Tromsö results', not by Appleton and correspondence from A.C. Stickland and L.J. Ingram to Appleton. All dated 1933.

Dates: 1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Second Polar Year / Drafts, data and correspondence relating to publication of Polar Year and Tromsö work

'Effect of S and K on noon fF2', 1942-1952

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Identifier: Coll-37/F.56
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The material consists of an original folder created by Edward Appleton entitled, 'Effect of S and K on noon fF2' and containing data for Abinger and Slough, dated 1942-1952.

Dates: 1942-1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Charts, graphs, data / Sunspots

'Electrical Communication and its Indebtedness to Physics', no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.13
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'Electrical Communication and its Indebtedness to Physics'. The material consists of 2 separate versions of a lecture by Edward Appleton with this title, no date, 31 pages, and unpaginated manuscript draft.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications