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Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

'Ionospheric Work', December 1962

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.117
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'Ionospheric Work'. 2 page typescript dated December 1962.

Dates: December 1962
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Drafts and ideas for research

'Irregularities in the ionosphere associated with solar events', c. 1949

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.411
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The material consists of note, 'Irregularities in the ionosphere associated with solar events', no date c.1949, perhaps not by Edward Appleton.

Dates: c. 1949
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Additional Material / Ionospheric Storms / Edward Appleton's notes and drafts

Items on wartime radar, c. 1939-1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.270
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Items on wartime radar. The material consists of press-cuttings on radar; photographs taken in 1944 by the R.R.D.E. [Radar Research and Development Establishment] at Beachy Head; Chart of German North Sea stations; and German report on radio technique, dated May 1940.

Dates: c. 1939-1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Radar

Jo: Keil Scheda de figura Radij in Medio difformi, 1684-1700

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [30]
Scope and Contents A logarithmic treatment of light propagating through a uniform medium. John Keill was an Edinburgh native who earned distinction under David Gregory in mathematics and natural philosophy there, and who followed him to Oxford in 1691, where, like Gregory, he made a name for himself as an enthusiastic vindicator of Sir Isaac Newton. At Balliol College he demonstrated by experiments the validity of some of the chief propositions of Newton concerning light and colour, among other things. Oddly,...
Dates: 1684-1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Large Army 'Register of Requisition' book, 1916-1918

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.58
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Large Army 'Register of Requisition' book. The book contains press­cuttings from technical journals, chiefly The Electrician, on meetings, research papers, discoveries and research. 1916-18.

Dates: 1916-1918
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks / Press-cuttings

Large ledger-type notebook, c. 1936

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.27
Scope and Contents

Large ledger-type notebook. The notebook contains notes on mathematics, some labelled 'Lecture II', etc., perhaps for lectures at Cambridge, c. 1936.

Dates: c. 1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Large ledger-type notebook, no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.29
Scope and Contents

Large ledger-type notebook, no date. The notebook mainly contains notes on atomic and particle physics, perhaps for lectures at Cambridge.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Large ledger-type notebook, inscribed on cover 'E. V. Appleton. Magneto-Ionic Theory', no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.24
Scope and Contents

Large ledger-type notebook, inscribed on cover 'E. V. Appleton. Magneto-Ionic Theory', no date. The notebook has been used for calculations and only a few pages are used. Includes a few loose pages.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Large red 'Minute Book', c. 1942

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.33A
Scope and Contents

Large red 'Minute Book'. Only a few pages of this notebook have been used, widely scattered through the book. Contains notes, mainly on radar, very short waves, anomalous echoes and the influence of water vapour, etc. c. 1942.

Dates: c. 1942
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Later papers on F2 Layer, 1959-1960

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.103
Scope and Contents Later papers on F2 Layer, dated 1959-1960. The material includes:Duplicated copy of Appleton's paper 'The relation between hm (F2) and M(3000) F2 factors', given at U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique International] meeting in Brussels, September 1959.Duplicated copy of Appleton's paper 'A New Use for N(h) Data, with a letter from J.0. Thomas, 1960.Duplicated copy of note ‘A New Theory...
Dates: 1959-1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / F layer / Data and correspondence