Radiation
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
File titled 'MRC Panel on Genetic Effects', 1957-1961
Item
Identifier: Coll-41/10/36
Scope and Contents
The material chiefly relates to Medical Research Council Committee meeting papers, circulars, correspondence and copies of reports.
Dates:
1957-1961
File titled 'Radiation: effects of bomb tests etc', 1956-1965
Item
Identifier: Coll-41/10/42
Scope and Contents
Contains various correspondence concerning Waddington's involvement with raising awareness of the biological effects of radiation and his involvement with the Panel on the Genetic Effects of Nuclear and Allied Radiation, including a copy of the draft report to be transmitted by the Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation to the General Assembly of the United Nations (01 October 1957).
Dates:
1956-1965
File titled 'Radiation - Hazards', 1962
Item
Identifier: Coll-41/10/43
Scope and Contents
Contains responses to the publication of a letter on the biological effects of radiation in the Daily Telegraph (17 May 1962), signed by Waddington and other biologists, titled 'Biologists' Concern Over Effects of Radiation' from C.H Waddington and others'. Also includes mounted Telegraph press cuttings from May 1962, including the 17 May article itself.
Dates:
1962
Folder of Hermann J. Muller offprints, initialled by Charlotte Auerbach, 1952-1966
File
Identifier: Coll-1255/12/1/18
Scope and Contents
Contains a mix of reprinted articles and typed copies of articles from other publications, chiefly on subjects such as radiation, the future of man and the role of science in society.
Dates:
1952-1966
Notebook titled 'Antirrhinum X-rays / 1938 / G.H. Beale', 1938
Item
Identifier: Coll-1255/5/5
Scope and Contents
Notebook contains chiefly notes relating to the results of irradiation on Antirrhinum plants.
The notebook has been written in from both ends.
The notebook has been written in from both ends.
Dates:
1938