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Catalogue description Papers of Professor Richard Whiddington, C.B.E., F.R.S. (1885 - 1970)
This record is held by Leeds University Library, Special Collections
| Reference: | MS 334 |
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| Title: | Papers of Professor Richard Whiddington, C.B.E., F.R.S. (1885 - 1970) |
| Description: |
Professor Whiddington discarded most of his papers on his move to Norfolk following his retirement from the University of Leeds in 1951. The material received from his widow Mrs. Katherine Whiddington consists largely of manuscript notes for lectures - those which Professor Whiddington delivered at Leeds, as well as those he attended as an undergraduate at Cambridge (see Items 3 - 6 for notes on lectures by G.F.C. Searle and C.T.R. Wilson). The only correspondence which remains is that pertaining to Science at War and to Whiddington's memoir of J. W. Ryde for the Royal Society. |
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Listed by: Harriot Weiskittel |
| Date: | 1907 - 1963 |
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A complete set of Professor Whiddington's offprints was deposited in the Library of the Royal Society, as was the set of J.W. Ryde's offprints which was found in the collection (Item 44). Two theses were returned - one to the University of Durham and one to Queen's University, Belfast. I. Biographical 1 - 2 II. Cambridge notebooks 3 - 10 III. Laboratory notebooks 11 - 13 IV. Lectures and experiments 14 - 32 V. War work 33 - 34 VI. Publications 35 - 45 VII. Leeds University 46 - 48 VIII. Index to principal correspondents |
| Held by: | Leeds University Library, Special Collections, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Not Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 48 files |
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Deposited in 1974 |
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Summary of the career of Professor Whiddington 1885 Born in London 1905 Entered St. John's College, Cambridge 1911 D.Sc. London 1911 - 19 Fellow of St. John's College 1914 - 19 Radio Telegraphy and Telephony Research and Design, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough 1919 Married Katherine Reoch Grant 1919 - 51 Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Leeds 1925 - 48 Hon. Editor, Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Proceedings 1926 Fellow of the Royal Society 1940 - 42 Department of Scientific Research, Admiralty 1942 - 45 Deputy Director Scientific Research, Ministry of Supply 1946 C.B.E. 1949 - 51 Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds 1952 - 54 President, the Physical Society 1959 - 62 Scientific Advisor to Central Treaty Organisation |
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