Catalogue description Supplementary catalogue of papers and correspondence of SIR GORDON BRIMS BLACK McIVOR SUTHERLAND FRS (1907 - 1980)

SECTION B EARLY INFRARED RESEARCH NCUACS 17.2.90/B.93 - NCUACS 17.2.90/B.137

SECTION C THE NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY NCUACS 17.2.90/C.53 - NCUACS 17.2.90/C.58

SECTION D COMMITTEES, SOCIETIES, ORGANISATIONS NCUACS 17.2.90/D.59 - NCUACS 17.2.90/D.73

SECTION E EDUCATION AND SCIENCE POLICY NCUACS 17.2.90/E.48 - NCUACS 17.2.90/E.84

SECTION F VISITS AND CONFERENCES NCUACS 17.2.90/F.49 - NCUACS 17.2.90/F.58

SECTION G DRAFTS, LECTURES, PUBLICATIONS NCUACS 17.2.90/G.66 - NCUACS 17.2.90/G.69

SECTION H GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE NCUACS 17.2.90/H.46 - NCUACS 17.2.90/H.48

INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS

The collection is presented in the order given in the List of Contents. Material supplementary to the 1982 catalogue has been found for all sections with the exception of Section A (Biographical and Personal).

Section B, Early Infrared Research, consists of significant additional material relating to Sutherland's wartime work on hydrocarbons (NCUACS 17.2.90/B.93- NCUACS 17.2.90/B.109), his immediate postwar work at Cambridge University (NCUACS 17.2.90/B.111-NCUACS 17.2.90/B.119) and his sojourn at the University of Michigan 1949-55 (NCUACS 17.2.90/B.120 - NCUACS 17.2.90/B.137).

Section C, The National Physical Laboratory, comprises correspondence, press-cuttings and photographs from Sutherland's period as Director, 1956 - 64.

Section D, Committees, Societies, Organisations, documents Sutherland's work for the British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting 1968, his service on the Ministry of Defence Space Review Committee and his consultancy with UNESCO on the establishment of a national institute for standards in Egypt.

Section E, Education and Science Policy, presents further material relating to Sutherland's interest in these issues.

It includes a virtually complete set of papers for meetings of the Working Group on Migration of the Committee on Manpower Resources of the Council for Scientific Policy which met to consider the 'brain drain' 1966 - 67.

Section F, Visits and Conferences, consists of a little new material on some of the visits made and conferences attended by Sutherland between 1950 and 1964. Of most interest are the papers relating to Sutherland's visit to the USSR in 1958 (NCUACS 17.2.90/F.52-NCUACS 17.2.90/F.55).

Section G, Drafts, Lectures, Publications and Section H, General Correspondence, are both very slight.

Compiled by Timothy E Powell and Peter Harper

The work of the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, and the production of this catalogue, are made possible by the support of the following societies and organisations:

The Biochemical Society

The British Library

The Geological Society

The Institute of Physics

National Power

Pergamon Books

Rolls-Royce plc

The Royal Society

The Royal Society of Chemistry

The Society of Chemical Industry

We are very grateful to Lady Sutherland for making the material available, and for her advice and encouragement.

The material has been arranged into sections and numbered to follow the sequence of the catalogue compiled in 1982 (CSAC 89/7/82), which should be consulted in conjunction with this Supplementary Catalogue.

Material additional to CSAC 89/7/ 82

Sutherland, Sir, Gordon Brims Black McIvor, 1907-1980, knight, physicist

The papers were found in Emmanuel College Cambridge and received from Lady Sutherland in March 1989.

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