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Catalogue description Papers of SIR JOHN SEALY E. TOWNSEND, K.B.E., F.R.S. (1868 - 1957)
This record is held by Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
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| Title: | Papers of SIR JOHN SEALY E. TOWNSEND, K.B.E., F.R.S. (1868 - 1957) |
| Description: |
The files of patents (from Britain, France, Italy and the U.S.) constitute the major portion of the collection and are arranged chronologically. Item 8 in 'Publications' includes an extensively corrected typescript of 'Theory of Waves in Gases', the book on sound which Professor Townsend was writing during his last years. I. Biographical 1 II. Publications 2 - 9 III. Correspondence 10 IV. Patents and contracts 11 - 21 |
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Listed by: Jeannine Alton Harriot Weiskittel " |
| Date: | 1914-1957 |
| Held by: | Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 1 box |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
The papers were received from the Bodleian Library where they were deposited in 1957. They cover the years 1914 - 1956. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Summary of the career of Professor Townsend 1868 Born in Galway, Ireland 1885 Entered Trinity College Dublin 1890 - 95 Fellowship Prizeman 1895 Entered Trinity College Cambridge as an advanced student 1898 Clerk Maxwell Scholar 1899 Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge 1900 - 41 Wykeham Professor of Theoretical Physics, Oxford 1900 - 41 Fellow of New College Oxford 1903 Fellow of the Royal Society 1910 Opening of the Electrical Laboratory (now the Townsend Laboratory) 1911 Married Mary Georgiana Lambert 1914 - 18 Wireless research, Royal Naval Air Service 1941 K.B.E. 1941 Move to Winchester for several years followed by return to Oxford |
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