Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas, (1897-1967), Knight, Knight, physicist and engineer

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Surname:	Cockcroft
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	John Douglas
Gender:	Male
Date:	1897-1967
Title:	Knight
Biography:	ODNB link for Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas (1897-1967), Knight, physicist and engineer
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P275140 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P144944 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1939-1961: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and predecessors: Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell: Cockroft Papers	The National Archives, Kew	AB 27
2	1872-1985: corresp and papers incl diaries and scrapbook rel to Churchill College and St John's College	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	CKFT	NRA 14614 See Annual Returns 1998-2000, 2009, 2017
3	1946-58: papers rel to Harwell	The National Archives	AB27
4	1940-41: papers rel to Maud Committee	Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (UK Atomic Energy Authority) Nuclear Records Image Resources		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
5	1934: scientific notes by him and ETS Walton	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	WLTN	NRA 43500
6	1939-66: corresp with Lord Blackett	Royal Society	PB	NRA 22627 Blackett See CSAC 63/1/79
7	1936-61: corresp with Niels Bohr	Niels Bohr Archive		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
8	1941-1967: corresp with Egon Bretscher	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	BRER	NRA 28915
9	1946-1964: corresp with Sir Edward Bullard	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	BLRD	NRA 26785
10	1940-60: corresp with Sir James Chadwick	Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (UK Atomic Energy Authority) Nuclear Records Image Resources		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
11	1944-60: corresp with Sir James Chadwick	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	CHAD	NRA 24569
12	1943-57: corresp with Lord Cherwell	Oxford University: Nuffield College Library	CSAC 80.4.81	NRA 16447
13	1953-1955: corresp with Thomas Haldane	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	TGNH	NRA 25830
14	1955-1967: corresp with AV Hill	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	AVHL	NRA 28116
15	corresp with Sir Rudolf Peierls	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	CSAC 52.6.77
16	1931-66: corresp with Edmund Stoner	Leeds University Library, Special Collections	MS 333	NRA 17735
17	1940-52: corresp with Sir Henry Tizard	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents	HTT	NRA 24549 Tizard
18	corresp rel to Cavendish Laboratory	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	CAV	NRA 34675 Cambridge Cavendish