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Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, (1892-1965), physicist

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Surname: Appleton
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Edward Victor
Gender: Male
Date: 1892-1965
History: 1947 Nobel prize physicist; researcher in scientific problems of wireless telegraphy. Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1939-1949. Knighted 1941.
Biography: ODNB link for Appleton, Sir Edward Victor (1892-1965), Knight, physicist
References: DNB, 1992; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P275688 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P136431 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Edward Victor Appleton
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1945-1948: Sir Patrick Abercrombie: 1948 tour to Australia, lecturing on town planning. Lady Allen...
The National Archives, Kew
BW 83/1
2
1916-65: corresp and papers
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll-37
NRA 24825
3
misc corresp
Medical Research Council
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
4
1940-48: corresp with Sir James Chadwick
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
CHAD I 25/1, IV 10/49
NRA 24569
5
1940-55: corresp with Lord Cherwell
Oxford University: Nuffield College Library
CSAC 80.4.81
NRA 16447
6
1943-46: corresp with Sir Henry Dale
The National Archives
CAB127/224
7
1942-52: corresp with AV Hill
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
AVHL
NRA 28116
8
1925-36: letters (396) to John Ashworth Ratcliffe
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Gen 1985
9
1924-36: letters to Sir Owen Richardson
University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
NRA 22337 Richardson
10
1936-46: corresp with Sir Henry Tizard
Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents
HTT
NRA 24549 Tizard
11
1963: misc notes
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Archives
SC MSS 186
See Annual Return 2009