Catalogue description United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and predecessors: Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell: Cockroft Papers

This series consists of private and official papers of Sir John Cockcroft, first director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell. These papers cover his wartime activities and his periods as Director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell and Member for Research of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

The series includes the texts of various lectures and speeches delivered by Cockcroft in his role as director, and files relating to his appointment, to the choice of the Harwell site, and to relations with various international atomic energy bodies.

See also AB 6

Further correspondence to or from Cockcroft and his manuscript notes of meetings can be found in AB 58

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Knight, 1897-1967