Scope and Contents Includes two copies of Lord Hinton's unpublished memoirs covering his life and career from 1901-70; lectures and talks, 1950s & 1960s; and planning and progress charts for the United Kingdom's atomic energy programme, 1946-54, with an interesting and informative covering letter by Hinton dated April 1982. The bulk of the material concerns Hinton's involvement with the development of nuclear energy in UK, but there are also papers and lectures relating to his report for the...

Scope and Contents The Plowden Papers include: engagement diaries (1947-93); a wide range of political and personal correspondence (1946-94); copies of speeches (1960-90); working papers and correspondence on Plowden's autobiography "An Industrialist in the Treasury"; a large amount of papers relating to public commitments such as atomic energy, Plowden's various committees, political groups and business interests, enquiries into the police, the review board on top salaries etc (1957-95); press cuttings and...

Scope and Contents CHAD I consists of papers and letters relating mainly to Chadwick's atomic energy work. The material in CHAD II is correspondence relating largely to Gonville and Caius, a little scientific correspondence and some mainly ephemeral items with a few articles and offprints. CHAD III contains the scientific notebooks of Sir James Chadwick and Professor Sir Ernest Rutherford as well as correspondence with individuals and about non-Atomic Energy work. CHAD IV contains Chadwick's Atomic Energy...

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Papers comprising laboratory notebooks, articles, lectures, correspondence and photographs.
Also includes records of the Kapitza Club, 1922-58 and 1966, and copy papers of the Maud Committee, 1940-1.
With offprints of papers by Ernest Rutherford, 1872-1913.