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Contents of original file entitled "The Pugwash Movement" relating to the British Advisory Committee and fund raising. Includes correspondence with Lord Russell [Bertrand Russell], Sir John Cockcroft and Lord Kennet [Wayland Young]. Includes draft and copies of "The Pugwash Movement" information leaflet (see also RTBT 5/9/1/3), speech given at Central Hall Westminster 17 January 1959 and printed copy of the Vienna Declaration 1958.

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Papers relating to Cockcroft, particularly his research work and correspondence with the Cavendish Laboratory, and lectures by and concerning him.

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Including papers about Churchill Archives Centre.

Scope and Contents Papers on the early days of controlled thermonuclear fusion research in the UK, 1945-60, collected by Dr J .D. Lawson, FRS. Includes the printed report "Fusion research in the UK, 1945-60" by John Hendry and John D. Lawson, published by the Authority Historian's Office, AEA Technology Harwell, Oxfordshire (box 1). The rest of the archive consists mainly of papers mentioned in the report, other historical material, letters from Peter Thonemann to Hendry and Lawson,...

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Including Sir John Cockcroft.

Scope and Contents The Society for Education in the Applications of Science (SEAS) was established as a UK charity in 1968 and wound up in 1991 when the remaining assets were transferred to the British Pugwash Trust (see RTBT 5/6/4). Its main purpose was to provide a legal entity for the receipt of charitable donations to Pugwash including those raised by an appeal to establish the Cockcroft Memorial Fund in memory of Sir John Cockcroft, first President of Pugwash, who died in 1967. The body was governed...

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The papers include: physics notebooks; lecture and teaching notes, 1927-73; papers on the invention and patenting of the proximity fuze [proximity fuse]; copy of a paper by Professor John Cockcroft, "A General Account of Army Radar"; copy of the Los Alamos lectures on nuclear physics, 1943; journals from the Home Office Scientific Adviser's branch, 1961-66 and 1973; and a Home Office civil defence data book, as well as correspondence with John Maynard Keynes, 1936-1944.

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The collection relates to Burcham's scientific career, especially his work in the high voltage laboratory under M L E Oliphant and P I Dee which was set up to pursue the findings of Sir John Cockcroft and E T S Walton in splitting atomic nuclei.

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These files mainly contain routine correspondence and reports regarding the early development of the atomic bomb.

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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.