Linfoot, Edward Hubert, 1905-1982 (mathematician and astronomer)

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Dates

Existence: 1905 - 1982

Biography

Edward Hubert Linfoot (1905-82), mathematician and researcher in optics; Lecturer in Mathematics, Bristol University, 1932-48; and Assistant Director and John Couch Adams Astronomer at the University Observatory, Cambridge, 1948-70.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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Additional publications and lectures, 1949-1964

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add. 8726/D.41

Scope and Contents Contains: letter from Bernard Pagel, Royal Greenwich Observatory Archive to E.H. Linfoot, the Observatories, Madingley Road Cambridge, about the design of a Cassegrain spectrograph for the Isaac Newton Telescope, 5 May 1964; reprint of a paper by Herbert Dingle from The Bulletin of the Institute of Physics, pp. 314-316, December 1968 annotated [by Linfoot?] with an inserted note containing further calculations; an undated note on Ritchey Chrétien telescopes, containing a list of...

Dates: 1949-1964

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Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.8726, Edward Hubert Linfoot: Correspondence and Papers / Publications, Lectures, and Conferences

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Index of Reprints, c.1925-1982

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add. 8726/D.42

Scope and Contents From the Series: Publications, Lectures, and Conferences presents a chronological sequence of drafts and related correspondence. The largest body of material relates to Linfoot's unpublished book on almost periodic functions (completed at Princeton 1929-31), and comprises a typescript draft and correspondence with the Clarendon Press Oxford and colleagues in Britain, Germany and the USA. This section also includes material relating to a mathematics colloquium organised by Linfoot and H Heilbronn at Bristol...

Dates: c.1925-1982