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Box 57: MS Add.8287/C.1-9

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Contains 1 Result:

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Birkbeck College, 1922, 1937-1978

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8287/C
Scope and Contents

Bernal was appointed to the Chair of Physics in November 1937, starting part-time in January 1938 and full-time from March 1938. Birkbeck College was then in the Breams Building off Chancery Lane, London, WC2. It was bombed during the war and rebuilt on the Bloomsbury site after the war. On 1 July 1948 the Biomolecular Research Laboratory, Torrington Square, was opened. In September 1963, Bernal was appointed to the Chair of Crystallography. He retired in 1968.

Dates: 1922, 1937-1978
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