The papers present a comprehensive record of Rotblat’s career at the Medical College, covering his teaching and departmental roles as well as his wider participation in the University of London’s educational policies. His teaching responsibilities are represented by a substantial quantity of manuscript lecture notes (for MB courses and postgraduate courses in physics and radiobiology), covering almost all his years at the Medical College. There is much material relating to the organisation and planning of courses and some papers concerning the Medical College’s educational policy in the early 1960s. In addition, there are papers documenting his role as a University of London examiner and as an external examiner for PhD candidates at other institutions. Concerning the laboratory and project spheres of his work, the planning, implementation (in 1955) and use of the Linear Accelerator are covered extensively and papers relating to research grant applications, equipment and building development are also found. A separate group of papers documents the development of radiobiology at the Medical College from 1959 and the protracted deliberations over the future of the Radiobiology Unit. Rotblat’s work for a number of Medical College and University of London committees and boards is well represented; there is also his correspondence with the Dean and the Secretary of the Medical College from periods in the 1960s and 1970s.

An unexpected find was a group of papers and correspondence of F.L. Hopwood, Rotblat’s predecessor as Professor of Physics at Barts, which is included in this section. Among these papers are a 1916 notebook giving accounts of scientific experiments carried out by Hopwood and of general activities; drafts of scientific papers and lecture material; papers relating to a planned cyclotron and linear accelerator (1930s and 1940s); and brief correspondence with scientists such as J.J. Thomson, W.H. Bragg and E. Rutherford, 1926-1954.