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Physics

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:

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The Papers of Professor Antony Hewish

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HWSH
Scope and Contents

Comprising pulsar discovery charts; lecture notes, laboratory notebooks and logbooks, and correspondence and memorabilia, mainly about the award of the Nobel Prize.

Dates: 1949 - 2013
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor James Cassels

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CASS
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The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre include a small amount of biographical and personal material, public or official correspondence, and material relating to government policy on energy (mainly in the 1980's).

Dates: 1967 - 1996
Conditions Governing Access: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. One file, CASS 1/6, is closed in line with the depositors wishes.
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The Papers of Professor Max Born

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BORN
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Papers and correspondence of Professor Max Born, his wife and children, and material concerning their family history. Including photographs and artefacts.

Dates: 1811 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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The Papers of Professor Nicholas Kemmer

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KEMM
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The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre includes Kemmer's personal and scientific papers.

Dates: 1938 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor Paul Dirac

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DRAC
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This collection of xeroxes comprises mainly letters and rough notes showing the developing history of quantum mechanics.

Dates: 1924 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RTBT
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Rotblat’s personal archive includes working papers, notebooks, correspondence, lectures and photographs and documents his scientific career (including his research in atomic physics at the University of Liverpool and medical physics at St Bartholomew's Hospital) and the Pugwash organisation and conferences. There is a separate section covering Rotblat’s involvement with various societies and organisations. The remainder of the collection is still being catalogued and remains closed.

Dates: 1916 - 2010
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Reginald Victor Jones

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RVJO
Scope and Contents

This collections comprises correspondence; papers relating to awards and honours; wartime documents including copies of the Air Scientific Intelligence reports he wrote during WWII, copies of intelligence reports he received, and captured German documents; papers relating to Jones' research topics and scientific interests; publications; conferences, lectures, and speeches.

Dates: 1928 - 1998
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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The Papers of Sir Basil Schonland

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SCHO
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising working files from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, at Harwell

Dates: 1954 - 1960
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Edward Crisp Bullard

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BLRD
Scope and Contents

The archive covers almost every aspect of Bullard's career, with the exception of his wartime papers, which he destroyed in 1945. The collection comprises: biographical and family materials; extensive collections of working papers relating to Bullard's research and publications; consultancy and committee papers; lecture notes; and a selection of correspondence; and documents relating to Bullard's antiquarian book collecting.

Dates: 1915 - 2014
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Eric Eastwood

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/EAST
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This collection consists mainly of material relating to the development of radar and Eastwood's other scientific work and interests, covering radar, ornithology and defence issues. There are copies of his published works as well as many working papers. There are also personal papers including photographs and diaries plus audio-visual material used by Eastwood for lectures is also included.

Dates: 1920 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access: Apart from one item in Box 15, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir James Chadwick

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAD
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...
Dates: 1914 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open (except for marked closures) for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir John Cockcroft

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CKFT
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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.

Dates: 1872 - 1985
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir John Randall

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RNDL
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Papers relating to the cavity magnetron and to biophysics, including lectures, articles, research notebooks, correspondence, press cuttings, drawings and photographs.

Dates: 1920 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Martin Ryle

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RYLE
Scope and Contents The scientific papers and correspondence relate to Ryle's work both as an individual and his international interests. The material includes: papers on Ryle's wartime work for the Telecommunications Research Establishment; material from the Radio Astronomy Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, particularly on the development of Cambridge Radio Observatories; research notes and papers; papers relating to Ryle's anti-nuclear activism and interest in alternative forms of energy; publications and...
Dates: 1924 - 1998
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Thomas Allibone

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ALIB
Scope and Contents

The papers include: scrapbooks on Allibone's career; correspondence; published journals; research publications for Associated Electrical Industries; photographs.

Dates: 1915-08 - 2001-08
Conditions Governing Access: Closed until catalogued.
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William Hyde Wollaston: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7736
Scope and Contents The collection contains notebooks containing medical notes and records of various scientific experiments, correspondence, lecture notes and various miscellaneous papers. Box 1 Miscellaneous There are two sets of material, one containing copies of articles, notes, letters, etc., the other consisting of letters and notes in brown envelopes to or from L.F. Gilbert. Notebooks 1st series: 1-4. scientific notebooks 'O', 'H', 'G', and 'D'; 5. 'Tours', notes on Wollaston by Henry Warburton; 6. 'Ink...
Dates: 1786-1967 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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