Bates, L. F. (Leslie Fleetwood)
L. F. Bates papers and correspondence, 1914-1978.
There is very little material in the papers from Bates's pre-Nottingham career except three notebooks from the Bristol period and lectures delivered to undergraduates at London, and very little remains of Bates's actual scientific work except for the three Bristol notebooks. There is material relating to the development of physics at Nottingham, to the magnetism conferences of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) which Bates usually attended and some of which he helped to organize, and to his many services to learned societies, committees and organizations at both national and local level. These include the Royal Society Symbols Committee, the British Standards Institution Units and Symbols Committee, the University Grants Committee on which he served as assessor, the Home office and others. There is some biographical material especially speeches and letters of congratulation. In Bates's correspondence exchanges are both personal and scientific, often intermixed and there are many letters from former Nottingham students.
Bates (1897-1978) was a graduate in physics, University of Bristol, 1916-; worked under Rutherford at Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge, 1922-1924 and completed Ph. D. thesis; appointed lecturer at University College, London, 1924 and Reader 1930; became Lancaster-Spencer Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham; retired 1964-; member of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Commission on Magnetism, Secretary, 1957-1966. At Nottingham he established a thriving research group based on his own interest in magnetism, was responsible for the building of a large new Physics Department and was very active in general university administration. He was elected FRS in 1950.
Institute of Physics (Great Britain)
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
Physical Society (Great Britain)
Royal Society (Great Britain)
University of Nottingham.
Magnetism.
Physics -- Congresses.
Physics -- Societies, etc.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Solid state physics.
Lectures lcgft
Notebooks. aat
AIP-ICOS
University of Nottingham. Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections. Hallward Library. University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD