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Lewis, Wilfrid Bennett, 1908-1987
Wilfrid Bennett Lewis notebooks, 1926-1931.
Collection consists of the notebooks Lewis left in the safe keeping of his brother when he moved to Canada in 1946. The notebooks contain chiefly lecture notes and practical work for Lewis's undergraduate degree courses at Cambridge, 1927-1930. Notebook 1 contains physics notes which predate his university career and notebook 22 contains postgraduate work. Lectures by G.F.C. Searle are identified in notebooks 11 and 12.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, BA (Hons), 1930; research on radioactivity at the Cavendish Laboratory; Ph. D. for work on the analysis of alpha-particle groups, 1934; Research Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, 1934, University Demonstrator in Physics, 1935, University Lecturer, 1937; Senior Scientific Officers with Air Ministry Establishment (later the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), Malvern), 1939; on the outbreak of war, Lewis began radar work; Principal Scientific Officer, 1940; Superintendent of TRE, 1943; and Chief Superintendent, 1945; Director, Division of Atomic Energy of the National Research Council of Canada, 1946; Vice-President of Research and Development of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in 1952; and Senior Vice-President, 1963; on retirement took up a chair as Distinguished Professor of Science at Queen's University, Ontario, Canada, 1973.
Lewis, Wilfrid Bennett, 1908-1987
University of Cambridge -- Students.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Lecture notes. aat
Notebooks. aat
Physicists -- England.
Searle, G. F. C.
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Cambridge University. Library. Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. West Road, Cambridge, CH3 9DR
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