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Appleton, Edward Victor, Sir, 1892-1965.
Sir Edward Appleton papers and correspondence, circa 1918-1973.
The papers, which are substantial, deal almost exclusively with Appleton's scientific work. There is little personal or private correspondence and almost no surviving material, apart from lectures, speeches and addresses, relating to his public life as scientific administrator or university principal. There are however, a good run of diaries and engagement books amd extensive folders of notes, research ideas, manuscript calculations and data from all periods of Appleton's career, as well as much additional data contributed by assistants or from observatories. The correspondence includes an extended exchange of letters with B. van der Pol, 1921-1924, on oscillations and non-linearity, and long and frequent exchanges with long-term friends and collaborators such as W. J. G. Beynon, R. Naismith, and W. R. Piggot. Appleton's collection of reprints, preprints, and limited circulation reports also includes some important items.
Atmospheric physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society. Educated at Cambridge University. Cavendish Laboratory (1919-1924); Wheatstone Professor of Physics at King's College, London (1924-1936); headied an expedition to Troms ̀²in northern Norway as part of the program of observations scheduled for the Second International Polar Year (1932). President of the International Union of Scientific Radio (1934-1952). Jacksonian Chair of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1936). Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defense (1936). Secretary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (1938-1948). Principal of Edinburgh University (1948-1965). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1947 for his investigations into the ionosphere.
Appleton, Edward Victor, Sir, 1892-1965.
Beynon, W. J. G.
Piggott, W. R.
Pol, Balthasar van der, 1889-1959.
University of Edinburgh -- Administration.
Atmosphere, Upper -- Observations.
Atmospheric physics
Universities and colleges -- Administration -- Scotland 0th century.
Oscillations.
Nonlinear oscillations.
Calculations. aat
Lectures lcgft
Speeches. aat
Addresses. aat
Diaries lcgft
Appointment books. aat
Reprints. aat
Reports. aat
Physicists -- Scotland. lcsh
Naismith, R.
AIP-ICOS
University of Edinburgh. University Library, Special Collections. George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LJ, Scotland, UK
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