Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-1968.
Edmund C. Stoner papers and correspondence, 1909-1969.
The collection consists of Stoner's own compilation of material, with many of his own notes, dates and comments; included are completed narrative accounts of school and university days, and some stories, essays and poems. There is a complete run of daily journals (1919-1968), material relating to the Department of Physics at Leeds, and an extensive correspondence section (1918-1966) fully indexed by Stoner, this includes the regular correspondence between Stoner and relatives in the London area during the Second World War, which gives a record of life at that period. Although much of the correspondence is related to day-to-day activities, visits, conferences, appointment of examiners, etc., the scientific exchanges of interest include an extended correspondence in the late 1940s and early 1950s with his former student Erich Peter Wohlfarth relevant to developments in the theory of ferromagnetism. The collection includes notes made by Stoner of lectures given at Cambridge by Ernest Rutherford, Edward Appleton, George Searle, Joseph John Thomson, Charles Galton Darwin, C. T. R. Wilson, and others, as well as Niels Bohr's lecture on quantum theory and atomic structure given at Cambridge in 1922. The collection also includes miscellaneous photographs covering the period 1910-1963, listed and described by Stoner himself.
Physicist and member of the Royal Society. Educated at Cambridge University; worked with Rutherford as a graduate student at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge from 1921 to 1924 when he was appointed Lecturer in Physics at Leeds University. He remained at Leeds for the rest of his life, as Reader in Physics, 1927-1939, Professor of Theoretical Physics, 1939-1951, and Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1951-1963, in succession to R. Whiddington. His research interests were in magnetism and low temperatures.
Appleton, Edward Victor, Sir, 1892-1965.
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.
Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962.
Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-1968.
University of Cambridge.
University of Leeds. Dept. of Physics.
Atomic structure.
Ferromagnetism.
Quantum theory.
Solid state physics.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
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Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937
Searle, G. F. C.
Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940
Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees, 1869-1959
Wolfarth, Erich Peter, 1924-
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University of Leeds. Brotherton Library. Department of Special Collections. Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9JT