Whiddington, Richard, 1885-1970.
Richard Whiddington papers and correspondence, 1907-1973.
Whiddington discarded most of his papers when he moved to Norfolk on retirement from Leeds University in 1951. The surviving material consists largely of manuscript notes for lectures: notes for lectures Whiddington attended at Cambridge including those given by G. F. C. Searle and C. T. R. Wilson, 1907-1908, and notes for Whiddington's own lectures at Leeds. There is also correspondence relating to Science at war (with J. G. Crowther), Her Majestys Stationery Office, 1947 and Whiddington's Royal Society memoir of J. W. Ryde.
Whiddington was educated at Cambridge University. He began research at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1908 and was appointed Demonstrator there the following year. He was elected to a fellowship at St. John's College in 1911. During the First World War he worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough on radio telegraphy and telephony research and design. After the war he moved to Leeds University as Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1919-1951. He was seconded to the Admiralty Scientific Service (development of radar) and the Ministry of Supply (Deputy Director of Scientific Research) during the Second World War.
Whiddington, Richard, 1885-1970.
Whiddington, Richard, 1885-1970. Science at war.
Great Britain. Her Majestys Stationery Office.
University of Cambridge -- Study and teaching.
Lecture notes. aat
Physicists. lcsh
Crowther, J. G. (James Gerald), 1899-
Ryde, J. W.
Searle, G. F. C.
Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees, 1869-1959
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