Berkeley, Randal Mowbray Thomas Rawdon, 8th Earl of Berkeley, 1865-1942
Randal Mowbray Thomas Rawdon Berkeley laboratory records, 1895-1927.
Letter-book containing copies of Berkeley's correspondence relating to his laboratory, 1911-1915; and also reports of instrument tests; 2 instrument record and calibration books from Berkeley's laboratory, 1895-1927.
Physicist and physical chemist; Fellow of the Royal Society. Lord Berkeley worked in the chemical laboratories of Oxford University, but did not study for a degree. He then established a private laboratory at his house, Foxcombe Hall, at Boars Hill, near Oxford. His special interests were thermodynamics and osmotic pressure; he also studied the physics of the game of golf. His laboratory closed in 1928 (when some of its equipment and papers passed to the Balliol-Trinity physical chemistry laboratories.
Calibration -- Records.
Laboratories -- England.
Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Records.
Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Testing.
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