Coulson, C. A. (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974.
C. A. Coulson papers, 1900-1974.
The papers are very extensive and chart, almost without interruption, all aspects of Coulson's life and career. They include many unpublished lectures and papers, many publications omitted from the official bibliography, and much personal and scientific correspondence. There is also material relating to Oxford University and Coulson's part in the development of the Mathematical Institute and the Theoretical Chemistry Department. The collection documents his work in developing research schools and the scholars he helped to foster. The records of working notes, calculations and correspondence help to provide a picture of the development of theoretical chemistry as a subject of research as an academic discipline with which Coulson was closely involved from about 1930 to his death in 1974. He preserved his notes taken as an undergraduate and a graduate student at Cambridge, as well as notes and updated drafts for his own lectures and talks. There is also very extensive correspondence on all topics of interest to Coulson, scientific and religious.
The collection is divided into the following series: Biographical and Personal; Scientific Working Papers, Lectures, Publications; Correspondence; Religious, Humanitarian, Pacifist Writings; Scientific Committees, Societies, Journals, Conferences; Religious, Humanitarian, Pacifist Organisations; Oxford University; Conspectus of Coulson's Publications; and Bibliography of Coulson's Publications.
Mathematician and theoretical chemist. Educated at Clifton College, Bristol and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was appointed lecturer in Mathematics at St. Andrews University at University College, Dundee in 1938. In 1945 he moved to Oxford University to join the Physical Chemistry Laboratory as a theoretician and soon became a lecturere in Mathematics at University College, Oxford. Two years later he accepted his first chair as Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College, London. In 1952 he returned to Oxford as Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in succession to E. A. Milne. In 1972 he became the first Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Oxford in a chair that now bears his name. His most important contribution to theoretical chemistry was his molecular orbital theory and the concept of partial valency. He was elected FRS in 1950 (Davy Medal 1970).
Coulson, C. A. (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974 -- Views on humanitarianism.
Coulson, C. A. (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974 -- Views on pacifism.
Coulson, C. A. (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974 -- Views on religion.
Coulson, C. A. (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974 -- Writings.
University of Oxford
University of Oxford. Mathematical Institute.
Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Humanitarianism.
Mathematics
Pacifism -- Societies, etc.
Science -- Societies, etc.
Bibliographies. ftamc
Lectures lcgft aat
Manuscripts for publication. ftamc
Obituaries. ftamc
Mathematicians -- Biography.
Pacifists lcsh
Coulson, C. A. (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974.
Coulson family.
AIP-ICOS
University of Oxford. Bodleian Library. Department of Western Manuscripts. Oxford, England, UK