| Summary: | Papers relating to Sir James Chadwick and the Department of Physics collected in the course of Dr King"s research for his University of Liverpool Ph.D Thesis on Chadwick, Liverpool and the Bomb 1997, including: copies of photographs of mass spectrometer and 37" cyclotron and some other apparatus, and of staff and students of the Department of Physics associated with the same [c. 1943-1947]; photocopied transcript of a tape-recorded interview of Sir James Chadwick conducted by Charles Weimer for the American Institute of Physics 1969; photocopy of monthly Progress Reports of the George Holt Physics Laboratory [Jul 1942-Jun 1947]; photocopy of an article on research into splitting the atom in the Sunday Express 30 Apr 1939 |
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| Date: | 1939-1997 |
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| Reference Number: | D765 |
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| Accruals: | There will be further accessions to this deposit |
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| Related Material: | A215 - Correspondence files of Sir James Chadwick 1935-1939 and copies of minutes of the 156th Cyclotron Building Progress Committee and related papers 1948-1952 deposited by Dr King with the Department of Physics and then given the reference A215 as a transfer from the Department |
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| Separated Material: | Originals of monthly Progress Reports of the George Holt Physics Laboratory are held by Churchill College, Cambridge with Dr King"s analysis of the same |
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| Bibliography: | [Book] King, Charles David, Chadwick, Liverpool and the Bomb Liverpool University Thesis, 1997. |
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| Biographical/Administrative Information: | Sir James Chadwick, Lyon Jones Professor of Physics 1935-1948, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool 1946-1948 [For details of Sir James Chadwick"s life and career see H Massey and N Feather. James Chadwick 20 Oct 1891 - 24 Jul 1974 in Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 22, 1976, pp. 11-70] |
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