Papers of Arthur Smithells, concerning the University of Leeds ca.1900-1955

Smithells, Arthur, 1860-1939

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Arthur Smithells (1860-1939) was born at Bury in Lancashire. He graduated in chemistry at Owen's College, Manchester, in 1881 (B.Sc., London), and continued his training in Heidelberg, under R. B. von Bunsen, and in Munich. He returned to Manchester as an assistant lecturer in 1883 but in 1885 was appointed professor of chemistry at the Yorkshire College in Leeds. Here he not only pursued his research into the structure of flames, which was his main contribution to pure science, but also played ...

Woledge, Geoffrey, 1901-1988.

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Geoffrey Woledge was a graduate of the University of Leeds, who began his professional career in librarianship in 1919, as an assistant in the University Library, remaining in Leeds until 1931. After a number of appointments he became Librarian at Queen's, Belfast in 1938, and finally became Librarian of the British Library of Political and Economic Science from 1944 until retirement in 1966 From the guide to the The Student: a superfluous magazine, edited by Geoffrey Woledge and pub...

University of Leeds History 20th century

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