Papers of Sir Samuel Curran 1951-2004

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Papers of Sir Samuel Curran 1951-2004

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Strathclyde University Archives

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Curran, Samuel C. (Samuel Crowe), 1912-

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Samuel Curran, internationally respected nuclear physicist and first Principal of the University of Strathclyde, was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, his mother's home town, but spent his childhood and youth in Wishaw, Lanarkshire. After schooling at Wishaw High School, Curran graduated with first class honours in mathematics and natural philosophy from Glasgow University and joined the University Physics Department as a PhD student in 1934. He researched the diffraction of beta rays of radium ...