Papers and correspondence of Professor Richard Whiddington. 1907-1973.

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Papers and correspondence of Professor Richard Whiddington. 1907-1973.

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Comprises broadly: (1) Biographical material; (2) Manuscript notes for lectures Whiddington attended at Cambridge including those given by G.F.C. Searle and C.T.R. Wilson, 1907-1908; (3) Manuscript notes for Whiddington's own lectures given at Leeds; (4) Some laboratory and other notebooks; (5) Correspondence relating to 'Science at War' (with J.G. Crowther), HMSO, 1947, and Whiddington's Royal Society memoir of J.W. Ryde.

48 items in 3 boxes; Manuscript.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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University of Leeds.

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Whiddington, Richard, 1885 - 1970

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Richard Whiddington was born in London and educated at the William Ellis School, Highgate and St John's College, Cambridge where he read for the Natural Sciences Tripos specialising in physics. He began research at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1908 and was appointed Demonstrator there the following year. He was elected to a Fellowship at St John's College in 1911. During the First World War he worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough on radio telegraphy and telephony res...

Ryde, John Walter, 1898-1961.

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