Papers and correspondence of William Thomas Astbury, 1898-1961. 1914-1961.

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Papers and correspondence of William Thomas Astbury, 1898-1961. 1914-1961.

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Comprises: Mainly correspondence with societies, journals, firms and individuals relating (with some gaps) to all aspects of Astbury's activities from about 1928. They include extensive correspondence, 1939-1956, with Kenneth Bailey, few of whose papers survive elsewhere. There are also some notebooks, slides and press-cuttings.

378 items in 39 boxes.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Bailey, Kenneth, 1909-1963

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Astbury, William Thomas, 1898-1961

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Epithet: physicist and molecular biologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000837.0x0002b6 William Thomas Astbury was born at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Longton High School and Jesus College, Cambridge, 1917, 1919-1921. He became a Demonstrator in Physics at University College, London, and worked there as assistant to Sir William Bragg, 1921-1923, and at the Royal Institution, London, 1923-1928. In...