Papers, 1921-1980.

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Papers, 1921-1980.

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(1) File of early laboratory research notes on photochemistry, conducted in the Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, Oxford, 1921-1925. This file represents the beginnings of Bowen's lifelong research into the physical chemistry of light, and is the only purely scientific manuscript that he preserved. (2) Miscellaneous historical notes on history of science (1950s and 1960s), in particular the history of the Alembic Club, the Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, and the Royal Society of London (the Latter with Margery Purver). (3) Biographical, autobiographical, and historical papers (on history of science and on Oxford local history), and correspondence (1921-1980). Correspondents (indexed in Contemporary Scientific Archives Center finding aid 81/5/81) include: R. M. Acheson, W. J. Arkell, R. P. Bell, C. A. Coulson, Sir Harold Hartley, Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, William Hume-Rothery, F. A. Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), E. A. Milne, R. G. A. New, H. H. Plaskett, Sir Robert Robinson, N. V. Sidgwick, Dame Janet Vaughan, Sir Harold Wilson (Lord Wilson).

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Royal Society (Great Britain)

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The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge began in 1645 when a group of eminent British thinkers started to meet regularly in London to discuss the new, experimental philosophies of science. Though the English Civil War and the Cromwellian Protectorate interrupted its meetings, the Society was formally constituted in 1660. Two years later King Charles II granted the Society its first charter. A second royal charter was granted in 1663 when the Society was given its official nam...

Bowen, E. J. (Edmund John), 1898-1980

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Physical chemist; Fellow of the Royal Society; tutor and Fellow of University College, Oxford. Bowen was a student and graduate researcher at the Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, Oxford, in the 1920s and 1930s, when they were the centre of Oxford's important school of physical chemistry. His own special field was photochemistry. From the description of Papers, 1921-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78375169 ...

Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957

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Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950

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Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent, 1873-1952

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Chemist, who worked in various fields of chemistry; Fellow of the Royal Society; Reader in Chemistry, Oxford, 1924, and Professor of Chemistry, 1936 until his death. Known especially for his work in physical organic chemistry, and for his infludential book on valency (1927). From the description of Papers, 1893-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82445921 ...

Coulson, C.A. (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974

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Mathematician. From the description of Papers, 1905-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155003618 ...