Papers, 1939-1979.

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Papers, 1939-1979.

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Papers contain laboratory notebooks and drawings associated with the design of the first cavity magnetron during 1939-1945, and further notes, drawings, blueprints, reports, corresondence, and committee papers relating to its subsequent development. There are reports of research teams in various British and American Universities, institutions and government departments, including those led by D. R. Hartree (q.v.) at Manchester University and E. C. Stoner (q.v.) at Leeds University. There are also a number of historical accounts of the development of the cavity magnetron.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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University of Manchester

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Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-1968

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Physicist and member of the Royal Society. Educated at Cambridge University; worked with Rutherford as a graduate student at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge from 1921 to 1924 when he was appointed Lecturer in Physics at Leeds University. He remained at Leeds for the rest of his life, as Reader in Physics, 1927-1939, Professor of Theoretical Physics, 1939-1951, and Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1951-1963, in succession to R. Whiddington. His research interests were in magnetism and low temp...

University of Leeds.

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Hartree, Douglas R. (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958

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Hartree was born in Cambridge and educated at Bedales School, 1910-1915. He entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1915 but his course was interrupted by war and he joined the team led by A.V. Hill which was studying anti-aircraft gunnery. He returned to Cambridge after the war, graduating in 1921, Mathematical Tripos Part I, Natural Sciences Tripos (Physics) Part II. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1926. He was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, 1924-1927, and Christ's College, Cambridge, 1...

Boot, Henry Albert Howard, 1917-

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Boot was a physicist who made an outstanding contribution to the successfull application of British science during the Second World War. Working with J. T. Randall in M. L. E. Oliphant's laboratory at Birmingham University, Boot produced the first 10 centimetre radar through the cavity magnetron, a discovery which had profound impact on the waging of war in several important spheres. In the Battle of the Atlantic centimetric radar provided the allies with a means of locating with accuracy, surfa...