Papers, 1925-1974.

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Papers, 1925-1974.

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Biographical material includes obituaries, curricula vitae and Powell's autobiographical drafts principally relating to his family background and school and university education. There are also examples of his short stories and other fiction. Oxford University material includes Powell's undergraduate notebooks and his notes on the lecutres of F. Soddy, C. N. Hinshelwood, J. W. J. Taylor and D. L. Chapman, for 1925 and 1926. Chemical crystallography material is not extensive but includes a small number of papers from or relating to Dorothy Hodgkin and Powell's historical notes on the development of chemical crystallography at Oxford. Powell's lecture notes were found in considerable disorder but cover an extended period from 1928 and such topics as crystal chemistry and molecular compounds. Powell's research is represented by laboratory notebooks covering the early part of his career from 1928 to about 1940, including a notebook with lecture notes made during a visit by Powell to the Mineralogy Institute of the University of Leipzig in 1930. There are also later notes and drafts of 1950s work in inert gases, tri-o-thymotide, etc. There are drafts of some of Powell's invitations and publication lectures 1953-1968 and of his scientific papers 1942-1966, including drafts and correspondence relating to his 1960 paper on Japanese chemical writing and his 1966 spoof paper on color in chemistry. There are also biographical accounts of colleagues in crystallography and chemistry including early recollections of Dorothy Hodgkin at Oxford and drafts for text by Powell of a general or popular scientific nature. A film on crystal structure made by the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Film Unit in collaboration with Powell is documented by scripts, drafts, and correspondence. Visits and conference mateial covers the period 1948-1974. Particularly well documented is his 1962 visit to China as a member of a Royal Society delegation to the Academia Sinica, Peking. There are also papers relating to visits to Roumania in 1964 and Russia in 1966 and 1969. Powell's linguistic interests are documented by notes and drafts on his work on language representation. There are also drafts for a course on learning Russian prepared with the scientific student in mind. Scientific correspondence is not extensive. There is, however, an alphabetical sequence of principal correspondents including scientific colleaugues such as W. Baker, F. G. Mann and R. S. Nyholm and industrial concerns interested in the applications of Powell's work such as the British Oxygen Company, Imperial Chemical Industries, and Johnson, Matthey and Company.

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