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The Papers of Jack Ratcliffe

Title	Correspondence
Reference	RACL 4

Churchill/RACL 4 contains:

Correspondence, A. Including correspondence with Jacov Alpert, mainly about reciprocal visits to Cambridge and Moscow, 1962, 1977-9 (6), with colour and black-and-white photographs of Jack Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow in 1962 (14); correspondence with Lady Appleton [Helen Appleton], about her husband Sir Edward Victor Appleton's letters, 1973-7 (8); a letter from J. W. Allen, about his scientific career at Stanford University, undated; correspondence with Olumuyiwa Awe, about physics research in Nigeria, 1971 (2); a letter from Ian Axford, partly about the Giotto spacecraft, 7 April 1986; and letters from Harry Asher, 1986 (3).
1 file.

1962–1986

Correspondence, B. Including correspondence with Henry G. Booker, about his research on scintillation, 1974, 1982 (6); correspondence with Tony Brinkley, 1981-2 (7), with colour and black-and-white photographs of himself, his family and his home in Australia (10); correspondence with Sir Hermann Bondi, about science education, 1982 (2); a letter from Sir Granville Beynon, 30 July 1982; a letter from Kenneth Budden, about lecturing at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, 4 October 1982; a letter from Peggy Barnett, partly about the death of her husband Miles Barnett, 1979-1982 (2), and a letter from their son, Jeremy Barnett, 3 May 1979; a letter from Basil Briggs, about his research at the University of Adelaide, 12 January 1981; a letter from Air Chief Marshal Sir Denis Fulton, with an obituary of Miles Barnett, 11 March [1980]; a letter from Lady Bragg [Alice Bragg], about Sir Lawrence Bragg's illness, 6 November [1962]; and a letter from Sir Lawrence Bragg, about the Nobel Prize and his recent illness, 19 November 1962.
1 file.

1962–1982

Correspondence, B. Including letters from Ronald N. Bracewell, about his visit to Cambridge, 1984 (2); a letter from Taffy Bowen [Edward George Bowen], about Sean Swords, "A Technical History of the Beginnings of Radar", 21 May 1984; correspondence with John Best, 1983-4 (5); letters from Tony Brinkley, partly about the history of radar, 1983-4 (6), with colour photographs of himself and his family (4); a letter from Harold Barlow, about a radar meeting at Halesworth, in Suffolk, in 1939, 26 June 1984; a letter from Henry G. Booker, enclosing details of his book, "Cold Plasma Waves", 16 November 1983; a letter from Peggy Barnett, widow of Miles Barnett, 9 December 1983; a letter from Basil Briggs, about radio research, 27 February 1983; and a letter from Sir Robert L. F. Boyd, enclosing a copy of his funeral address for Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, 21 December 1983.
1 file.

1983–1984

Correspondence, B. Including letters from Vivian Bowden, Baron Bowden of Chesterfield, mainly about Edward Bowen's book "Radar Days", with a copy of Lord Bowden's foreword to the book, 1986 (3); letters from Tony Brinkley, partly about work on wartime radar at Orford Ness, Bawdsey and Swanage, 1985-6 (4), with colour photographs of his family and home in Australia (6); letters from John Best, 1985-6 (3); a letter from Kenneth Budden, 25 November 1986; a letter from Sir David Bates, about Henry G. Booker, 11 December 1985; a letter from Henry G. Booker, 23 October 1985; letters from John Newton and Silva Newton, partly about Tony Brinkley, October 1985 (2); a letter from Sir Granville Beynon, about Henry G. Booker, 12 November 1985; a letter from Peggy Barnett, widow of Miles Barnett, 5 January 1985; a letter from Barbara Blue, about the death of her sister Frances Kelly, 5 January 1985; a letter from Air Chief Marshal Sir Denis Fulton, undated [1985]; a letter from Basil Briggs, about his retirement, 20 January 1985; and a letter from Duncan A. Bryant, about the UKS spacecraft, 3 March 1985.
1 file.

1985–1986

Correspondence with Bob [Robert Stirling]. Comprising personal correspondence with a friend met through a shared interest in hiking and climbing.
1 file.

1983–1986

Correspondence, C. Including a letter from Sir Eric Ashby, about the Graham Clark Lecture, 24 September 1968; correspondence with John Flavell Coales, 1967-9 (4); correspondence with Sydney Chapman, about Sir Granville Beynon, 1968-9 (4); correspondence with David Croom, about his temporary post at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories in the United States, 1969 (3); correspondence with Sir James Chadwick, about a lecture by Niels Bohr, 1969 (2); correspondenc with Ronald W. Clark, about his biography of Sir Edward Victor Appleton, 1968-9 (10); correspondence with J. A. Clegg, about physics education, 1967-8 (8); and correspondence with Alan Cullen, about the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1966-7 (8).
1 file.

1966–1969

Correspondence, C. Including a letter from John Corner [Edred John Henry Corner], about his visit to Japan, 31 January 1986; letters from Alan Cullen, 1970-85 (10); correspondence with John Flavell Coales, partly about the history of radar, 1971, 1985 (3); a letter from Gillian Hughes [née Cockburn], daughter of Sir Robert Cockburn, with a brief description by Jack Ratcliffe of wartime anti-aircraft gun training at Petersham, 14 September 1984; postcards from Malcolm Charlton, 1979, 1986 (4); correspondence with David Croom, about international space projects, 1971, 1983 (3); correspondence with Geoffrey Cullwick, 1979-80 (4); a letter from Bob Clayton, 12 January 1980; correspondence with Charles Carter, partly about the money supply, 1972-8 (6); a letter from Lady Cockcroft [Elizabeth Cockcroft], Christmas 1976; correspondence with Ronald W. Clark, about his biography of Sir Edward Victor Appleton, 1970-2 (10); correspondence with James Gerald Crowther, about the Cavendish Laboratory, 1972-5 (6); a letter from Lady Curran [Joan Curran], about family news, 20 June 1970; correspondence with Sydney Chapman, 1970 (3); a telegram about Sydney Chapman's death, 1970; and a letter to his son, Cecil Chapman, 1 June 1970.
1 file.

1970–1986

Correspondence, D. Including letters from Marjorie Dibden, 1982-5 (4), and correspondence with Kenneth Dibden, 1966-82 (12); letters from Ann Buckler [née Ann Dee], about her father Philip Dee, 1983-5 (3), with a note about Philip Dee by Jack Ratcliffe and a copy of the former's obituary, 1983; correspondence with Philip Dee, 1975-82 (4), with a colour slide of his home in Scotland; a letter from Peggy Barnett, 18 December 1981; correspondence with Eric Dunford, about the magnetosphere, 1969-71 (3); correspondence with Robert Dalziel, 1967-9 (2); and correspondence with Norman de Bruyne, 1966-7 (4).
1 file.

1966–1985

Correspondence, E. Including a note by Jack Ratcliffe, about Karl George Emeleus, 1983; correspondence with Karl George Emeleus, partly about their time at Cambridge University, 1968-77 (8); correspondence with Lady Appleton [Helen Appleton], about her husband Sir Edward Victor Appleton's letters, 1975 (2); a letter from Lady Cockcroft [Elizabeth Cockcroft], 14 July 1971; and correspondence with Eric Eastwood, about his book "Radar Ornithology", 1967 (2).
1 file.

1966–1984

Correspondence, F. Including correspondence with Frank Farmer, partly about radio waves, 1974-5 (5); a letter from Norman Feather, about the death of his wife, Grace, 2 December 1975; correspondence with Jules Fejer, 1967-70 (6); correspondence with Grahame Fraser, about his research, 1966-70 (4); a letter from Lady Cockcroft [Elizabeth Cockcroft], 4 November 1969; letters to Herbert Friedman, 1969, 1975; correspondence with Ian Freeston, about his research, 1967-9 (4); correspondence with Sir Vivian Fuchs, about an ionospheric survey in the Antarctic, 1967 (2); correspondence with Robert Feilden [Geoffrey Bertram Robert Feilden], 1967 (2); and a letter from Tom Faber, about the Graduates' Science Club at Cambridge University, 28 November 1967.
1 file.

1967–1975

Correspondence, F. Including a letter from Peter Fellgett, about his scientific career, 8 April 1986; letters from Jules Fejer, about his retirement and his scientific career, 1981-5 (3); correspondence with Frank Farmer, about personal news, 1978-83 (8); and a letter from Arnold Wilkins, about his papers, 1 August 1977.
1 file.

1976–1986

Correspondence, G. Including letters from S. Gnanalingam, about his research, 1968-75 (11); letters from Geoffrey Grey, about personal news, 1966-75 (8); letters from Gerald Garratt, about the history of radio research, 1971-2 (6); correspondence with C. Stewart Gillmor, about his study of the history of ionospheric research, 1972 (2); correspondence with Zbigniew Godzinski, about his research on radio waves, 1966-73 (6); correspondence with Owen K. Garriott, partly about the Skylab 3 mission, 1969-73 (3); correspondence with Dennis Gabor, about his Nobel Prize, 1968-71 (3); correspondence with George Gainsborough, 1969-71 (2); a letter from Kenneth Budden, 24 May 1971; correspondence with Jack Goodier, about science teachers, 1967-72 (4); a letter from Sir Bernard Lovell, about science teachers, 23 March 1967; and correspondence with William Lancelot Francis, about science teachers, 1967 (2).
1 file.

1966–1975

Correspondence, G. Including letters from S. Gnanalingam, about his research, 1979-84 (5); a letter from Owen K. Garriott, about an experiment carried out during the Space Shuttle flight (STS-5), 6 December 1982; letters from Zbigniew Godzinski, about his scientific career, 1976-9 (7); correspondence with C. Stewart Gillmor, about Wilhelm Altar and Sir Edward Victor Appleton, 1976-9 (5), with a copy of a letter from C. Stewart Gillmor to Lady Appleton [Helen Appleton], 3 June 1976; and correspondence with Geoffrey Grey, about wartime radar, 1977-8 (3).
1 file.

1976–1985

Correspondence, H. Including letters from Sir Leonard Huxley, about personal news, 1972-84 (13); a letter from Harold Hopkins, about his scientific career, 2 August 1984; correspondence with Guy Hartcup, about his biography of Sir John Cockcroft, 1981 (2); letters from John Heading, 1975-8 (2); letters from James Stanley Hey, about personal news, 1978-9 (2); letters from Frederick Horner, about the future of the Appleton Laboratory at Slough, 1974-7 (2); correspondence with Colin O. Hines, about the Royal Society, 1970-7 (18); and a letter from Frank Halliday, about Giggleswick School, 8 December 1960.
1 file.

1960–1986

Correspondence, I. Mainly comprising correspondence with the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
1 file.

1976–1981

Correspondence, J. Including letters from Lady Jeffreys [Bertha Jeffreys], 1986 (2); and correspondence with R. V. Jones [Reginald Victor Jones], about the history of radar, 1966, 1977-82 (10).
1 file.

1966–1986

Correspondence with Jim [James Hargreaves], of Taylor & Hargreaves Ltd, Irwell Mill, Bacup, Lancashire. About personal news.
1 file.

1985–1986

Correspondence with Joan. About personal news.
1 file.

1982–1986

Correspondence, K. Including correspondence with Ray Kelleher, about his scientific career in Kenya, 1968-76 (28); correspondence with Joe King, about upper atmosphere winds, 1969-76 (10); correspondence with Desmond George King-Hele, partly about upper atmosphere winds, 1966-73 (6); correspondence with Peter Kapitza, about the Rutherford centenary celebrations,1972 (2); correspondence with Satish Ranjan Khastgir, about polarization of radio waves, 1966-70 (3); and correspondence with Nicholas Kurti, about physics education,1967 (3), with a copy of a letter from Nicholas Kurti to Sir Bernard Lovell, 7 June 1967.
1 file.

1966–1979

Correspondence, K. Including correspondence with Ray Kelleher, about personal news, 1981-5 (2); correspondence with Nicholas Kurti, about physics education, 1982 (2); and letters from Joe King, about his wedding, 1980-2 (2).
1 file.

1980–1985

Correspondence, L. Including a letter from Margaret Levy, about the Cavendish Laboratory, 30 October 1971; correspondence with John Wilfrid Linnett, about Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,1970-1 (3); correspondence with Wilfrid Bennett Lewis, partly about the Cavendish Laboratory, 1969-71 (5); correspondence with Sir Bernard Lovell, mainly about Sir Granville Beynon, 1966-70 (13); correspondence with T. Knox-Shaw [Thomas Knox-Shaw], about the Cavendish Laboratory, 1969 (2); correpondence with F. J. Lehany, about Jack Ratcliffe's Pawsey Memorial Lecture, 1966-7 (7); and correspondence with Frank Llewellyn-Jones, about the Physics Department at Swansea University, 1966-7 (5).
1 file.

1956–1971

Correspondence, L. Including letters from Frank Llewellyn-Jones, partly about the Physics Department at Swansea University, 1972-85 (9); correspondence with Sir Bernard Lovell, partly about Martin Ryle and partly about Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, and his wartime research, 1972-84 (7); and a letter from Wilfrid Bennett Lewis, 5 April 1982.
1 file.

1972–1985

Correspondence with Leslie James. About personal news.
1 file.

1974–1986

Correspondence, M. Including a letter from Leonard Harrison Matthews, about wartime radar research, 27 April 1982; correspondence with Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, about space research, 1982 (2), with an account by Massey of space research in the United Kingdom; a letter from Sir George Macfarlane, about his Glazebrook Medal, 4 March 1978; letters from William Reginald Dermot Manning, about Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1978 (2); correspondence with Ross Meadows, 1971 (3); and correspondence with Michael Mulkay, about the history of radio astronomy, 1971 (2).
1 file.

1962–1982

Correspondence, M. Including a letter from Ross Meadows, about Sidmouth, 16 August 1985; letters from Leonard Harrison Matthews, about wartime research, 1984 (2); and a letter from C. M. Minnis, about wartime radar research, 1 February 1983.
1 file.

1983–1986

Correspondence, N-O. Including correspondence with John Nisbet, about Art Waynick, 1971 (2); a letter from Sir Charles Oatley, about personal news, 8 September 1983; and letters from Mark Oliphant, partly about wartime research, 1975, 1984-5 (5).
1 file.

1967–1985

Correspondence, P. Including correspondence with Brian Pippard, 1969-71 (4); correspondence with Clive Parry, about his Tagore Lectures, 1971 (2); correspondence with D. Edgar Page, about space research, 1968-71 (5); and letters from Lenore Pawsey, about personal news, 1968-9 (2). With a copy of a petition in support of Rudi Dutschke, undated [1971].
1 file.

1962–1971

Correspondence, P. Including a letter from D. Edgar Page, about space research, 25 June 1979.
1 file.

1972–1986

Correspondence, R. Including a letter from Henry Rishbeth, 9 August 1977; correspondence with D. Freeman, about Albert Percival Rowe, 1977 (2); correspondence with Gordon Rogers, partly about the Cavendish Laboratory, 1973-6 (9); letters from Molly Rowe, mainly about her husband, Albert Percival Rowe, 1976 (4); correspondence with Sir Martin Ryle, about his Nobel Prize and about Jack Ratcliffe's Rutherford Lecture, 1965-6, 1974 (8); and letters from Albert Percival Rowe, partly about wartime radar research,1973-4 (4). With a copy of "From Scientific Idea to Practial Use" by Albert Percival Rowe, 1964.
1 file.

1964–1977

Correspondence, R. Including letters from Henry Rishbeth, 1981-6 (7); a letter from Rowena Ryle, about her husband, Sir Martin Ryle, 12 September 1985; a letter from Francis Graham Smith, about Sir Martin Ryle, 28 November 1984; a letter from David J. Rowe, about his scientific career, 23 January 1984; correspondence with Sir Martin Ryle, about his retirement, 1982 (2); a letter from Andrew Smart, with an enclosed note from Jack Ratcliffe about a wartime observation of anomalous propagation of radiowaves, 17 November 1981; letters from Molly Rowe, about her husband, Albert Percival Rowe, and wartime radar research,1980-1 (4); letters from Gordon Rogers, about his research, 1980 (2); and correspondence with Karl Rawer, about his Order of Merit, 1978 (2). With a copy of the address by Donald Parry at the memorial service for Sir Martin Ryle at Trumpington, 20 October 1984.
1 file.

1978–1986

Correspondence, S. Including a letter from Ramsay Shearman, about his Faraday Medal, 26 February 1986; letters from Ronald Stansfield, about wartime radar research, 1985-6 (2); a letter from B. W. Sargent, about Sir Frederick White, 17 June 1985; a letter from Lady Watson-Watt [Margaret Watson-Watt], about her husband, Sir Robert Watson-Watt, 2 December 1975; a letter from Sir Frederick White, about the death of David Martyn, 16 March 1970; and a letter from A. F. Wilkins, about a patent, 6 September 1968.
1 file.

1968–1986

Correspondence, T. Including letters from David Thomson, about Sidney Susssex College, Cambridge, 1965-70 (3); correspondence with Lance Thomas, about his ionospheric research, 1966-9 (7); letters from J. O. Thomas, 1969 (2); and correspondence with Peter Trier, 1966-9 (3). With copies of an obituary of Nevill Francis Mott by Jack Ratcliffe for publication in The Times, 1960, and letters from Arthur Mannering Tyndall, about the obituary, 1957, 1960 (2).
1 file.

1957–1970

Correspondence, T. Including correspondence with Lance Thomas, about his ionospheric research, 1971-85 (10); letters from Peter Trier, partly about his Glazebrook Medal, 1971-84 (4); and correspondence with J. O. Thomas, about space research, 1971-5 (11).
1 file.

1971–1985

Correspondence, U-V. Including letters from Colin O. Hines, 1975 (2); correspondence with Barry Uscinski, 1968 (2); letters from Kenneth Budden, about Barry Uscinski's paper on multiple scatter, 1966-7 (2); letters from Sir Arthur Vick, partly about Lady Cockcroft [Elizabeth Cockcroft], 1977-84 (3); correspondence with Mike Villard [Oswald Garrison Villard Jr.], about ionospheric research, 1969, 1977 (6); a letter from H. von Klüber, about the Cambridge Solar Research Station on Malta, 14 September 1967; and a letter from Donald G. Fraser, about a "Waves in Plasmas" conference, 18 September 1967.
1 file.

1966–1975

Correspondence, W. Including letters from Sir Frederick White, partly about the history of radar research and partly about personal news, 1977-86 (20); letters from Nancy Wilkins, mainly about her husband, Arnold Frederic Wilkins, 1985-6 (4); letters from Lillian Waynick, about personal news, 1983-5 (3); letters from Arnold Frederic Wilkins, mainly about wartime radar research, 1977, 1984-5 (5); and letters from Art Waynick, about his research, 1978-82 (5). With a copy of a review by Sir Frederick White of "Oliphant" by Stewart Cockburn and David Ellyard, 1984, and a copy of the commemoration oration by David Whitehead and the order of service of the memorial service of Hugh Colin Webster, 13 February 1980.
1 file.

1978–1986

Memoirs of Sir Edward Victor Appleton.
10 files.

1920–1966

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