| Title |
History of Science |
| Reference |
H1-H108 |
| Covering Dates |
1917–2000 |
| Extent and Medium |
paper |
|
| Content and context |
|
H1-H95 Scientists and mathematicians. Arranged alphabetically by scientist. For material re Sir Harold Jeffreys see A94-A186.
H96-H108 History of mathematics and science.
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| St John's Library/JeffreysB/H1-H108 contains: |
|
H1-H4
|
Sir Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965).
paper. |
1975–1997 |
|
H5
|
Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923). Includes copy of 'Hertha Ayrton: a persistent experimenter' by J. J. Tattersall and S.L. McMurran, Journal of Women's History vol. 7 (1995).
paper. |
1995–1996 |
|
H6
|
Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916). Information gathered in connection with G.I. Taylor.
paper. |
1993 |
|
H7-H14
|
Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900-1998).
paper. |
1960–1998 |
|
H15-H16
|
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995).
paper. |
1983–1996 |
|
H17
|
William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879). 'Exeter's Mathematican' by E.A. Power, 18pp duplicated typescript.
18p; paper. |
1917–1999 |
|
H18-H28
|
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-1984).
paper. |
1985–1997 |
|
H29
|
Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929-). Typescript autobiographical account with related correspondence.
12p; paper. |
1999 |
|
H30
|
Ralph Howard Fowler (1889-1944). Correspondence and papers chiefly re commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Fowler (1889). Also includes photocopies re Heisenberg in Cambridge.
paper. |
1986–1996 |
|
H31
|
Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod (1892-1969). 'From "small, dark and alive" to "crippingly shy": Dorothy Garrod as the first woman Professor at Cambridge' by P.J. Smith, 28pp and 19pp typescripts; related correspondence.
paper. |
1998–1999 |
|
H32-H38
|
John Arthur Gaunt (1904-1944).
paper. |
1948–1993 |
|
H39
|
George Green (1793-1841). Material assembled for bicentennial celebration of the birth of this mathematician and physicist.
paper. |
1993 |
|
H40-H40a
|
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947).
paper. |
1967–1985 |
|
H41-H55
|
Douglas Rayner Hartree (1897-1958).
paper. |
1929–1995 |
|
H56
|
Henry Ronald Hassé (1884-1955). Biographical information.
paper. |
1995 |
|
H57-H59
|
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976).
paper. |
1976–1997 |
|
H60-H66
|
Inge Lehmann (1888-1993).
paper. |
1934–1997 |
|
H67
|
Lise Meitner (1878-1968). Copy of letter from Sir Brian Pippard to Michael [?] re article on Meitner and O. Hahn (with copy of article).
paper. |
1992 |
|
H68-H69
|
Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950).
paper. |
1988–1998 |
|
H70
|
John Milne (1850-1913). Chiefly photocopied information and manuscript notes. See also H98, H99.
paper. |
1988 |
|
H71-H74
|
Barbara Mary Middlehurst (1915-1995).
paper. |
1987–1996 |
|
H75-H76
|
Andrija (1857-1936) and Stjepan Mohorovicic (1880-1980). Correspondence and biographical information on the Mohorovicics.
2 folders; paper. |
1917–1993 |
|
H77-H79
|
Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996).
paper. |
1995–1997 |
|
H80-H82
|
Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman (1897-1984).
paper. |
1995–1997 |
|
H83-H85
|
Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953).
paper. |
1967–1993 |
|
H86
|
Alfred Arthur Robb (1873-1936). Chiefly photocopied information re Robb.
paper. |
1991 |
|
H87-H88
|
Robert Schlapp (1899-1991).
paper. |
1991–1993 |
|
H89-H91
|
Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931).
paper. |
1974–1993 |
|
H92
|
Robert Stoneley (1894-1976). Typescript draft and proof of Jeffreys's reminiscences. Jeffreys wrote reminiscences of Stoneley for Geophys. J. Int. (1994).
paper. |
1994 |
|
H93
|
Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas (1903-1992). Correspondence re Thomas; copy of obituary.
paper. |
1995 |
|
H93a
|
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940). Includes '...reminiscences of Bertha Swirles who married Harold Jeffreys in 1940' for Centenary celebrations (of his discovery of the electron) 1997, and photograph of Jeffreys from the occasion.
paper. |
1997–2000 |
|
H94
|
Olga Taussky-Todd (1906-1995). Correspondence re Tausky-Todd; obituaries.
paper. |
1995–1997 |
|
H95
|
Dorothy M. Wrinch (1894-1976). Correspondence re obituary and subsequent reminiscences; obituaries; photocopies of biographical information. Dorothy Wrinch collaborated with Sir Harold Jeffreys on papers on the theory of the scientific method 1919-1923.
paper. |
1976–1998 |
|
H96
|
'Mathematical Congresses'. Contents of Jeffreys's folder so inscribed: miscellaneous photocopied typescript and manuscript notes on early International Mathematical Congresses.
paper. |
1984 |
|
H97
|
'N.H. Abel etc'. Contents of Jeffreys's folder so labelled: correspondence and manuscript notes.
paper. |
1984 |
|
H98-H99
|
'Darius A.A. Hughes Wartnaby'.
paper. |
1988 |
|
H100
|
'International Conference on Physics 1934'. Contents of Jeffreys's envelope so labelled: correspondence, photocopies and manuscript notes re 1934 conference.
paper. |
1993 |
|
H101
|
'Fermat's Last Theorem'. Contents of Jeffreys's envelope so labelled: newspaper cuttings and photocopies re proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
paper. |
1993 |
|
H102-H104
|
'Mathematical Gazette'.
paper. |
1944–1996 |
|
H105
|
'Huppert (Geophysics in Cambridge. Summer School 1997)'. Manuscript notes, print-out from summer school programme.
paper. |
1997 |
|
H106
|
'Tommy's Voice' by Alba Lalitha Ramaswamy. Unpublished account of physics at Cambridge from James Clerk Maxwell onwards, January 1998. 'Tommy' was the term given to laboratory technicians at the Cavendish. The account is largely drawn from the recollections of one former laboratory techncian.
paper. |
1998 |
|
H107
|
Miscellaneous correspondence re history of science.
paper. |
1994 |
|
H108
|
Copies of articles by D.O. Forfar.
paper. |
1980–2000 |
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