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Total number of records: 803

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Books and printed items76

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Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society14
Brotherton Collection8
Leeds Russian Archive4
Herbert Read Collection3
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive2
Medical Collections2

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physics803
mechanics10
hydrodynamics8
astronomy5
chemistry4
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lighthouses4
mathematical physics4
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Young, Thomas (1773-1829)8
Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862)6
Hauy, Rene Just (1743-1822)6
Kelland, Philip6
Kelland, Philip (1808-1879)6
Brewster, David4
Brewster, Sir David (1781-1868)4
Coulson, Alfred4
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Gregory, Olinthus (1774-1841)4

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Archive Collection

Richard Whiddington correspondence and papers

Whiddington, Professor Richard - University of Leeds School of Physics (1885-1970)

1907-1963

Comprises broadly: (1) Biographical material; (2) Manuscript notes for lectures Whiddington attended at Cambridge including those given by G. F. C. Searle and C. T. R. Wilson, 1907-1908; (3) Manuscrip...

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Bragg Family Collection

Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862-1942); Bragg, Sir William Lawrence (1890-1971)

1912-1977

Contains the notebook of experiments made in connection with research on X-rays and the molecular structure of crystals, carried out by Sir William Henry Bragg and his son, Sir (William) Lawrence Brag...

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Papers and correspondence of Edmund Clifton Stoner, 1899-1968

Stoner, Edmund Clifton (1899-1968)

1909-1969

During his retirement Stoner organised and selected his papers, intending to write an autobiography. The material thus consists of Stoner's own compilation of biographical material, with many of his o...

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Additional papers of Edmund Clifton Stoner

Stoner, Edmund Clifton (1899-1968)

1925-1961

The first collection of the papers of Professor Edmund Clifton Stoner, FRS (1899-1968), professor of Physics at the University of Leeds from 1939 to 1963, was most kindly presented to the Library by h...

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D. Lectures, addresses and publications

1939-1957

D.1 - D.29 Lectures, addresses. D.30 - D.58 Publications

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E. Professional correspondence

1934-1958

These files comprise Astbury's correspondence with scientific colleagues in universities, research laboratories, industrial or manufacturing firms, and also with Trusts and Foundations giving financia...

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F. Conferences

1945-1956

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Archive Series

I. Biographical

1909-1968

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