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Hartridge, Hamilton (1886-1976)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 715

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Hartridge, Hamilton (1886-1976)

Date(s): 20th century

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Hartridge | Hamilton | 1886-1976 | physiologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Professor Hartridge was a physiologist who made important contributions to knowledge of the mechanisms of hearing and sight as well as inventing apparatus, especially optical apparatus. He worked in the Physiology Department at Cambridge until 1927, then as Professor of Physiology at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School 1927-1947 and as Director of an MRC Unit at the Institute of Opthalmology 1947-1951. For further details see Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society vol 23, 1977, pp 193-211.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'A method in spectrometry' by Hamilton Hartridge with biographical and career details of Hartridge in the front of volume.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Paper, bound, typescript.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


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Subjects
Physiology

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Hartridge | Hamilton | 1886-1976 | physiologist

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