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Thomson, Sir Joseph John (1856-1940)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 736

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Thomson, Sir Joseph John (1856-1940)

Date(s): 1906-1907

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Thomson | Sir | Joseph John | 1856-1940 | Knight | physicist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1856; Education: Owen's College, Manchester; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1880); Career: Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge; Profesor of Natural Philosophy, Royal Institution, London; Cavendish Professor of Physics, Cambridge (1884-1918); Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1918); Fellow of the Royal Society, 1884; died, 1940.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes on a series of lectures given by Joseph John Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory, October 1906 to December 1907.

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 notebook

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Physics

Personal names
Thomson | Sir | Joseph John | 1856-1940 | Knight | physicist

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