IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP33
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: WILKINSON, Professor George Randall (1927-1989)
Date(s): Created [1949]-1988
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 20 boxes or 0.2m3, 4 boxes of slides
Name of creator(s): Wilkinson | George Randall | 1927-1989 | Professor of Physics
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1927; educated Colwyn Bay Grammar School, 1939-1946; National Service with the RAF, 1947-1949; Degree student at King's College London, 1949-1952; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research studentship, 1952-1956; Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Research Fellow, 1956; Assistant Lecturer, 1958-1959, Lecturer, 1959-1963, Reader, 1963-1971 and Professor, 1971-[1984], of Physics, King's College London; retired [1984]; Emeritus Professor of Physics, 1984-1989; died 1989.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, [1949]-1988, mainly relating to the teaching of physics at King's College, London, notably teaching notes, handouts and offprints of articles for use in lectures and tutorials, on subjects including Raman Spectroscopy, Microwave and Physics Frequency Spectroscopy, Solid State Physics, Hydrograph Bonding, and Modern Physics, [1950-1986]; two copies of the King's College London Physics Department Second Year Laboratory Manual; correspondence relating to references provided by Wilkinson [for his students], 1979-1988; notes, correspondence and papers relating to physics and chemistry syllabi, [1964-1971], including proposals for physics teaching; papers, [1949]-1969, on examination of students of chemistry and physics, including King's College and University of London exam papers, [1949-1966], and examples of physics exam questions at other London colleges, 1964; agenda, minutes and reports of King's College and Queen Elizabeth College Physics Department Staff Meetings, [1981-1987]; reports of the Development Planning Committee, 1969-1971; Annual Reports of the Physics Department Spectroscopy Group, 1959-1960 and 1962-1966. Papers relating to research funding, notably reports by Wilkinson on research proposals submitted to the Science Research Council, [1973], [1978], and [1981-1986]; files of correspondence and papers relating to Wilkinson's PhD students, notably David Meade and K J Dean, 1978-1985; papers relating to Science Research Council grants made to Wilkinson, [1950-1989]. Named files, containing correspondence, drawings, photographs and papers on various scientific subjects, especially relating to Raman Spectroscopy, largely containing offprints of articles by Wilkinson and others, [1960-1980]. Files of correspondence and papers relating to academic papers and articles written by Wilkinson, including a speech to the Indian Raman Conference; an article with W F Sherman and J S Budenheimer on 'High pressure studies on Hexamethyl Benzene'; the 'Chinese University Development Project Panel and Commission Report on solid state spectroscopy in physics at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China', May 1985; correspondence and proofs relating to a chapter by Wilkinson and W F Sherman on Raman Spectroscopy; correspondence with the Reverend Stanley H Williams concerning a proposed biography of W E Williams; correspondence with Pergamon Press relating to a new edition of the Encyclopedia of Physics. Papers, notes and drawings relating to scientific equipment, including a Dovesbury Synchrocyclotron, 1980-1981, a Spex Laser, 1978, a Carey 81 Laser, and an Ionised Argon Laser, 1954 and 1967. Personal files include information regarding Professor Sir John Randall, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at King's College, [1984], correspondence and papers relating to the Perkin Elmer Prize, 1987, copies of book reviews by Wilkinson, and a list of his papers published before 1978. The collection also contains 4 boxes of glass slides showing sample spectra.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The papers remain in named subject files created by Wilkinson.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
This collection level description available online, detailed handlist available in hard copy in the College Archive reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Department of Chemistry, King's College London, 1989.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2000