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CURLING, Claude Douglas (1923-1993)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP48

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: CURLING, Claude Douglas (1923-1993)

Date(s): 1923-1993

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5½ boxes

Name of creator(s): Curling | Claude Douglas | 1923-1993 | lecturer in physics

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 2 June 1923; Christ's College Cambridge, 1941-1943; MA, 1943; temporary Officer at the Admiralty Signal Establishment, Witley, 1943-1946; Honorary Scholar of Natural Science, Christ's College Cambridge, 1946-1950; Lecturer in Physics, King's College London, 1950; Sub-Dean of Natural Science, King's College London, 1969; Senior Lecturer, King's College London, 1972-1985; died 3 December 1993.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Claude Curling, 1923-1993, including correspondence, 1964-1985; correspondence and papers on electron microscopy, 1951-1969; typescript and manuscript papers by Curling,1946-1993; lecture transcripts and notes by Curling, 1946-1993; poems and songs by Claude Curling, 1974-1992; audiotapes and video tapes of Curling’s papers and lectures, 1977-1992 and booklets, articles and other publications by Curling.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As given in Scope and content.

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 supplied 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:

Collection level description. Box list available for the second accession.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in two accessions by Vera Curling, Claude Curling's wife, in February 1996 and 2007.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Cosmology | Astronomy
Science philosophy | Science of science
Scientific equipment | Equipment
Physics

Personal names
Curling | Claude Douglas | 1923-1993 | lecturer in physics

Corporate names
Amalgamated Society of Engineers

Places