MASON, Professor Stephen Finney (1923-2007)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP174
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: MASON, Professor Stephen Finney (1923-2007)
Date(s)	: [1859-2007]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 46 boxes or 15 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Mason | Stephen Finney | 1923-2007 | Professor of Chemistry

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1923; educated, Wyggeston Grammar School; Wadham College, Oxford; BA, 1945; D Phil, 1947; college tutorship at Wadham College, Oxford, [1947-1953]; departmental demonstrator, Museum for the History of Science, Oxford, 1947-1953; Fellow of the Australian National Laboratory; Charles Coulson's Summer Schools in Theoretical Chemistry, 1955; Lecturer in Physical Organic Chemistry, University of Exeter, 1956; Reader, 1963; foundation chair of Chemistry at the University of East Anglia, 1964-1970; Kings College London, 1970-1988; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1982; extraordinary Fellowship at Wolfson College, 1988-1990; died, 2007.

Publications:
A History of the Sciences (1956)
Molecular Optical Activity and the Chiral Discriminations (1982)
Chemical Evolution: Origins of the Elements, Molecules and Living Systems (1991)

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Private papers of Professor Stephen Finney Mason, [1859-2007], including published articles and reprints by Mason, [1945-1990]; articles and photocopies of articles by others on Mason’s research interests, [1859-2000]; lectures given by Mason; research notes and correspondence, including correspondence about scientists and historians including Professor Reiko Kuroda, Dr Robert Davis Peacock, Professor Mike Lappert, Professor Anthony James McCaffery, Dr George Tranter, Dr M P Melrose, Dr Tom Ziegler, Professor Martin Quack, Professor David Parker, Keith Hutcheon and Dr Jack Morrell.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Original order.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

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 and Information Management, King's College London.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received from the family, Apr 2008.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: http://www.rsc.org/Membership/AboutRscMembership/Obituaries/SMason.asp

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with 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:
Nov 2008