IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 837
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Cowling, Thomas George (1906-1990)
Date(s): 1964-1981
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 2 folders
Name of creator(s): Cowling | Thomas George | 1906-1990 | mathematician and astrophysicist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1906; educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow; Brasenose College, Oxford; demonstrator, Imperial College; assistant lecturer in mathematics at Swansea (1933–1937); lecturer at Dundee (1937–1938); lecturer at Manchester (1938–1945); Professor of Mathematics at Bangor (1945–1948); Professor of Applied Mathematics at Leeds, (1948-1970); ); Fellow of the Royal Society (1947); died, 1990.
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Papers of Thomas George Cowling including correspondence with Neil Oscar Weiss, 1964-1989 and P A Gilman, 1980-1982.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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Open
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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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.