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Sagnac, Georges Marc Marie (1869-1928)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4332-4334

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Sagnac, Georges Marc Marie (1869-1928)

Date(s): 1897-1921

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 volumes

Name of creator(s): Sagnac | Georges Marc Marie | 1869-1928 | radiologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The author collaborated with Pierre Curie on radiology in 1902, and discovered corpuscular (electronic) secondary radiation.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Georges Marc Marie Sagnac including holograph papers relating to Roentgen Rays, experiments on sulphur, on optics, light- and sound-waves, and on the ether, 1897-1921.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

3 folders. v.s. Unbound.

Finding aids:

Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1932.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Optical instruments | Scientific equipment | Equipment
Radiology | Medical sciences
Sulphur | Chemical elements
X-rays | Electromagnetic waves | Magnetism
Physics

Personal names
Sagnac | Georges Marc Marie | 1869-1928 | radiologist

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