IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 2107 Allibone
Held at: City University
Title: ALLIBONE, Professor Thomas Edward (1903-)
Date(s): 1934-1979
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box file
Name of creator(s): Allibone | Thomas Edward | b1903 | physicist and electrical engineer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1903; educated Central School Sheffield (Birley Scholar); Sheffield University (Linley Scholar); Gonville and Caius College Cambridge (Wollaston Scholar); PhD Sheffield; PhD Cambridge; 1851 Exhibition Student, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1926-1930; High-Voltage Laboratory, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Manchester, 1930-1946; Member, British Mission on Atomic Energy, Berkeley, California and Oakridge, Tennessee, 1944-45; Director, Laboratory, Associated Electrical Industries (AEI), Aldermaston, 1946-1963; elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1948; Scientific Adviser, AEI, 1963; Chief Scientist, Central Electricity Generating Board, 1963-1970; External Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, 1967-1979; Visiting Professor of Physics, City University, since 1971; Robert Kitchin (Saddlers) Research Professor, since 1983, and first Frank Poynton Professor, Physics Department, since 1984, City University.
Publications: The Release and Use of Nuclear Energy (1961); Rutherford: Father of Nuclear Energy (Rutherford Lecture 1972, published 1973); The Royal Society and its Dining Clubs (1975); Lightning: the long spark (1977); Cockcroft and the Atom (1983); Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. and the Cavendish Laboratory (1984); The Making of Physicists (1987); Philately and the Royal Society (1990); papers on high voltage and transient electrical phenomena, fission and fusion.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Reprints of papers of Professor T E Allibone, describing his research, 1934-1979.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English.
System of arrangement:
The papers are stored with the Department of Physics research reports, 1966-1985.
Conditions governing access:
On written application to the University Librarian.
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the University Librarian.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Accumulated through the Department of Physics, City University.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project, based on survey information by Janet Foster. Source: Who's Who.
Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2001