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BURGE, Ronald Edgar (b 1932)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP099

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: BURGE, Ronald Edgar (b 1932)

Date(s): 1925-1997

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 11 boxes or 0.11 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Burge | Ronald Edgar | b 1932 | Professor of Physics

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1932; student at King's College London, 1950-1957; Assistant lecturer and later lecturer in Physics, King's College London, 1954-1962; Reader in Biophysics, 1962-1963; Head of Department of Physics, Queen Elizabeth College, 1963-1984; Head of Department of Physics, King's College London, 1984-1992; Vice-Principal, King's College London, 1988-1992.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Ronald Burge as Head of Physics at Queen Elizabeth College, 1963-1984 and at King's College London, 1984-1992, including papers relating to research projects including correspondence, proposals, grant application forms, and reports notably for the projects 'In-process monitoring of element composition and derived properties of polymeric materials by remote laser microanalysis' under the European Research and Development Programme on Manufacturing Technologies and Advanced Materials, 1989-1993 and the Esprit, (EU information technologies programme) project No 1007, (study on laser plasma), 1986-1993. Papers, 1942-[1990] relating to the history of the Physics Department at King's College London and in particular James Clark Maxwell and Charles Wheatstone including correspondence, copies of photographs, press cuttings and articles, papers relating to exhibitions, booklet entitled 'Some notes on the original investigations carried out by members of the departments of Natural Philosophy and Physics in King's College', [1925] and photographs including of physics equipment, members of staff, a construction site and uncaptioned group photographs, presumably of members of the KCL Physics department, [1985-1990]. Papers relating to memorials including transcript of a lecture given by Burge on his career, 'Imaging and diffraction (and people) at King's College London, 1950-1997', 1 Oct 1997; booklet containing reminiscences of John Yudkin, nutritionist at Queen Elizabeth College, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, Nov 1990; copy of the Royal Institution Discourse, given by Burge, Feb 1992; papers relating to memorial services for King's College London academics including Claude Curling and William Charles Price and further papers relating to Price including biographies, obituaries, correspondence, bibliography and copies of photographs. Papers relating to Queen Elizabeth College including report of a committee set up to investigate the non-medical side of Queen Elizabeth College, Jan 1981; paper on the academic future of Queen Elizabeth College, 17 Dec 1981 and prospectus for the Queen Elizabeth College medical physics department, [1978]. Paper on technicalities of merging the physics departments of Queen Elizabeth College and King's College London, 11 Jun 1984. List of grants awarded to the physics department of Queen Elizabeth College, 11 Nov 1981. Correspondence relating to the Granville Prize in physics, 1992. Bibliography of publications by Burge, 1955-1989. Audio reels containing lectures given by Burge, 22 Sep 1969 and 14 Feb 1985.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in the original order: boxes 1-8 contain papers relating to research projects, boxes 9-11 contain the remaining papers.

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Professor Burge, 1997.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Papers of Queen Elizabeth College (ref:GB 0100 KCLCA KCHSS, QAB, QA/CC, QAP, QAL, QA/C/M, QA/CS/M, QA/F/M, QA/FS/M, QA/AB/M, QA/TC/M, QA/CB/M, QA/LC/M, QA/AM/M, QA/TF/M, QA/OC/M, QA/HC/M, QA/MP, Q/AUT, 1989/QAR, QAS, QA/T, QA/L, QA/J, QA/CB, QA/PCB, QA/WB, QA/SAB, QA/SFB, QA/ACC, QAF, QA/FP, QA/RC)
King's College London Department of Physics Records (ref:KDPY/F; 1984/KDPY; 1990/KDPY; 1998/KDPY)
Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone (ref: WHEATSTONE)
papers of Professor James Clerk Maxwell (ref: K/PP71)

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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: Jan 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Higher education | Educational levels
Physics education | Science education
Plasma physics | Nuclear physics | Physics

Personal names
Burge | Ronald Edgar | b 1932 | Professor of Physics
Curling | Claude Douglas | 1923-1993 | lecturer in physics
Price | William Charles | 1909-1993 | professor | physicist and spectroscopist
Yudkin | John | 1910-1995 | professor | nutritionist

Corporate names
King's College London | Department of Physics
Queen Elizabeth College | Department of Physics

Places