SHEARING, Edwin Albert (b 1915)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP11
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	: SHEARING, Edwin Albert (b 1915)
Date(s)	: Created 1937-1953
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Shearing | Edwin Albert | b 1915

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 4 July 1915; BSc, Chemistry and Physics, King's College London, 1933-1935; PhD, Organic Chemistry, King's College London, 1935-1938; worked for ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Personal correspondence, 1937-1952, between Shearing and Samuel Smiles, Daniell Professor of Chemistry at King's College London, relating to the publication of Shearing's research, and Shearing's work and career; letters, 1938, from Arthur John Allmand, Daniell Professor of Chemistry at King's College London, requesting information on Shearing's career and the Samuel Smiles Prize Fund; 'Report of the Samuel Smiles Prize and Presentation Fund Committee', [1939]; dinner menu and photographs of a chemists' gathering at the Waldorf Hotel, London, 1937.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College, London.

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Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Dr Shearing in 1983.

Allied Materials

Related material:

King's College London Archives also holds papers relating to chemistry reunions and contacts with former chemistry students of King's College London (Ref: KDCH/SP1-4).

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2000