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Laird Gordon Lindsay Ward miscellaneous materials

 Collection
Identifier: GB07-057

Scope and content

Collection includes: Reprint of Lord Rutherford's Recorded Lecture at Gottingen, Ronald K. Smeltzer, 1997, 2 typed pages titled Two Earlier Lives, Photocopy of The Transmutation of the Atom by Lord Rutherford of Nelson 1933, 5 photopcoy pages of letters exchanged between Archibald MacDiarmid and Lord and Lady Rutherford, 1992 Program and Abstracts from Inorganic Anoranies 92, Booklet titled The Chemical Society Invites You, n.d., By-Laws of the Chemical Society booklet, 1954.

Dates

  • Creation: 1954

Creator

Language of Materials

Text in English.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (7 items)

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Ward, Laird. Method of acquisition--gift ;; Date of acquisition--2007..

General Note

This collection consists of miscellaneous material, some of it from the Chemical Society, some of it photocopies of letters and reprints by eminent chemists collected by Laird Ward. The photocopies of handwritten letters include items by Archie MacDiarmid, and Ernest Rutherford. There are also reprints by and about Rutherford. The Chemical Society material is a set a By-Laws dated 1954 and a Chemical Society Fellowships brochure dated 1962.

Description rules
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Repository Details

Part of the Science History Institute Archives Repository

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