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Archive Accessions 2011 Nobel Prize Diploma Awarded to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) Archive Accessions 2011 Nobel Prize diploma awarded to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994). Illustrated by Elsa Noreen and with calligraphy by Kerstin Anckers. The prize for chemistry was won by Hodgkin in 1964. 1 item in a leather presentation wallet. Presented 10 March 2011. Photograph albums compiled using original prints by Brevet Colonel Albert Ernest Hamerton (1873-1955), documenting the Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission, Uganda, 1908-1910. 2 albums. Presented 11 March 2011. Letter from James Tisdall to Sir Robert Southwell FRS (1635-1702) on financial matters regarding the construction of a fort near Kinsale. Ireland. 1 item. Purchased 24 March 2011. Personal papers of Alec Bangham FRS (1921-2010), biochemist, including correspondence and papers on Liposome research, 1950s-2010. 29 boxes. Presented 3 April 2011. Scientific notebooks of David Tabor FRS (1913-2005) materials scientist and pioneer of tribology. Includes work on friction, rolling bearings and indentation and scratch hardness of steels. c.1929-1954. 4 notebooks and 1 file. Presented, 12 April 2011. Additional papers of Professor Gustav Victor Rudolph Born FRS (b.1921) pharmacologist. 1950s-2000s. 17 boxes. Presented 20 April 2011. 2010 Letters of Dr Edward Bancroft FRS (1744-1821) 1773 and nd..3 letters. Purchased April 2010. Letters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Duke of Aubigny FRS (!701-1750), to Martin Folkes FRS (1690-1754), President of the Royal Society. Personal and scientific letters including material on Royal Society business, notably elections. Contains material on the hydra experiments of Abraham Trembley FRS (1710-1784).1725-1744, 36 items. Presented 20 May 2010. Royal Society correspondence on the establishment and work of the Academic Assistance Council, 1933- 1950. Original material lent to Sir William Beveridge (1879-1950) [later Lord Beveridge] for the production of his book A defence of free learning (1959). 2 files, returned from the Beveridge papers, London School of Economics, 26 May 2010. Papers of Sir [Alfred Charles] Bernard Lovell FRS.. Diaries kept during the construction of the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope with bound volume of letters of congratulation from various correspondents following his election to the Royal Society 2 boxes. Presented May 2010. Some papers of Alexander Oliver Rankine FRS (1881-1956) including research on sound transmission by light and work on FIDO investigations for airfield fog clearance. With letters of William Henry Bragg FRS (1862- 1942) and several associated artefacts. 1915-1945.1 box. Presented 6 July 2010. Dictionaries of Laplace Transforms and Conformal Representations produced by the Admiralty Computing Service, 1944-1948. Includes the work of Arthur Erdelyi FRS (1908-1977). 9 files. Presented 30 July 2010. Thesis by Brian Richard John Thomas ‘Studies in the fluorination of some halogen containing polymers’ for the degree of DPhil at Birmingham University under the supervision of Professor Walter Norman Haworth FRS (1883-1950), October 1946. 1 volume. Presented 4 December 2010. 2009 Scientific papers of Professor Gustav Victor Rudolph Born FRS (b.1921), pharmacologist, including laboratory notebooks, manuscripts of published papers and slides. 30 boxes 1952-1997. March 2009 Photographs of Otto Loewi FRS (1873-1961), pharmacologist. Portraits from childhood to old age, including two prints by Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990). 4 items c.1875-c.1960. 6 May 2009. Letter from Captain Henry Kater FRS (1777-1835) physicist, to Davies Gilbert. 1 item, 8 August 1821. July 2009. Letters from Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), 1st Baroness Burdett Coutts, to William Pengelly FRS (1812-1894) geologist. 16 letters 1857-1885. July 2009. Correspondence of Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS (1903-1983), palaeobotanist with Professor Arbo Hoeg (1898-1993). 2 files 1951-1975. Transferred from Personal Information Files, 25 September 2009. Corrected typescript of the article “The growth of thought in society” by Michael Polanyi FRS (1891-1976), physical chemist and philosopher. Published in Economica. Manuscript 45p., 1941. Transferred from Personal Information Files, 25 September 2009. Some papers of Keith Dalziel FRS (1921-1996) biochemist. 2 boxes and 4 files, largely undated but 1940s- 1980s. 8 September 2009. International papers of Sir Robert Brian Heap FRS (b.1935) relating to activities undertaken on behalf of the Royal Society as Foreign Secretary. 68 files, 1995-2003. September 2009. Some papers of Sir James Baddiley FRS (1918-2008) microbiologist, including personal notes, books and theses. 1 box, 1940-2008. October 2009. Papers of Professor John (Jack) Wyrill Christian FRS (1926-2001) metallurgist, including laboratory notebooks and diaries. 30 boxes,1946-2001. November 2009. Some papers of Professor James Philip Elliott FRS (1929-2008) nuclear physicist, including lecture notes and papers. 11 boxes, 1950s-1990s. December 2009. 2008 Correspondence between John Henry Gaddum FRS (1900-1965), physiologist, and Maurice M. Rapport on serotonin. 3 items. 24 August-26 October 1951. 8 March 2008. Scientific illustrations (drawings and electron microscope images) by Alistair Graham FRS (1906-2000), Elizabeth Graham (nee Andrews), Vera Fretter and others. Largely shells and molluscs. 1 portfolio, 1940s- 1990s. May 2008. Manuscript treatise, Opuscule de philosophie physique ou noveaux elementa sur la cohesion la chaleur et l'electricite, suivis de notions de meteorologie' by Daniel Paret. 136p.1894. Presented by the author and transferred from the Society's printed books collection, 24 June 2008. Letter from John Robertson FRS (1712-1776) to the bookseller John Nourse (c.1705-1780). 1 item, 27 July 1755. September 2008. Field notebooks, correspondence (including with the Royal Society), photographs and other records of the 1967-69 scientific expedition to Mato Grosso, Brazil. Personal papers of expedition leader Dr Iain Bishop. 6 boxes, 1960s. 5 September 2008. 2 Original and copy letters of Albert Einstein Foreign Member RS (1879-1955), 3 items 1924-28 with letters of Sir Karl Popper FRS (1902-1994) 2 items 1978-1982 to the Salaman family. 5 items in total. October 2008. 2007 Papers of James Andrew Grant (1935-1990) relating to the 1965 Royal Society scientific expedition to the Solomon Islands and to subsequent work in Australia.7 boxes, 1960s-1970s. 2 March 2007. Letter by Robert Were Fox FRS (1789-1877) to an unknown correspondent [Michael Faraday?]. 1 item 30 October 1840. 26 March 2007. Photographs taken by Lola Walker for the Festival of Britain: of the Royal Society at Burlington House, the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Kelvin Hall Industrial Exhibition, Glasgow. 6 items, 1950-1951. 30 March 2007. Letter by Charles [Karl Ludwig Christian] Rumker, Foreign Member RS (1788-1862) to Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society. 1 item 5 March 1830. 4 May 2007. Collected papers of Robert Hanbury Brown FRS (1916-2002), physicist, astronomer and pioneer of radar. 40 boxes, 1930s-2002. 8 May 2007. Correspondence of Charles Hatchett FRS (1765-1847) chemist. 200 items 1795-1837. 7 September 2007. Working papers accumulated by Bryan Clarke FRS during the composition of Royal Society Biographical Memoirs of Edmund Brisco Ford FRS (1901-1988) and Arthur James Cain FRS (1921-1999). 9 files, 1988- 2006. 24 October 2007. Additional papers of Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood OM FRS (1897-1967) including his final written letter. 1 box, 1953-1967. 30 November 2007 Collected papers of Sir John Robert Vane (1927-2004), pharmacologist and Nobel Prize-winner. 277 files 1973-2004. 12 December 2007. Scientific notebooks of Brebis Bleaney FRS (1915-2006) physicist. 2 boxes 1987-2002. 12 December 2007. 2006 Collected papers of Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS (1923-2004), chemist and pioneer of artificial intelligence. Including correspondence, lecture notes and papers, with diaries. 12 boxes, 1950s-2004. 4 January 2006. Photograph albums recording Royal Society overseas visits undertaken by Sir Harry Gerard Thornton (1892- 1977) in part while Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. Including visits to the Soviet Union, Israel and India. 5 albums, 1952-1956. February 2006. Working papers of Lord May of Oxford FRS (1936-), UK Government Chief Scientist and zoologist, President of the Royal Society 2000-2005. Including research paper and publications files with correspondence. 33 boxes, 1980s-2000s. 27 March 2006. Hooke folio. Notes taken by Robert Hooke FRS (1635-1703) after going through the draft notes of his predecessor as Secretary, Henry Oldenburg FRS (c1617-1677). Remaining pages are notes taken by Hooke as Secretary attending the Society meetings. March 2006. Collected papers of Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS (1937-2006), climate scientist and palaeoceanographer. 44 boxes 1950s-2000s. May 2006. 3 Additional papers of Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS (1923-2004). Including family letters, correspondence with Freeman John Dyson FRS (b.1923), Richard Langton Gregory FRS (b.1923) and others, with photographs slides and sound recordings. 2 boxes, 1940s-2004. 12 October 2006. Working papers of Sir Eric James Denton FRS (1923-2007), Director of the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth and physiologist. 6 boxes, 1970s-2007. 31 December 2006. 2005 Watercolours by Fellows of the Royal Society, including botanical studies by Arthur Harry Church FRS (1865- 1937) and Georg Dionysius Ehret FRS (1710-1770). 11 items, 18th-20th century. May 2005. Copy correspondence between Denis Papin FRS (1647?-1712) and G W von Leibnitz FRS (1646-1716) with later supporting letters of R B Prosser and others. 1 volume, 1692-1707 [1851 copy]. 6 June 2005. Letters relating to Heinz Otto Schild FRS (1906-1984) including material on Schild's wartime internment on the Isle of Man and the Royal Society's role in freeing him. 29 items, 1932-1969. 26 July 2005. Collected papers of Thomas Gold FRS (1920-2004) astronomer, 1940s-2004, including correspondence files and letter-books relating to his work at Cornell University and for NASA. 12 boxes. 30 August 2005. Letters of the astrophysicist Professor Thomas George Cowling FRS (1906-2003) to Professor N O Weiss FRS and to Dr Peter Gilman at the High Altitude Observatory at Boulder, Colorado.
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