GB 2107 Allibone - ALLIBONE, Professor Thomas Edward (1903-)

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GB 2107 Allibone 1934-1979 Collection (fonds) 1 box file Allibone , Thomas Edward , b1903 , physicist and electrical engineer
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.

Accumulated through the Department of Physics, City University.

Reprints of papers of Professor T E Allibone, describing his research, 1934-1979.

The papers are stored with the Department of Physics research reports, 1966-1985.

On written application to the University Librarian.

At the discretion of the University Librarian.
English.

Compiled by Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project, based on survey information by Janet Foster. Source: Who's Who. 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. Mar 2001 Allibone , Thomas Edward , b 1903 , physicist and electrical engineer City University Electricity Northampton College of Advanced Technology Northampton Polytechnic Northampton Polytechnic Institute Physics

Accumulated through the Department of Physics, City University.

Reprints of papers of Professor T E Allibone, describing his research, 1934-1979.

The papers are stored with the Department of Physics research reports, 1966-1985.

On written application to the University Librarian.

At the discretion of the University Librarian.

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English.

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.

• Engels