GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP174 - MASON, Professor Stephen Finney (1923-2007)

46 boxes or 15 linear metres

GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP174 [1859-2007] Collection (fonds) 46 boxes or 15 linear metres Mason , Stephen Finney , 1923-2007 , Professor of Chemistry

Born, 1923; educated, Wyggeston Grammar School; Wadham College, Oxford; BA, 1945; D Phil, 1947; college tutorship at Wadham College, Oxford, [1947-1953]; departmental demonstrator, Museum for the History of Science, Oxford, 1947-1953; Fellow of the Australian National Laboratory; Charles Coulson's Summer Schools in Theoretical Chemistry, 1955; Lecturer in Physical Organic Chemistry, University of Exeter, 1956; Reader, 1963; foundation chair of Chemistry at the University of East Anglia, 1964-1970; Kings College London, 1970-1988; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1982; extraordinary Fellowship at Wolfson College, 1988-1990; died, 2007.

Publications:

A History of the Sciences (1956)

Molecular Optical Activity and the Chiral Discriminations (1982)

Chemical Evolution: Origins of the Elements, Molecules and Living Systems (1991)

Received from the family, Apr 2008.

Private papers of Professor Stephen Finney Mason, [1859-2007], including published articles and reprints by Mason, [1945-1990]; articles and photocopies of articles by others on Mason’s research interests, [1859-2000]; lectures given by Mason; research notes and correspondence, including correspondence about scientists and historians including Professor Reiko Kuroda, Dr Robert Davis Peacock, Professor Mike Lappert, Professor Anthony James McCaffery, Dr George Tranter, Dr M P Melrose, Dr Tom Ziegler, Professor Martin Quack, Professor David Parker, Keith Hutcheon and Dr Jack Morrell.

Original order.

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

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.

English

No additional finding aids.

Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: http://www.rsc.org/Membership/AboutRscMembership/Obituaries/SMason.asp

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.

Nov 2008 Chemistry Science of science History of science Mason , Stephen Finney , 1923-2007 , Professor of Chemistry King's College London

Received from the family, Apr 2008.

Private papers of Professor Stephen Finney Mason, [1859-2007], including published articles and reprints by Mason, [1945-1990]; articles and photocopies of articles by others on Mason’s research interests, [1859-2000]; lectures given by Mason; research notes and correspondence, including correspondence about scientists and historians including Professor Reiko Kuroda, Dr Robert Davis Peacock, Professor Mike Lappert, Professor Anthony James McCaffery, Dr George Tranter, Dr M P Melrose, Dr Tom Ziegler, Professor Martin Quack, Professor David Parker, Keith Hutcheon and Dr Jack Morrell.

Original order.

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

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.

• English

• Latin

English

No additional finding aids.

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.

• English