Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

20th Century Scientists' papers


Introduction

Papers of modern scientists held at the Bodleian Library were catalogued by the NCUACS (National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists) in Bath. The catalogues are available on-line through the National Archives A2A (Access to Archives) web site.

Note: The information below is taken from the A2A web site. Dates in round brackets are birth and death dates; dates in square brackets indicate the dates of the papers.

Catalogues

Edward Penley Abraham, FRS (1913-99) biochemist [1925-99]

John Randal Baker, FRS (1900-84) Emeritus Reader in cytology, Oxford University [1928-81]

(Thomas) Brooke Benjamin (1929-95) mathematician and physicist [1947-95]

Geoffrey Emett Blackman, FRS (1903-80) agricultural scientist [1863-1981]

British Mathematical Tables Committee [1871-1960]

Sydney Chapman, FRS (1888-1970) mathematician and geophysicist [1962-72]

Theodore William Chaundy (1889-1971) [1910-51]

Wilfrid le Gros Clark, FRS (1895-1971) anatomist [1890-1974]

Charles Alfred Coulson, FRS (1910-74) theoretical chemist [1900-79]

Cyril Dean Darlington, FRS (1903-81) cytogeneticist and evolutionist [1865-1981]

Charles Sutherland Elton, FRS (1900-91) animal ecologist [1893-1991]

Edmund Brisco Ford, FRS (1901-88) geneticist [1909-89]

Alister Clavering Hardy, FRS (1896-1985) zoologist [1883-1985]

John Laker Harley, FRS (1911-90) botanist [1924-91]

Geoffrey W. Harris, CBE, FRS (1913-71) physiologist and endocrinologist [1913-72]

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, OM, FRS (1910-94) chemist and crystallographer [1828-1993]

John Cowdery Kendrew, FRS (1917-97) molecular biologist [1884-1997]

Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn, FRS (1906-80) physicist [1928-81]

Edward Arthur Milne, FRS (1896-1950) mathematician and theoretical astrophysicist [1916-78]

Alexander George Ogston, FRS (1911-96) biochemist [1933-86]

Oxford Enzyme Group [1967-90]

Rudolph (Ernst) Peierls, CBE, FRS (1907-95) theoretical physicist [1750-1996]

Rudolph Albert Peters, FRS (1889-1982) biochemist [1913-82]

David Chilton Phillips, FRS (b. 1924) biophysicist [1768-1997]

Rodney Robert Porter, CH, FRS (1917-85) biochemist and immunologist [1933-87]

Herbert Marcus Powell, FRS (1906-91) crystallographer [1921-91]

John William Sutton Pringle, FRS (1912-82) biologist [1948-79]

Rex Edward Richards (b. 1922) chemist [1928-88]

William Hume-Rothery, OBE, FRS (1899-1968) chemist and metallurgist [1922-70]

Frederick Soddy, FRS (1877-1956) chemist and social commentator [1894-1974]

Christopher Strachey (1916-75) computer scientist [1926-83]

Leslie Ernest Sutton, FRS (1906-92) chemist [1927-92]

Nikolaas Tinbergen, FRS (1907-88) ethologist [1920-90]

John Sealy E. Townsend KBE, FRS (1868-1957) physicist [1914-57]

Donald Devereux Woods, FRS (1912-64) microbiologist [1912-65]


Last Modified: 21 November 2011