Collection of Professor Ian Munro's papers relating to the establishment of Synchrotron Radiation research facilities at Daresbury Laboratory.

The collection consists of: notebook of research notes on Synchrotron Radiation, c1968; copies of pages from the research notebook; brochure relating to the proposed site for a European Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Daresbury Laboratory; correspondence between Professor Alick Ashmore of Daresbury Laboratory, the Science Research Council, Cavendish Laboratory, and various interested University Physics Departments relating to the setting up and funding of NINA, the SRF and the SRS; minutes of the first meeting of the Synchrotron Radiation Experimental Programme Committee, 1977; minutes of the first meeting of the Synchrotron Radiation Users, 1977; scholarly papers and reports by Ian Munro expounding the importance of the Synchrotron Radiation facilities at Daresbury; folder of copy statements on the scientific case which would justify provision of a source of synchrotron radiation, 1973; correspondence, papers and reports on the future direction of synchrotron radiation research at Daresbury, c1989-2000.