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Radioactivity
PART OF:
The Papers of Dr. AB Wood
Made:
1914-1921
part of archive:
The Papers of Dr. AB Wood
maker:
Wood, Albert Beaumont
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ABW/3
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The Papers of Dr. AB Wood
ABW/1 History and Recollections
ABW/1/1 Albert Beaumont Wood Memorial Number. Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service, vol. 20, no.4.
ABW/1/2 Author's offprints of the original paper comprising From B.I.R. to R.N.S.S.
ABW/1/3 Material relating to George Wood
ABW/1/3/1 Correspondence with George W. Wood concerning GWW's visits to ABW in England, and ABW's forthcoming visit to the USA.
ABW/1/3/2 Transcript of ABW's reminiscences, which were taped by GWW during Oct.-Nov. 1960.
ABW/1/4 Stephen Butterworth, OBE. - an appreciation.
ABW/2 Education
ABW/2/1 File of notes and miscellaneous papers from ABW's educational diploma course at the University of Manchester.
ABW/2/2 Address, reports and abstracts of papers of Section L of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Manchester meeting, 1915.
ABW/3 Radioactivity
ABW/3/1 6 papers published by Wood, concerning radioactivity (kept together by him)
ABW/3/1/1 (with Barratt, T.) Volatility of thorium active deposit. Proc. Phys. Soc., vol. 26, 1914, pp. 248-260.
ABW/3/1/2 The volatility of thorium 0: with a note on the relative activities of thorium C and O. Phil. Mag., vol. 28, 1914, pp. 808-818.
ABW/3/1/3 Volatilisation of extremely thin radioactive deposits. Proc. Roy. Soc., vol. 91, 1915, pp. 543- 560.
ABW/3/1/4 (with A.I. Steven) Investigation of the photographic effect of recoil atoms. Proc. Phys. Soc., vol. 27, 1915, pp 189- 192.
ABW/3/1/5 The velocities of the cl particles from thorium active deposit. Phil. Mag., vol. 30, 1915, pp. 702-710 & plate 17.
ABW/3/1/6 (with W. Makover). The recoil of radium 0 from radium C. Phil. Mag., vol. 30, 1915, pp. 811-815.
ABW/3/2 File concerning ABW's publication of: Long-range particles from thorium active deposits. Phil. Mag., vol. 41, 1921, pp. 575-584.
ABW/4 Admiralty Work
ABW/4/1 File: "Letters of appointment etc.".
ABW/4/2 Offprints of ABW's published papers on the development of the cathode-ray oscillograph, with distribution lists.
ABW/4/3 File "Magnetostriction".
ABW/4/4 File "Echo Sounders".
ABW/4/5 File "Kelvin Hughes"
ABW/4/6 Correspondence with the BBC re ABW's part in recording a radio programme on wartime degaussing.
ABW/4/7 Offprints of published papers relating to Admiralty work.
ABW/5 External Recognition
ABW/5/1 Envelope marked "Cathode ray oscillograph" containing paper and letter of congratulation re the award of the Duddell Medal of the Physical Society to ABW.
ABW/5/2 Duddell Medal certificate, awarded to ABW, 1951, with 2 ms. notes by ABW. (MSL 18)
ABW/5/3 Papers re award of Pioneers of Underwater Acoustics medal to ABW by the Acoustical Society of America, 1961, Cincinnati, Ohio.
ABW/5/4 Newspaper cuttings etc. re ABW's year at the US Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, California.
ABW/6 Memorials
ABW/6/1 Mrs. A.B. Wood's file re Uppermill School.
ABW/6/2 Mrs. Wood's file re the A.B. Wood Medal of the Institute of Physics.
ABW/6/3 Admiralty Research Laboratory file "A.B. Wood Memorial File", possibly kept by W. Burrows, Superintendent ARL.
ABW/6/4 Mrs. Wood's file re the Research Vessels A.B. Wood and A.B. Wood II, operated by MAS (Marine Acoustical Services Inc.) of Miami, Florida.
