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Quantum Mechanics

1926

MD Thesis `Studies on the structure and function of factor VIII'

1976-1977

PhD thesis 'Purification and characterization of human factor VIII'

1980-1984

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Brian Whitt, titled: Gravity: a quantum theory?

1988

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Friedel Epple, titled: String scattering amplitudes and effective action for toroidal orientifolds

2006

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Paul Davis, titled: Hidden symmetries of higher dimensional black holes

2006

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Nicholas Warner, titled: Non-Perturbative Quantum Gravity

1982

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Alexander Kaus, titled: Extremal charged brane world black holes

2011

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Ricardo Monteiro, titled: Classical and thermodynamic stability of black holes

2010

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Marika Taylor, titled: Problems in M theory

1999

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Christopher Hunter, titled: The nuts and bolts of entropy

1999

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Mike Cassidy, titled: Quantum field theory and acausal spacetimes

1998

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Justin Hayward, titled: Black holes in two dimensions

1995

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Raphael Bousso, titled: Pair creation of black holes in cosmology

1997

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Simon Ross, titled: Black hole pair creation

1996

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Jonathan Halliwell, titled: The initial state of the universe (1986)

1986

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Jonathan Halliwell, titled: The initial state of the universe (1985)

1985

PhD thesis by Firas Jumaah

2016

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Fay Dowker, titled: Space-time wormholes

1990

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Paul Shellard, titled: Quantum Effects in the Early Universe

1986

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Andrew Chamblin, titled: Aspects of topology in classical and quantum gravity

1995

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Michael Fawcett, titled: Quantum field theory near a black hole

1982

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Raymond Laflamme, titled: Time and quantum cosmology

1988

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Oisin MacConamhna, titled: G-structures in supergravity

2004

PhD thesis by Gary Gibbons's student Wayne Boucher, titled: Classical supergravity

1984

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Gary Gibbons, titled: Some aspects of gravitational radiation and gravitational collapse

1973

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Giovanni Paolo Procopio, titled: Black holes on the brane

2007

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Tim Clunan, titled: The primordial universe: instantons, the ghost spectrum and the closed universe bispectrum

2010

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Thomas Hertog, titled: The origin of inflation

2001

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Chris Prior, titled: Angular momentum in general relativity

1975

PhD thesis by Hawking's student Ian Moss, titled: Phase transitions in the early universe

1982

PhD thesis by Hawking's student James Grant, titled: Spacetime distortion and quantum gravity. Including handwritten letter

1993
Le Cinemascope [thesis, University de Paris] / Christine Leininger, ca.1987. [138p., photocopy of typescript. Maitrise d'etudes cinematographiques et audiovisuelles, Universite de Paris VII]

Le Cinemascope thesis

circa 1987
[Thesis] 'The social definition of British railways since 1865: with special reference to those of England' / D.C.H. Watts. 1999. [Ph.D. in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Dept. of Geography, University of Bristol. xii + 459p. Includes colour photos (43) of railway advertising posters]

The social definition of British railways since 1865: with special reference to those of England

1999
The Development of the Lathe / Karl Wittmann. 1941. [Xeroxed typescript. Translation of Wittmann's Die Entwicklung der Drehbank, a dissertation at the Berlin Institute of Technology and a publication in the monograph series of the Centre for the History of Technology, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (vol.17).[1960 edition, in German, shelved at 621.9:93]

The Development of the Lathe / Karl Wittmann. 1941

1941
Design of superconducting machines / A.D. Appleton. [Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of London, 1977. 253p., ill. Relates to the research undertaken with the first superconducting electric motor (Inv. No 1987-1158) developed in 1966 by the International Research and Development Co. Ltd. Inscribed and signed on flyleaf]

Design of superconducting machines / A.D. Appleton

1977
'The Trend to Standardization: Product Develpment in the British Motor Cycle Industry 1896-1916' / Bernard Russell. [Ph.D thesis (1985) awarded by City Univ. Business School]

The Trend to Standardization: Product Develpment in the British Motor Cycle Industry 1896-1916

1985
The Distribution of Electricity in Rural Areas 1926 to 1963 : An Investigation / John M. Owen. [Thesis (M.Sc. in Energy Resource Management) - South Bank Polytechnic, 1989. iii, 90p., charts, photos (photocopy)]

The Distribution of Electricity in Rural Areas 1926 to 1963 : An Investigation / John M. Owen

1989
'Some aspects of the life of Bishop John Wilkins, 1614-1672' / Robert L. Helps. 1975. [A biographical study of the first twenty-four years of the life of John Wilkins, future founder of the Royal Society. Includes photo of portrait engraving of Wilkins. MA thesis, Univ. of Exeter. Photocopy of typescript, 206p.]

Some aspects of the life of Bishop John Wilkins, 1614-1672

1975
The life and work of W.H. Wollaston / A.H. Kent, 1931. [Ts. dissertation for Univ. of London MSc (History, Methods and Principles of Science), v + 124p.]

The life and work of W.H. Wollaston / A.H. Kent

1931
William Thomson's Inventions for the Submarine Telegraph Industry: A Nineteenth-Century Technology Program / Norton Q. Sloan Jr. [M.A. thesis, Harvard University, 1996. 240p.]

William Thomson's Inventions for the Submarine Telegraph Industry

1996
[Ph.D. thesis] The little engines that could've : the calculating machines of Charles Babbage / Bruce Collier. 1970

The little engines that could've : the calculating machines of Charles Babbage

1970
[Thesis] George Parsons and the Parrett Works 1834-1875 / Dennis Chapman. 1986. [M.Phil. Univ. of Liverpool thesis]

George Parsons and the Parrett Works 1834-1875

1986
[Thesis] History of Fenton, Murray & Wood / Trevor Turner. 1966. [Extracted from the papers of Charles E. Lee. Thesis (Master of Technical Science) - Victoria University of Manchester (Faculty of Technology), 1966. Covers mechanical flax spinning, steam engine building and disputes with Boulton and Watt, railway and steam boat engines, and the gaslight industry]

History of Fenton, Murray & Wood.

1966
Tusks and Tortoiseshell : the early development of the British plastics industry with special reference to the British Xylonite Company Ltd., 1877-1920 / Peter C. Ashlee. 1982. [iv, 122, ts. Thesis (B.A.) - University of Nottingham, 1982. [Company records of BXL Plastics Ltd.]

Tusks and Tortoiseshell: the early development of the British plastics industry

1982
Future developments in aircraft design / F Whittle. [Whittle's original 1928 thesis (37p.) on Jet Propulsion by Rocket, and the Gas Turbine as a Power Plant for Aircraft, written whilst a Flight Cadet at Cranwell. In Royal Air Force notebook, later bound and bearing title 'The original "thesis" on the gas-turbine engine by Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle'. Bears pencil comments by Cranwell's Science Professor, Prof. Sinnatt, including 'The thesis shows much careful and original thought and also a good deal of private reading', and the mark 30/30 on the front cover. There is a page missing]

Future developments in aircraft design, F Whittle.

1928
The Differential Analyser and some applications / Arthur Porter. [Thesis (Ph.D.) - Victoria University of Manchester, 1936. 2 binders; include (loose) an abstract of the thesis (6p); an offprint 'The Construction and Operation of a Model Differential Analyser' by D.R. Hartree and A. Porter from vol.79 of Mem. & Proc. of the Manchester Lit. & Phil. Soc. 1935 July; and, in an end-pocket to vol.1, 8 sheets of drawings. With miscellaneous papers]

The Differential Analyser and some applications, Arthur Porter

1936
On Developments of Spectroscopic Apparatus in the Nineteenth Century / Elizabeth A. Sarson, 1973. [BSc degree thesis, Lady Margaret Hall, Univ. of Oxford. 279pp. + photos, ts.]

On Developments of Spectroscopic Apparatus in the Nineteenth Century / Elizabeth A. Sarson

1973
Living with Plastics : Museums, Materials and Culture / Mark Suggitt. [1992 thesis (MA in Museum Studies) - University of Leicester, 1992. Chapters titled: Plastics and Museums, Excellent Substitutes (Plastics to 1920), Moulding a New world (Plastics to 1965), A Question of Taste (The Collecting of Plastics)]

Living with Plastics : Museums

1992
Kensington's Electricity Supply : It's Nineteenth Century Beginnings / William John Cotton. [Thesis (Diploma in History [Scheme C - English Local History]) - University of London (Department of Extra-Mural Studies), 1972. v, 82p., 6 maps, photos (photocopy.)]

Kensington's Electricity Supply : It's Nineteenth Century Beginnings / William John Cotton

1972