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HANBURY BROWN, Robert (1916-2002), astronomer.  See BROWN, Robert Hanbury

HANSON, Emmeline Jean (1919-1973), biophysicist

HARDY, Sir Alister Clavering (1896-1985). Knight, zoologist

HARLEY, John Laker (1911-1990), forest scientist

HARRIS, Geoffrey Wingfield (1913-1971), neuroendocrinologist

HARTREE, Douglas Rayner (1897-1958), mathematician

HEATLEY, Norman George (1911-2004), biochemist

HEWER, Humphrey Robert (1903-1974), zoologist

HEYWOOD, Harold (1905-1971), physicist

HILL, Sir John McGregor (1921-2008), physicist

HILL, Robert (‘Robin’) (1899-1991), biochemist

HINDLE, Edward (1886-1973), zoologist, tropical medic

HINSHELWOOD, Sir Cyril Norman (1897-1967), physical chemist

HINTON, Christopher, Baron Hinton of Bankside (1901-1983), engineer

HINTON, Howard Everest (1912-1977), entomologist

HODGKIN, Sir Alan Lloyd (1914-1998), physiologist

HODGKIN, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot (1910-1994), biochemist

HOGBEN, Lancelot Thomas (1895-1975), biologist, medical statistician

HUDSON, Robert George Spencer (1895-1965), palaeontologist

HUME-ROTHERY, William (1894-1968), metallurgist. See ROTHERY, William HUME-

HUNTER, Herbert (1882-1959), agriculturalist (Plant breeding)

HUTCHISON, Sir Kenneth (1903-1989). Knight, engineer

 

 

Hanson, Emmeline Jean, 1919-1973. Biophysicist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: King's College London, College Archives.  Reference code: GB 0100 KCLCA Hanson
Title: Papers and correspondence of Emmeline Jean Hanson, 1919-1973
Dates of creation of material: 1938-1975
Extent: 20 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hanson was born at Newhall, Derbyshire and educated at the Girls' High School, Burton-on-Trent, 1930-1938, and Bedford College, London where she read zoology, 1938-1941. After early research at Bedford College and the Strangeways Laboratory, Cambridge, she was appointed Demonstrator in Zoology, Bedford College, 1944-1948. In 1948 J.T. Randall invited her to join the staff of the Biophysical Research Unit that he was establishing at King's College, London with funding from the Medical Research Council. Hanson remained at King's until her death, becoming Professor of Biology in 1966 and Director of the Muscle Biophysics Research Unit in 1970.

Hanson's research was concerned with the structural basis of muscular contraction. Her most important investigations began during 1953-1954 when she held a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was here, in F.O. Schmitt's laboratory, that she began her collaboration with H.E. Huxley which led to the formulation and testing of the sliding filament hypothesis of muscular contraction.  She was elected FRS in 1967.

Custodial history:

Received for cataloguing in 1975-1977 from Dr Gerald Offer, Hanson's scientific executor.  Placed in King's College London in 1978.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers include a full range of notes on lectures attended by Hanson as an undergraduate, and of her own drafts for lectures, carefully revised each year, which provides a record of undergraduate teaching in zoology at Bedford College, 1938-1948. There are also the courses of lectures in biophysics which she gave at King's College, 1960-1973. Hanson's research is represented by extensive laboratory notebooks and working papers, 1938-1973, which include ideas for research and comments on current and projected experiments as well as records and observations of work in progress.  There are reports on the work of the Muscle Biophysics Unit, drafts for publications 1950-1973 and unpublished invitation lectures and talks 1956-1973, and scientific correspondence, 1956-1973. When Hanson or her principal colleagues were abroad on conferences, or visiting fellow-scientists and their laboratories, they exchanged frequent and extensive letters. A detailed picture can thus be formed of her own research and general progress in the field, and also of the scientists involved both in her laboratory and elsewhere.

Arrangement:

By section as follows: Biographical and personal, Bedford College London, Laboratory notebooks and working papers, King's College London, Lectures and conferences, Scientific correspondence, Publications. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Open, subject to the production of identification and signature of the reader's undertaking.
Language: English.
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Emmeline Jean Hanson: CSAC catalogue no. 51/5/77, 25 pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

 

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Hardy, Sir Alister Clavering, 1896-1985. Knight. Zoologist and religious thinker.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford. Reference code: GB 0161 A.C. Hardy papers
Title: Papers and correspondence of  Sir Alister Clavering Hardy, 1896-1985.
Dates of creation of material: ca 1908 - ca 1985.
Extent: 95 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hardy was born in Nottingham and educated at Oundle School and Exeter College, Oxford where his studies were interrupted in 1915 by war service with the Northern Cyclist Battalion. He returned to Oxford in 1919 and undertook research at the Stazione Zoologica, Naples before taking up his first post at the Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft in 1921. Here the study of plankton became his principal research interest and prompted the devising of recording apparatus leading to the Continuous Plankton Recorder. In 1924 Hardy was appointed Zoologist on the Discovery expedition to the Antarctic, 1925-1927, and on his return he was appointed to the newly created chair in zoology and oceanography at University College, Hull. In 1942 he moved to the Regius Chair in Natural History at Aberdeen University and in 1946 to the Linacre Chair in Zoology at Oxford University where he remained for the rest of his career. Here he encouraged the ecological field researches of the Bureau of Animal Population (C.S. Elton q.v.) and the Edward Grey Institute for Field Ornithology (D.L. Lack q.v.) and was responsible for persuading the ethologist N. Tinbergen (q.v.) to move his animal behaviour research from the University of Leiden to Oxford. Hardy retired from his Oxford chair in 1960 and increasingly devoted himself to his longstanding religious interests. In 1968 he set up the Religious Experience Research Unit at Manchester College, Oxford to assemble and analyse religious experiences and the award of the 1985 Templeton Prize enabled this work to continue as the Alister Hardy Research Centre.

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1986-1988 from Mr Michael Hardy and Mrs Belinda Farley, son and daughter.  Placed in Bodleian Library (gift) in 1988.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers give a good picture of many aspects of Hardy's life and career. Biographical material includes the plans, outlines and several draft chapters for the autobiography which Hardy did not live to complete; the extant draft goes to 1925. Hardy's scientific research and publications are perhaps underdocumented but there is material on the early plankton research and the development of the plankton indicator and recorder, and on the Discovery expedition, with Hardy's preparatory work and sketches and his journals and reports. Other projects represented are aerial drift, vertical migration and the 'Aquatic man' theory. The correspondence, though generally slight, has more substantial exchanges in the 1920s with Armand Denis, the Belgian zoologist and film-maker whom Hardy met at Naples, and with Sir John Ellerman the shipping magnate who supported Hardy's oceanographic work at Hull. Another dimension of Hardy's life and work is represented by material on his religious interests. There are records of his early (1916) and continuing interest in telepathy and thought transference, a considerable number of lectures and publications, and documentation of the history of the Religious Experience Research Unit from its founding in 1968 to Hardy's death in 1985.

A special feature of the papers is documentation (including photographs) of Hardy's service with the Northern Cyclist Battalion during the First World War and of his continuing contacts with members of the battalion and their families throughout the rest of his very long life. Other interests such as flight and balloons, boxing, writing fiction and poetry, and drawing and painting are also represented.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical and autobiographical, Zoology and marine biology, Religion and the paranormal, Patents, inventions and ideas, Other interests, Non-print material. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Entry permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card or an Oxford University Card displaying the Bodleian logo. All applicants for new or replacement cards must apply in person, with a recommendation and payment if required, and with proof of their identity.

Some items not available for 30 years from date of writing

Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of  Sir Alister Clavering Hardy: NCUACS catalogue no. 5/4/88, 98 pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In other repositories

Watercolours of temples are held at the Alister Hardy Research Centre, Oxford.

A framed photograph of the George Bligh and crew, and plans and miscellaneous photographs of the Continuous Plankton Recorder are held at the Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft.

Taped recollections are held in Hull University Archives.

26 watercolours and three photographs of the Discovery expedition are held at the Natural History Museum, London.

The original Continuous Plankton Recorder was deposited in the Science Museum, London.

Insect drift material is held at the Monks Wood Experimental Station, Huntingdon.

 

Archives, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

One folder of correspondence exchanged by Sir Alister Clavering Hardy and Dr Lanna Cheng  in the Lanna Cheng Papers (Box 7).  Accession number  (which has not yet been processed) 2006-22.

The folder contains correspondence dated 1984- 1985 between Cheng and Hardy. Hardy apparently sent Cheng some originals (and some copies)of lectures, notes, and research data related to marine insects. The earliest material in this file dates to 1938.   There is, for instance, what appears to be an original mimeograph entitled, "University College of Hull.  Preliminary Report on the investigation of insect drift over the North Sea, June to October 1938."

Another mimeograph is entitled, "Interim summary report on the Insect Drift Investigations in the Department of Zoology, Oxford, 1947-1948."

 

 

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Harley, John Laker, 1911-1990. Forest scientist.

 

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford.  Reference code: GB 0161 J.L. Harley papers
Title: Papers and correspondence of John Laker Harley, 1911-1990
Dates of creation of material: 1930-1991
Extent: 31 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Harley was born at Charlton, Kent and educated at Leeds Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford where he read botany. Some of his undergraduate field study work was of sufficiently high quality to merit inclusion in A.G. Tansley's classic work on The British Islands and their Vegetation. The award of a Christopher Welch Scholarship in 1933 enabled Harley to embark on postgraduate study at Oxford, on beech mycorrhiza which became the principal topic of his research career. In 1939 he was appointed a Departmental Demonstrator in the Oxford Botany Department, but from October 1940 served in the Royal Signals, being part of the Army Operational Research Group from 1943 and working in India and Burma; he was demobilised with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1945 and returned to Oxford. His long connexion with The Queen's College began in 1946, first as Browne Research Fellow, then as Tutorial Fellow from 1951 until his move to Sheffield in 1965.

From 1948 began the most productive period of Harley's research career, working with a succession of able research students on careful studies of factors governing nutrient absorption and uptake in myrcorrhizal roots of beech. In 1965, feeling under some pressure from university and college administrative committees and hoping to be freer to pursue active research, he accepted an invitation from his old friend and former tutor A.R. Clapham to take up the second Chair of Botany at Sheffield. In practice, Harley found a considerable administrative and departmental burden fell on him there also, including complete redesigning and reorganising of the laboratories, and he was conscious of a further slowing-down of his research activity. In 1969 he was asked to return to Oxford and the newly designated Chair of Forest Science. His ten-year tenure of the chair was highly productive in his own research, in the development of the department and its research units, and in his many commitments to the university, to learned societies and to UK and international science.

He was President of the British Ecological Society 1970-1971 and the Institute of Biology 1984-1986 and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1988. He was elected FRS in 1964.

See D.C. Smith & D.H. Lewis, 'John Laker Harley', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol 39 (1994), 157-175 .

Custodial history

The papers were received for cataloguing in 1992-1993 from Mrs E.L. Harley, widow.  Placed in Bodleian Library (gift) in 1993.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers include research material and records of Harley's publications, lectures and visits and conferences. The research material dates from all stages of Harley's career. Of interest are the undergraduate work 1932-1933 on the ashwoods of Ribblesdale which A.G. Tansley used in his published work and the graduate work, 1937-1939 with E.W. Yemm on ecological surveys in Wensleydale. Harley's research was almost always collaborative, as can be seen from the notes and records of the 1950s on beech mycorrhiza; his collaborators have been identified where possible but many others such as J.S. Waid, D.C. Smith, D.H. Lewis and B.C. Loughman are not represented. There is documentation of Harley's principal books (The history of mycorrhiza and Mycorrhiza) and many of his scientific papers but there is virtually nothing in the collection relating to his work as editor, referee or advisor, notably for New Phytologist. There are lectures covering a wide date span 1940-1990 and some material relating to overseas visits especially to Australia and New Zealand. The correspondence is mainly incoming letters to which Harley replied in longhand and there are few extended sequences. Of considerable biographical interest is the draft of Harley's unpublished autobiography 'As luck would have it' and there are also records of his appointment to the chairs in Sheffield and Oxford.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical, Oxford, Research, Publications, Lectures, papers and addresses, Visits and conferences, Societies and organisations, Correspondence. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Entry permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card or an Oxford University Card displaying the Bodleian logo. All applicants for new or replacement cards must apply in person, with a recommendation and payment if required, and with proof of their identity.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of John Laker Harley: NCUACS catalogue no. 41/3/93, 56pp. Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

 

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Harris, Geoffrey Wingfield, 1913-1971. Neuroendocrinologist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Bodleian Library, Oxford.  Reference code: GB 0161 G.W. Harris papers
Title:  Papers and correspondence of Geoffrey Wingfield Harris, 1913-1971
Dates of creation of material: 1913-1972
Extent: 24 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Harris was born in Acton, London and educated at Dulwich College, 1927-1931, Emmanuel College, Cambridge (M.A. M.B. B.Chir.), 1932-1939, and St Mary's Hospital, London, 1936-1940. He returned to Cambridge University as Demonstrator and Lecturer in Anatomy and Physiology, 1940-1952, moving to the Maudsley Hospital, London, as head of the Laboratory of Experimental Neuroendocrinology, 1952-1962. He was Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at Oxford University from 1962 until his death. Harris's work was the study of the control of the multiple activities of the pituitary gland, and the reciprocal interactions of the brain and endocrine glands. He travelled widely, published and lectured extensively, and served on many medical and scientific committees. He was elected FRS in 1953.

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1973 from Mrs Margaret Harris, widow. Placed in Bodleian Library (gift) in 1973.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

There is biographical material relating to Harris and his career including family letters and correspondence relating to offers of posts and appointments. There are laboratory notebooks covering the whole of his career, 1931-1970, many notes for lectures, demonstrations, speeches and talks given in Britain and abroad, 1940-1970, drafts for publications and correspondence. The correspondence is mainly late, since much was destroyed by Harris when he moved from London to Oxford in 1962.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical, Laboratory notebooks, Lectures and demonstrations, Working papers, Publications, Correspondence, List of experimental material in the Department of Human Anatomy. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Entry permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card or an Oxford University Card displaying the Bodleian logo. All applicants for new or replacement cards must apply in person, with a recommendation and payment if required, and with proof of their identity.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Geoffrey Wingfield Harris: CSAC catalogue no. 4/73, 12 pp. Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In same repository

Some laboratory material, including slides, photographs and experimental observations remained in the Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford. A selection from this material was accepted in 1984 for permanent preservation in the Bodleian Library after sorting and listing by the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.

In other repositories

Harris's experimental apparatus was deposited at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London. In 1976 the museum was transferred on indefinite loan to the Science Museum, London.

 

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Hartree, Douglas Rayner, 1897-1958. Mathematician.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Library, Christ's College, Cambridge.  Reference code: GB 0267 D.R. Hartree papers
Title: Papers and correspondence of Douglas Rayner Hartree, 1897-1958
Dates of creation of material: 1932-1950
Extent: 4 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hartree was born in Cambridge and educated at Bedales School, 1910-1915. He entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1915 but his course was interrupted by war and he joined the team led by A.V. Hill which was studying anti-aircraft gunnery. He returned to Cambridge after the war, graduating in 1921, Mathematical Tripos Part I, Natural Sciences Tripos (Physics) Part II. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1926. He was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, 1924-1927, and Christ's College, Cambridge, 1928-1929. He then moved to Manchester University where he was successively Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics, 1929-1937, and Professor of Theoretical Physics, 1937-1946, though during the Second World War he was mainly on secondment working on the scientific staff of the Ministry of Supply. In 1946 he returned to Cambridge University as Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics, a post he held until his death. His principal research interests were atomic structure, propagation of radio waves and numerical analysis and calculating machines.

He was elected FRS in 1932.

See for further information see the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1976 from Mrs Elaine Hartree, widow and Professor M.V. Wilkes.  Placed in Christ's College 1976.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers are not extensive. They include drafts and notes for unpublished textbooks on dynamics and wave mechanics, notes taken for Hartree's last lectures in Cambridge, notes taken by Hartree of a course of lectures by A.M. Turing on the design of the ACE computer, and four letters to E.V. Appleton .

Arrangement

The material is not sectionalised. See Scope and content above.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Contact the repository for details.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Douglas Rayner Hartree: CSAC catalogue no. 45/9/76, 4 pp + repository list of later additions.   Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In same repository

Further material presented by Lady Jeffreys in December 1977 and March 1988 and Mrs Margaret Booth (daughter). Items numbered 18-22

In other repositories

One box of archival material, principally off-prints of Hartree's publications, is at the National Archive for the History of Computing, University of Manchester (NAHC HAR.)

Some of Hartree's early calculating machines are held in the Science Museum, London.

 

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Heatley, Norman George, 1911-2004. Biochemist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London. Reference code: GB 0121 GC/48
Title: Papers and correspondence of Norman George Heatley, 1911-2004
Dates of creation of material: 1939-1942
Extent: 1 box

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Heatley was educated at Tonbridge School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1933. From 1933 to 1936 he worked under Joseph Needham at the Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry, Cambridge, on microchemical methods applied to biological problems, and obtained his doctorate in 1936. In September 1936 Heatley came at the invitation of H.W. Florey to the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, initially to work with E.B. Chain and later from October 1939, directly with Florey on the early research and development of penicillin. This close collaboration continued to June 1941 when Heatley accompanied Florey to the USA, bearing with him his research notebooks and sketches for apparatus. He remained there until June 1942. After his return to Oxford he resumed work at the Dunn School, and was a Nuffield Research Fellow of Lincoln College, 1948-1978.

He was awarded the OBE in 1978 for his contributions to scientific research.  He died in 2004.

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1980-1983 from Heatley.  Placed in CMAC (Wellcome Library) 1983.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

This small but important collection is concerned with the research and development of penicillin. It is notable for the contemporary notebooks and sketches including the famous experiment of 25 May 1941 on the 'Curative Effect of Penicillin' on mice. There are also diary entries, narratives and explanatory notes, some prepared by Heatley expressly for the collection.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Laboratory notebooks, Narratives and diary entries, Description and diagrams of appartus, Correspondence with H.W. Florey.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: By appointment with the Archivist and after completing a Reader's Application and Undertaking.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Norman George Heatley: CSAC catalogue no. 96/7/83, 12 pp. Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In other repositories

Penicillin apparatus including some designed by Heatley, is held by the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.

 

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Hewer, Humphrey Robert, 1903-1974. Zoologist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Imperial College Archives, London.  Reference code: GB 0098 B/HEWER
Title: Papers and correspondence of Humphrey Robert Hewer, 1903-1974
Dates of creation of material: 1918-1974
Extent: 13 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hewer was educated at Imperial College, London and returned there as Lecturer, 1926-1937, Reader, 1937-1964 and Professor, 1964-1970, of Zoology. He was active in government service during the Second World War and in the latter part of his career at Imperial College. He was Chief Rodent Officer, Ministry of Food, 1941-1945 and Chairman, Advisory Committee, Infestation Control Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1965-1974, and Chairman, Farm Animals Welfare Committee, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1967-1974. He was Secretary-General of the International Congress of Zoology in 1959.

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1974 from Mrs Olive Hewer, widow.  Placed in Imperial College Archives 1974.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers include many notebooks, journals and notes relating to Hewer's field trips, especially his work on seals, zygaena and woodpeckers. There are papers and correspondence of various natural history committees and societies on which he served, drafts and material for his publications (especially British seals), photographs, drawings, notes, and scripts for various wildlife films, and correspondence.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical, Notebooks and journals, Working papers, Committees and societies, Lectures, Publications, Films, photographs and drawings. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Admission is by appointment only to bona fide scholars; prior proof of status and proof of identity is required.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Humphrey Robert Hewer: CSAC catalogue no. 23/17/74, 17 pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In same repository

Records of Hewer's early work on Burnet moths were deposited in Imperial College Archives when he was Professor of Zoology.

 

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Heywood, Harold, 1905-1971. Engineer and physicist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Imperial College Archives, London.  Reference code: GB 0098 B/HEYWOOD
Title: Papers and correspondence of Harold Heywood, 1905-1971
Dates of creation of material: 1925-1973
Extent: 7 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Heywood was born in Manchester and educated at the Alleyn's School, Dulwich, 1910-1919. He served an engineering apprenticeship with Robey & Son, Lincoln, 1920-1925, when the award of a Whitworth scholarship took him to the City and Guilds College, Imperial College, London for undergraduate studies, 1925-1928. He was Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Regent Street Polytechnic, 1931-1936, and then returned to Imperial College as Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was promoted to Reader in 1940. He was appointed Principal of Woolwich Polytechnic, 1957-1967, and on retirement continued his research at Loughborough University of Technology, where he was given the title of Professor. His principal research interests were particle characterisation and solar energy.

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1976 from Dr Frances Heywood, widow.  Placed in Imperial College Archives 1976.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers include notebooks covering Heywood's undergraduate career at Imperial College, London, and notebooks, notes and reports on his work on dusts and sedimentation, sieving, particle size and pulverisation. This includes records of work undertaken during the Second World and after for the Ministry of Supply as a result of the problems caused by dust during military operations in desert warfare. There are extensive notes and observations on solar energy, begun at Imperial College but mainly carried on at Woolwich and Loughborough. There are also travel diaries, correspondence and other material relating to conferences and consultancies on the subject (Heywood acted as adviser to the governments of Egypt and Malta).

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical, Notebooks, Working papers on particles and pulveriation, Working papers and correspondence on solar energy, Lectures and publications, Correspondence, Publications. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Admission is by appointment only to bona fide scholars; prior proof of status and proof of identity is required..
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of papers and correspondence of Harold Heywood: CSAC catalogue no. 46/10/76, 16 pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In other repositories

Heywood's collection of early microscopes was purchased for the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge.

 

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Hill, Sir John McGregor, 1921-2008, physicist

IDENTITY STATEMENT:

Repository: Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College Cambridge. Reference code: GB 0014 Hill
Title: Papers and correspondence of Sir John McGregor Hill,  1921-2008
Dates of creation of material: 1946-1994
Extent: 6 linear feet. 11 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

John McGregor Hill was born in Chester on 21 February 1921.  He was educated at Richmond County Grammar School in Surrey, 1930-1939 and at King’s College, London, where he took a first class degree in Physics.  Between 1941 and 1946, Hill served in the RAF, rising to the rank of Flight Lieutenant in the Radar Branch.  On his discharge from the RAF Hill researched the life span of short-lived radio nuclei for his PhD in Nuclear Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.  In 1948 he was appointed Lecturer in Physics in the University of London.

In 1950 Hill joined the Department of Atomic Energy of the Ministry of Supply at the Windscale Works in Cumbria.  He first worked with engineers involved in commissioning Britain’s first production nuclear reactors, the Windscale Piles, built for the production of plutonium for military purposes.  When the headquarters of the industrial section of the organisation moved to Risley, Cheshire, in 1954, Hill joined the production team, which at the time was trying to determine future development and industrial policies for nuclear power.  As Manager of the Production Group, Hill oversaw the uranium diffusion plan at Capenhurst, the fuel manufacturing plant at Springfields, the reprocessing plant at Windscale and the power-generating reactors at Calder and Chapelcross.

Appointed to the Main Board of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (as the Department of Atomic Energy had been renamed) in 1964, Hill received rapid advancement within the organisation (Deputy Director, Technical Director, Deputy Managing Director, Director, and Managing Director) succeeding Lord Penney as Chairman of the UKAEA in 1967, a post he held until 1981.  Hill also served as a member of the Advisory Council on Technology, 1968-1970.  In April 1971, Hill became Chairman of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd, and in 1975 he succeeded Sir Charles Cunningham as Chairman of the Radiochemical Centre Ltd (later Amersham International plc).  He retired as Chairman of BNFL in 1983 and Amersham International plc in 1988.

Hill was elected FRS in 1981 and FEng in 1982.  He was knighted in 1969.  He died in 2008.

Custodial history

The papers were received in March 1999 from Sir John Hill. Deposited in Churchill Archives Centre 1999.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

Biographical material is slight.  It includes biographical profiles and press cuttings, and papers relating to Hill’s appointment and retirement from the UKAEA.  Documentation of Hill’s publications, lectures and speeches forms the main body of the collection.  The bulk of the material consists of articles, speeches and lectures given during the period 1965-1983.  This covers Hill’s chairmanship of the UKAEA and the material may have been assembled in that context.  There are a few later speeches and lectures, 1987-1994 and a set of Hill’s publications.  The principal component of Hill’s correspondence is a chronological sequence, covering the period 1980-1983, of carbon copies of Hill’s correspondence to ministers in the Department of Energy and to others in various organisations and institutions in Britain and abroad.  During this period Hill was President of the Institute of Energy, Chairman of BNFL and Chairman of Amersham International plc.

Arrangement

By section as follows: By section as follows: Biographical, Publications, speeches and lectures, Correspondence. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Readers intending to use the Archives Centre must write in advance to the Keeper of the Archives giving details of their research subject and listing the collections they will wish to consult. New readers should also provide a letter of introduction and some form of identification (such as a passport or driving licence).
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Sir John McGregor Hill: NCUACS catalogue no. 82/3/99, 66 pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

 

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Hill, Robert (Robin), 1899-1991. Biochemist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Cambridge University Library. Reference code: GB 0012 CUL Add. MS 9267
Title: Papers and correspondence of Robert (Robin) Hill, 1899-1991.
Dates of creation of material: 1915-1994.
Extent: 45 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hill was born on 15 March 1899 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. He was educated at Bedales School and, after First World War service in the Anti-gas Department of the Royal Engineers (University College London), Emmanuel College Cambridge where he read for the Natural Sciences Tripos specialising in Chemistry for Part II. At Bedales he had developed an interest in natural dyes and dyeing techniques which continued throughout his career. In 1922 he joined F.G. Hopkins's Department of Biochemistry where he was directed to research on haemoglobin. After a series of papers on the properties of haemoglobin, a mutual interest in haem compounds led in 1926 to collaboration with David Keilin, then working at the Molteno Institute, Cambridge on the isolation of cytochrome c. Another interest of Hill's was meteorology and in the early 1920s he developed a 'fish-eye' camera, a camera with a lens able to photograph through 180, and thus able to photograph the whole sky at once. After a visit to Singapore and the Dutch East Indies in 1932 he continued his haemoglobin research but was also able to turn to plant biochemistry. He embarked on the study of photosynthesis, with research into oxygen evolution of chloroplasts, which led in 1937 to the discovery of the 'Hill reaction'. From 1922 Hill's work had been supported by various research grants but in 1943 he was taken onto the scientific staff of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) though he remained working in the Cambridge Biochemistry Department. Also in 1943, in cooperation with the East Malling Research Station, Maidstone, Kent he initiated research on fruit tree rootstocks. Hill continued to receive most recognition for his work on photosynthesis and from the late 1950s he concentrated on the energetics of photosynthesis, making in 1960 his second great contribution to photosynthesis research with the discovery (with F.L. Bendall), of the 'Z scheme' of electron transport. He retired from the ARC in 1966 though his research continued little diminished until his death in 1991. In his later years Hill worked particularly extensively on the wider issue of the application of the Second Law of Thermodynamics to photosynthesis.

Hill was elected FRS in 1946 (Royal Medal 1963, Copley Medal 1987). He died in 1991.

See D.S. Bendall, 'Robert Hill', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 40, 141-170 (1994).

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1991 from Mrs Priscilla Hill, widow and in 1992-1993 per Dr D.S. Bendall, Hill's Royal Society memorialist.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers consist primarily of research material and scientific correspondence. All aspects of Hill's research are documented from Bedales School to shortly before he died, a period of over seventy years. Represented are his earliest scientific interests in meteorology and dyeing, school and undergraduate notes, his first postgraduate research on inorganic pigments, and his subsequent investigations in the biochemistry of haemoglobin and haematin, including his collaboration from 1926 with Keilin on the isolation of cytochrome c. There is good documentation of his work on photosynthesis including research leading to discovery of the 'Hill reaction' in 1937, and his and F.L. Bendall's outlining of the 'Z scheme' in 1960. Hill's interest in the relationship of thermodynamics to photosynthesis is particularly well represented - including a sequence of fifty notebooks used over a period of thirty years from 1960 and drafts of the major papers he submitted for publication to the Royal Society in 1961 and Nature in 1980 but which remained unpublished. Hill continued to work in other areas most of which are documented including the chemistry of anthraquinone colouring matter in plants in the 1930s, work on dye-stuffs, and the collaboration with A.B. Beakbane and others at the East Malling Research Station on the biology of fruit tree rootstocks. There is also extensive documentation of Hill's development of the fish-eye camera in the 1920s and 1930s, including many notebooks, photographs and correspondence relating to the marketing of the lens system with R. & J. Beck Ltd. Hill's scientific correspondence is substantial but disappointing in that he rarely kept copies of outgoing correspondence. The most extensive sequences are those from E.J.H. Corner relating to Hill's 1932 Singapore visit, with A.B. Beakbane and others at East Malling relating to the rootstock research from 1943, and with his fellow researcher in plant photosynthesis, D.A. Walker from the 1950s. In addition to the research material and scientific correspondence there are important records of Hill's plant biochemistry lectures at Cambridge, and documentation of the visit to Singapore and later visits to France in 1947 as part of a Cambridge University/East Malling Research Station arboricultural expedition and Nyasaland (Malawi) in 1958 to advise on the biochemistry of tea fermentation.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical, Research, Fish-eye camera, Cambridge University, Publications, Lectures, Societies and organisations, Visits and conferences, Correspondence. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: By appointment only
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Robert (Robin) Hill: NCUACS catalogue no. 46/2/94, 151pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath
Link to catalogue (415 bytes).

ALLIED MATERIALS

In other repositories

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge holds examples of the 'fish-eye' camera and stereoscopic photographs taken by Hill.

 

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Hindle, Edward, 1886-1973. Zoologist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Glasgow University Archives and Business Records Centre. Reference code: GB 0248 DC075
Title: Papers and correspondence of Edward Hindle, 1886-1973.
Dates of creation of material: 1900-1974.
Extent: 1.8 metres

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hindle was born in Sheffield and educated mainly at home, by his mother, who was a certificated teacher. In 1903 he was awarded a national scholarship in biology at the Royal College of Science, (Imperial College), London. He spent the next four years in London, taking his Associateship in Zoology in 1906 and at the same time working with Professor A. Dendy at King's College, London. In 1906 his family left England for California and after a year as a research assistant at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine he rejoined them there. He spent six months at the Marine Biological Station, La Jolla and then entered the University of California, Berkeley where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1910. Returning to England he entered Magdalene College, Cambridge as an undergraduate and took his degree in the Natural Sciences Tripos (B.A. 1912; M.A. 1917). He worked under G.H.F. Nuttall at the Quick Laboratory, Cambridge, and served throughout the First World War with the Royal Engineers Signal Service, seeing overseas service in France and Palestine. In 1919 he was appointed Professor of Biology and Parasitology, Government School of Medicine, Cairo where H. Munro Fox (q.v.) was his assistant. Returning to Britain in 1924 he worked at research institutes in London: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1924-1925, Wellcome Bureau of Tropical Medicine, 1928-1933, and National Institute of Medical Research in 1934. Between 1925 and 1928 he was member and then leader of the Royal Society's Kala-Azar Commission in China, the purpose of which was to investigate the problem of visceral Leishmaniasis (kala-azar) in northern China. He was Regius Professor of Zoology at Glasgow University, 1935-1944, and became Scientific Director, Zoological Society, London, 1944-1951.

Apart from the work entailed by his professional appointments, Hindle took on a large number of outside commitments. He was, for example, Founder and First President, Zoological Society of Glasgow, 1936-1944, Founder and First Director, International Wildfowl Research Bureau, 1947-1961, and Founder and First President, Institute of Biology, 1951-1953. He was also General Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1946-1951. He was active in editorial work from early in his career and was associated with Parasitology in various capacities, 1912-1968. He was disappointed after the Second World War by the failure of 'One World', a publication intended as an international review of the arts, sciences and letters, which he helped to launch but was abandoned for lack of financial support. Hindle had a very eclectic research career which was governed by the diverse posts he occupied. G.H.F. Nuttall in Cambridge established him in tropical medicine, and he carried out original work in protozoology and parasitology, especially insect-transmitted infections. He is also well known for the introduction of the golden hamster into the home and the laboratory. Hindle was elected FRS in 1942

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1977 from Miss Phyllis Barclay-Smith.  Placed in Glasgow University Archives 1977.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers document most aspects of Hindle's scientific career. There are notebooks, drawings, reports and correspondence covering the chronological span of his career and his principal research interests, especially his studies of kala-azar and yellow fever. A proposed expedition to Uganda and Nyasaland in 1914, the travels in China with the Royal Society Commission and the interest in hamsters are also documented. There are notes for lectures, talks, broadcasts and publications and material relating to 'One World' including correspondence with colleagues and the editor and a copy of vol. 1, no. 1, printed for private circulation for fund-raising purposes and the only issue to appear in April 1947. The biographical material is representative of most of Hindle's career, though there are only partial records of his many outside activities and honorary posts in societies and associations.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical and personal, Scientific research and activities, Lectures, broadcasts and publications, Scientific correspondence. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Open access
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Edward Hindle: CSAC catalogue no. 61/5/78, 37 pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

 

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Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman, 1897-1967. Knight. Physical chemist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Library, Royal Society, London. Reference code: GB 0117 Hinshelwood papers
Title: Papers of Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 1897-1967.
Dates of creation of material: 1919-1973.
Extent: 12.66 shelf feet

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hinshelwood was born in London and educated at Westminster City School. He won a Brackenbury Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford but was unable to take it up immediately because of the First World War and from 1916 to 1918 he worked at the Department of Explosives, Queensferry Road Ordnance Factory. In 1919 he went to Balliol to do the foreshortened postwar honours course in chemistry and he made his career in Oxford until his retirement in 1964. He was Fellow of Balliol, 1920-1921, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, 1921-1937, and Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry and Fellow of Exeter College, 1937-1964, in succession to F. Soddy. He was Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London from 1964 until his death. Hinshelwood's scientific research was in chemical kinetics, and bacterial growth. He was President of the Chemical Society, 1946-1948, at the time of its centenary celebrations and President of the Royal Society, 1955-1960, his tenure including the Tercentenary Year. In addition to his wide participation in scientific life, he was a linguist with extensive interests in the arts, and in 1959 had the unique distinction of being at the same time President of the Royal Society and the Classical Association. Hinshelwood was elected FRS in 1929 (Bakerian Lecture 1946, Davy Medal 1942, Royal Medal 1947, Leverhulme Medal 1960, Copley Medal 1962) and in 1956 he shared with N.N. Semenov the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their researches into the mechanisms of chemical reactions. He was knighted in 1948 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1960.

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1973 from the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford.  Placed in the Royal Society 1974.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers are not extensive and consist almost entirely of laboratory notebooks and working papers relating to his early work on molecular reactions and gas reactions, 1919-1938. There are also notes and reports of work on respirator design undertaken by Hinshelwood and his team for the Chemical Defence Board, Ministry of Supply, during the Second World War.

Arrangement

Biographical, Laboratory notebooks and working papers, War work.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Papers retain the period of confidentiality agreed at time of the deposit. All new deposits closed for 30 years except by permission of Officers of the Royal Society or the person controlling access.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers of Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood: CSAC catalogue no. 17/11/74, 7 pp. Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In same repository:

Some of Hinshelwood's papers were accepted and listed by the Library of the Royal Society after his death in 1967. They consist of certificates and records of honours and awards, reprints of scientific and non-scientific writings, photographs and press-cuttings, and a box of uncatalogued manuscript material.

 

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Hinton, Christopher, Baron Hinton of Bankside, 1901-1983. Engineer.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London. Reference code: GB 0381 HIN
Title: Papers and correspondence of Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside, 1901-1983.
Dates of creation of material: 1913-1983.
Extent: 93 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hinton was born at Tisbury, Wiltshire. The son of a schoolmaster, he became at 16 an engineering apprentice with the Great Western Railway at Swindon. At 22 he was awarded the William Henry Allen scholarship of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers which sent him to Trinity College, Cambridge. He took a first class degree in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos in two years, spending the final year on research under C.E. Inglis. Hinton's first post on leaving Cambridge was on the staff of Brunner Mond & Company (later part of ICI) where he became Chief Engineer at 29. In 1940 he was seconded to the Ministry of Supply becoming, in 1942, Deputy Director General in charge of the Royal Filling Factories. At the end of the war he was asked to take charge of the production organisation of the newly-formed Department of Atomic Energy and when the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) was set up in 1954 he became a member of the Board and Managing Director of the Industrial Group. In the ten years, 1946-1956, his organisation was responsible for designing and building the factory at Springfields for extracting uranium from ore, purifying it into fuel elements for the nuclear reactors, for building Windscale with its production piles and complex chemical plants, the diffusion plant at Capenhurst, the first industrial nuclear plant at Calder Hall and the fast breeder reactor with its ancillary fuel element and chemical plants at Dounreay. In 1957 Hinton became the first Chairman of the newly-created Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) - a position he held until his retirement from full-time salaried employment in 1964. One of Hinton's interests during his Chairmanship was the development of the Board's research organisation; this interest continued until his death in his capacity as Deputy Chairman of the Electricity Supply Research Council.

Hinton continued to make many important contributions to public service in his retirement. In 1965 he worked for six months in the Ministry of Transport and afterwards became a Special Adviser to the World Bank. He served as Chairman of the International Executive Committee of the World Energy Conference, 1962-1968, retaining an interest in its affairs for the rest of his life. He was the first Chancellor of the University of Bath, 1966-1980. He was much involved with the activities and organisation of the engineering profession. He was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1966-1967, Chairman of the MacRobert Award Evaluation Panel from the award's inception in 1969 to 1977, President of the Council of Engineering Institutions from 1976 to 1983 and from 1976 to 1981 first President of the Fellowship of Engineering (later Royal Academy of Engineering) which he did so much to found. Hinton was elected FRS in 1954 (Tercentenary Lecture 1960, Rumford Medal 1970). He was knighted in 1951 (KBE 1957), made a life peer in 1965 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1976.

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1984-1985 via the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.  Returned to the IME 1986.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers are extensive. Although they cannot be said to present a full account of Hinton's life and work, being largely concerned with his later activities, they contain important documentation of his earlier career in the form of personal diaries, unpublished autobiographical writings, and frequent allusions and reminiscences in correspondence with former colleagues, historians of science and others. The biographical material is dominated by Hinton's unpublished autobiography and the 'non-secret diaries' on which it was based. His interests in atomic energy and electricity supply are represented by lectures selected and arranged by Hinton and general correspondence and papers, 1966-1983. His association with engineering institutions is extensively documented especially the Council of Engineering Institutions, 1967-1983, and the Fellowship of Engineering, 1975-1983. There are correspondence and papers relating to Hinton's House of Lord's committee work, 1968-1983, and to his Chancellorship of the University of Bath, 1966-1980. There are also records of his consultancies for the Ministry of Transport in 1965 and the World Bank, 1965-1983, and of his association with the World Energy Conference, 1962-1983. The remaining general correspondence is relatively slight since most of Hinton's correspondence on his activities was kept with the related material. There are, however, daily carbons, 1978-1983, which record his total activity over a given period of time and at the very end of his career. There is a photographic record of Hinton's official career from the 1950s, a film entitled 'Christopher Hinton', 1956 and gramophone records of talks by Hinton for the BBC on 'The ABC of atomic energy' ca 1959.

Additional material subsequently deposited: Letters of Hinton to Gavin Edward Wyatt, 1970-1983. 5 items.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical and autobiographical, Energy, Engineering, House of Lords, University of Bath, Lectures and publications, Consultancies, Societies and organisations, Correspondence, Non-print material. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Generally open access by appointment. Some files within the collection are classed as personal and confidential - requests for access for stated purposes are treated sympathetically.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside: CSAC catalogue no. 116/7/86, 214 pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In same repository

Institution of Mechanical Engineers Council Minutes (COU) and Council Papers (COP) give background to Hinton's period in office, both on Council and as President of the Institution.

In other repositories:

Additional material was deposited by Hinton during his lifetime at Churchill College Archives Centre, Cambridge: 5 boxes re lectures in the 1950s and 1960s; papers and autobiography. Reference: GB0014 HINT.

 

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Hinton, Howard Everest, 1912-1977. Entomologist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Bristol University Library.  Reference code: GB 0003 DM1718
Title: Papers and correspondence of Howard Everest Hinton, 1912-1977
Dates of creation of material: 1864-1979.
Extent: 5 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hinton was born on 24 August 1912 in Matehuala, Mexico where his parents had moved in connexion with his father's work as metallurgist and mining engineer. He was educated at schools in California and at the University of California at Berkeley (B.Sc. 1934) before doing postgraduate work at King's College, Cambridge (Ph.D 1939). He was appointed Junior Curator at the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge in 1937 and in 1939 Assistant Keeper British Museum (Natural History), a post he held until 1949 when he was appointed Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Bristol. He remained at the University of Bristol for the remainder of his career, being made Reader in Entomology in 1951, Professor of Entomology in 1964 and Professor of Zoology and Head of Department in 1970. He resigned as Head of Department in July 1977 for reasons of ill-health and resumed his personal Chair. He died on 2 August 1977.

Hinton began collecting insects from the age of nine, his interest in natural history acquired from his father, an amateur naturalist of some note. By the time he received his B.Sc. he had already seventeen published papers. His pre-war research was concentrated on the classification of beetles but Hinton's entomological interests were subsequently broadened, initially by his wartime work on insect pests of stored products, and then by his appointment as Lecturer at Bristol University, for which he was required to teach a wide range of entomological subjects new to him. Hinton developed his research interests to cover many fields such as insect metamorphosis, insect pupae, respiratory adaptations, cryptobiosis in insects (in which connexion he posited a new theory of the origin of life on Earth) and insect coloration. He authored over 300 publications, his work culminating in the three volume Biology of Insect Eggs which he completed just before his death. Hinton also founded and edited the Journal of Insect Physiology and the journal Insect Biochemistry. He served as President of the Society for British Entomology 1954-1955 and the Royal Entomological Society of London 1969-1970.

Hinton was elected FRS in 1961. He died on 2 August 1977.

Hinton was very conscious of his distinguished family background. His paternal great-great grandfather was John Howard Hinton, author of Elements of natural history and an introduction to systematic zoology, and his paternal great grandfathers were the mathematician George Boole FRS and James Hinton, an aural surgeon. His grandfather Charles Howard Hinton was Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Great-great uncles included Sir George Everest FRS, the Surveyor General of India, and A.C. Haddon FRS. Hinton's first cousin once removed was Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor FRS.

See G. Salt, 'Howard Everest Hinton', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 24 (1978), 151-182.

Custodial history:

Received for cataloguing in June 1995 from Dr James Hinton, son.  Placed in Bristol University Library 1996.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The collection, though small, includes significant records of Hinton's family background and early entomological research. The biographical material includes autobiographical drafts, notes made by Hinton for his Royal Society personal record, tributes and obituaries and many letters of condolence received by his widow Margaret Hinton, some with recollections of Hinton. The largest component, however, is family material. There is correspondence with his father and two brothers G.B. and J.C. Hinton, and also with more distant relations. Of particular note is that with his first cousin once removed, Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor FRS, covering the period 1947-1974. There is also historical material relating to his great-great grandfather George Boole FRS. The family papers are supplemented by photographs. Research material is particularly notable for the notebooks which cover Hinton's work collecting and classifying beetle specimens over the period 1928-1937. They are generally in the form of journals and often record not only Hinton's collecting activities but his plans for the future, social engagements, etc. The period covered by the notebooks includes Hinton's visit to South America in 1937 with the Percy Sladen Expedition to Lake Titicaca. Hinton's subsequent journeys that year to the Amazon basin and French Guiana are also documented. Other material relating to the visit includes lists of specimens and photographs. Material relating to research also includes correspondence with V.B. Wigglesworth 1947-1974, chiefly on aspects of insect physiology, and material from a visit to China in 1960.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical, Research. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: No known restrictions or closure.  Visits by appointment.  Some form of identification required.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Howard Everest Hinton: NCUACS catalogue no.59/2/96, 32pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In same repository

DM755 - Obituary in Univeristy Newsletter by C.J.M., 18 August 1977.
DM1012 - Drafts, reprints (by others) and notes, 1928-1979. 25 boxfiles.

Two sets of reprints were donated to the Special Collections by the Biological Sciences Library, and by the University Biology Department.  Although both series overlap they contain enough non-duplicate material to be both worth keeping.  Both contain a detailed bibliography.
DM1845/1/1-7 Bound reprints from the Biological Sciences Library 1930-1977. 7 volumes.
DM1845/2/1-16 Bound and loose reprints from the University Biology Department 1930-1977. 15 volumes and folder of reprints (1.2 linear metres).

 

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Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd 1914-1998. Knight, physiologist

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Trinity College Cambridge.  Reference code: GB 0016 A.L. HODGKIN
Title: Papers and correspondence of Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM FRS, 1914-1998.
Dates of creation of material: 1902-2000.
Extent: ca 3,000 items

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on 5 February 1914.  His father, George Hodgkin, a Quaker, trained as a civil engineer before finding employment in a bank in Banbury.  He died in Baghdad while engaged in relief work when Hodgkin was still an infant.  Hodgkin’s family  background was notable for distinguished and varied intellectual achievement.  His grandfather Thomas Hodgkin was a mediaeval historian; his great uncle (also called Thomas) was the physician and anatomist who gave his name to Hodgkin’s Disease; and his great-great grandfather was the pioneer meteorologist Luke Howard.  A cousin (through marriage) was the crystallographer and 1964 Nobel laureate for Chemistry, Dorothy Hodgkin. 

 

During his boyhood Hodgkin developed a strong interest in ornithology, undertaking detailed studies of bird behaviour during stays with various relatives around the country.  After attending the Downs School, Colwall, Herefordshire and Gresham’s School, Holt, Norfolk, he won a scholarship to Trinity College Cambridge in 1932 to study for the Natural Sciences Tripos.   After opting for physiology in Part II he obtained a First Class.  He started research on the excitation of nerve in his final undergraduate year and was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College in 1936 - the earliest opportunity for election.  Hodgkin’s postgraduate work, following a suggestion from E.D. Adrian, centred on experiments with crab nerve fibre and resulted in the first direct observation of a ‘local response’ to an electrical shock.  This observation challenged the widely-accepted ‘all-or-none’ theory of response developed by K. Lucas.

 

After being awarded a travelling fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1937, Hodgkin spent a year at the Rockefeller Institute in New York and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he met K.S. Cole and H.J. Curtis.  While at Woods Hole, he gained first-hand experience of Cole and Curtis’s measurements of membrane conductivity using the giant nerve fibres of squid.  This short period had a profound influence on the course of Hodgkin’s scientific career.  He began his own experiments on squid in the summer of 1939 at the laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, working for the first time with A.F. Huxley.  However, this work was soon interrupted by the outbreak of World War Two. 

 

On the outbreak of war Hodgkin volunteered to work on aviation medicine at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough before being transferred to the Telecommunications Research Establishment in February 1940.  At the TRE he assisted in the successful development of centimetric airborne radar for aircraft interception before working on ways of using radar to defend British night bombers.  He was also posted to the British Air Commission and spent three months in the USA in early 1944 exchanging information on radar work.

 

In 1946 Hodgkin and Huxley resumed their research on the nerve impulse using squid, initially attempting to understand the questions regarding the movement of sodium and potassium ions across resting and excited membranes.  The experimental work was carried out during the summer seasons at the MBA, Plymouth.  The 1948 season saw the introduction of Hodgkin’s ‘voltage clamp’ equipment and the results obtained with it the following year eventually resulted in the publication of five papers in 1952.  The work represented an enormous advance in the understanding of the ionic processes involved in the nervous impulse and was recognised by the award of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 jointly to Hodgkin, Huxley and J.C. Eccles (who worked independently of the former two).  Anthony Tucker (Guardian, 21 December 1998) explained that Hodgkin and Huxley’s work ‘although seemingly isolated and remote, is fundamental to understanding not only the way our nervous system works, but in the study of the underlying biochemistry of diseases underlying neural malfunction’.

 

Hodgkin became Foulerton Research Professor of the Royal Society in 1952.  He now moved on to study a range of problems of nerve membrane permeability, still using squid as the basis for his investigations.  His work on muscle with P. Horowicz in the late 1950s, and later with R.H. Adrian and W.K. Chandler, added to the understanding of the mechanism by which electrical excitation of muscle is linked to its mechanical contraction.  His interest in the physiology of vision began at Woods Hole in 1962 during a visit to the USA.  Working with M.G.F. Fuortes, he studied the eye of the Limulus crab and recorded the electrical changes in an activated visual cell.  From 1970, following his election to the John Humphrey Plummer Professorship of Biophysics, Hodgkin pursued research that could be carried out entirely in Cambridge. This focused on the physiology of vision, in particular in collaboration with D. Baylor of Stanford University.  He retired from the chair in 1981.  

 

In addition to the Nobel Prize, Hodgkin was accorded many honours for his work.  He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1948, giving its Croonian Lecture in 1957 and Tercentenary Lecture in 1960 and receiving the Royal Medal (1958) and Copley Medal (1965).    He was knighted in 1972 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1973.  Although first and foremost a dedicated research scientist, Hodgkin nevertheless served as President of the Marine Biological Association, 1966-1976, Chancellor of the University of Leicester, 1971-1984, President of the Royal Society, 1970-1975, and Master of Trinity College Cambridge, 1978-1984.  During his Presidency he steered the Royal Society through a period of financial difficulties and changing relationships between the Government and scientific Research Councils.

 

Hodgkin died in December 1998 after long illness.

 

For further information about Hodgkin see his autobiography, Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War, Cambridge University Press, 1992, and the memoir by Andrew Huxley, ‘Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin’, Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society, vol 46 (2000), 219-246.

Custodial history
The papers were received from Trinity College Cambridge in June 2002. They were returned to Trinity College in April 2005

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

There is varied and significant biographical material, 1902-2000, with substantial coverage of Hodgkin’s childhood and school years.  There are childhood drawings, some showing his very early interest in ornithology, school reports, academic notes and essays, and ornithological notebooks, essays and photographs (1924-1932).  Among the material from his undergraduate days are accounts of experiments done at The Freshwater Biological Association, Lake Windermere, May 1932, his first experience of research.  The family correspondence chiefly consists of letters from Hodgkin (and later his family) to his mother, covering most years from 1923 to 1977, and there is also some of Hodgkin’s correspondence with friends and colleagues.  In addition, there are papers relating to various occasions and functions, biographical material on E.D. Adrian and W.A.H. Rushton, and photographs of Hodgkin (some featuring scientific colleagues and friends) dating from the 1920s to 1984.

 

University of Cambridge material chiefly comprises papers relating to the running of the Physiological Laboratory, with particular reference to Hodgkin’s research group.  The most significant documentation is of laboratory staff, principally scientific colleagues and research workers, covering professional matters and, in several cases, research and publications.  There are also correspondence and papers concerning laboratory funding, the purchase of equipment and animals for use in research, and other matters.  Hodgkin’s teaching in the Department of Physiology is represented by lecture notes, course papers etc, while there is some material relating to Trinity College business, chiefly during his period as Master.  A further group of papers reflects Hodgkin’s involvement in the Council of the School of Biological Sciences and other committees for Biophysical Chemistry and Colloid Science.

 

The research record is the most substantial component of the archive and provides comprehensive documentation of Hodgkin’s three main areas of physiological investigation: nerve, muscle and vision.  A series of over a hundred notebooks in Hodgkin’s hand (the hands of others, such as A.F. Huxley and B. Katz also appear) are divided into ‘Experimental’ and ‘Theoretical and general’, and cover the period 1934-1987.  The ‘Experimental’ series begins with Hodgkin’s first research on nerve - conduction blocking experiments in frog’s nerve - carried out in his final undergraduate year.  Two notebooks were used during his important year at the Rockefeller Institute and the Woods Hole laboratory (1937-1938).  A number document Hodgkin and Huxley’s experiments on squid (1939, 1946-1949), including some using the ‘voltage clamp’.  From the 1950s there is coverage of further work on nerve, experiments on muscle with P. Horowicz (late 1950s), and research on vision beginning with the Limulus experiments in 1962 (see ‘Outline of career’ above).  The ‘Theoretical and general’ notebooks provide background theory to the three aforementioned topics and also include notes on general physiology.  The bulk of the research documentation comprises files which provide an enormous amount of experimental data and theory from all periods of Hodgkin’s career and include the particular topics mentioned above.  There is a significant amount of early research material (to 1939), particularly covering the conduction blocking and ‘local response’ experiments (the latter at Woods Hole).  The post-1939 files include a few papers relating to Hodgkin’s wartime work at the TRE.  The very long sequence of post-1960 files is largely on vision.  There is very little correspondence although collaborators such as A.F. Huxley and M.G.F. Fuortes are represented, as is J.C. Eccles.

 

An important group of drafts and publications material dates from ca 1938 to 1988, though the earliest published paper is from 1945.  This material is closely related to the research record outlined above.  A chronological sequence of drafts of published papers and unpublished drafts also includes much experimental data and calculations.  There is unpublished material relating to Hodgkin and Huxley’s first experiments on squid nerve fibre (1939) and drafts of their first paper (published in 1945) resulting from their 1939 work at Plymouth.  Also documenting pre-war research are drafts of Hodgkin’s 1946 paper with W.A.H. Rushton on crab and lobster nerve fibres.  The steady stream of papers on Hodgkin and Huxley’s critical work on the nerve impulse which appeared between 1947 and 1952 are partly represented: there are drafts of some of the papers accompanied by large quantities of experimental data, calculations and notes (in both Hodgkin and Huxley’s hands), with some correspondence.  Included are later notes (1957) which recollect some of their theoretical analysis and discuss the chronology of the ‘sodium hypothesis’ which they demonstrated by experiment in 1947.  Hodgkin’s work after 1952 on nerve, muscle and vision is well represented, in particular the publications on muscle with R.H. Adrian and W.K. Chandler, 1966-1972.  There are notes, data and scientific correspondence found with the drafts.  There is also editorial correspondence and a set of off-prints.

 

There is a chronological sequence of drafts of Hodgkin’s lectures and speeches delivered at various scientific congresses and symposia, social functions and other occasions, 1950-1987.  Included are the 18th International Physiological Congress, Copenhagen 1950; symposium on the neuron, Cold Spring Harbour, USA, 1952; Royal Society Croonian Lecture, 1957; Royal Society Tercentenary Lecture, 1960; Sherrington Lectures, University of Liverpool, 1961; Nobel Lecture, Stockholm, 1963; and Royal Society Anniversary Addresses, 1970, 1973-1975.  Included also are speeches made by Hodgkin as Chancellor of the University of Leicester; for various functions during his Mastership of Trinity College Cambridge; at occasions in connexion with his Presidency of the Royal Society; and memorial addresses.

 

Visits and conferences material covers the period, 1961-1998, and presents material chiefly relating to foreign visits to attend scientific congresses or as a representative of the Royal Society (some are during his Presidency).  Included are the following visits: 22nd and 26th International Congresses of Physiological Sciences, Leiden, Netherlands, 1962, and New Delhi, India, 1974; to the Soviet Union and China in connexion with scientific exchanges, 1967 and 1972; to Kenya chiefly to view the work of the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, 1975; to Iran concerning the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Iran, 1976; and to the USA on several occasions, such as the Rockefeller University, New York, to give the first Hester Adrian Memorial Lecture, 1968, and to the Harvard Medical School, Boston, as Dunham Lecturer, 1976.

 

A number of scientific societies and organisations are represented in the archive.  The most substantial group of correspondence and papers documents Hodgkin’s long involvement with the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.  There is correspondence with successive Directors of the MBA’s Plymouth laboratory, 1959-1984, as well as some scientific correspondence.  The Royal Society material is also significant, covering a variety of business during the period of Hodgkin’s Presidency (1970-1975) and including correspondence relating to the drafting of his Anniversary Address as incoming President and correspondence concerning his 1975 Kenya visit.  Also represented are the Medical Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation and the Physiological Society.

 

Hodgkin’s correspondence spans the years, 1945-1990 and chiefly comprises four sequences of scientific and general correspondence with colleagues, 1945-1969.  Among the correspondents are E.D. Adrian, K.S. Cole, J.C. Eccles, P. Fatt, P. Horowicz, B. Katz, R.D. Keynes, W.L. Nastuk, M.F. Perutz, P. Rous and R. Stampfli. 

 

Non-textual material chiefly consists of a major series of photographic films from research, 1937-1963.  There is also illustrative material for lectures, for example photographic slides, and publications.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical, University of Cambridge, Research, Drafts and publications, Lectures and speeches, Visits and conferences,  Societies and organisations, Correspondence, Non-textual material. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: By appointment only.
Language: English.

Finding aids: Printed Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin:  NCUACS catalogue no. 136/1/05, 357pp .  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

 

Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, 1910-1994. Biochemist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Bodleian Library Oxford. Reference code: GB 0161 D.M.C. Hodgkin papers
Title: Papers and correspondence of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1910-1994
Dates of creation of material: 1919-2003
Extent: 232 boxes. ca 2600 items

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot was born in Cairo on 12 May 1910. She was educated at the Sir John Leman School, Beccles, Norfolk and Somerville College, Oxford where she read chemistry 1928-1932. Apart from two years research at Cambridge University after graduation she remained in Oxford for the rest of her career. Here for twenty-five years she combined teaching chemistry at Somerville, where her students included the future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with research at the highest level. She became University lecturer and demonstrator in 1946, University Reader in X-ray crystallography in 1956 and from 1960 to official retirement in 1977 Wolfson Research Professor of the Royal Society. In 1937 she married Thomas Lionel Hodgkin with whom she had three children.

Dorothy Hodgkin carried out her first research at Oxford in 1931-1932 with H.M. Powell on the structure of thallium diakyl halides. She then went to Cambridge to work for two years with J.D. Bernal who had just been appointed to start research on the study of crystals by X-ray diffraction and had begun to look at biologically interesting molecules. The research at Cambridge included work on sterols, vitamin B1 and the protein pepsin and on her return to Oxford she decided to concentrate on one crystal structure in detail and (with C.H. Carlisle) correctly analysed cholesterol iodide, the first complex organic molecule to be determined completely by X-ray crystallography. Early in the Second World War the successful tests with penicillin extracts on infected mice by Howard Florey and his team in Oxford led to urgent attempts to determine its chemical structure. Hodgkin and her coworkers accomplished this in three years with X-ray techniques, showing conclusively that the formula of penicillin included lactam and thiazolidine rings. She later elucidated the structure of cephalosporin C, an antibiotic closely related to penicillin. After 1948 Hodgkin began work on the X-ray analysis of the anti pernicious anaemia factor vitamin B12. The red crystals of vitamin B12 were supplied by E.L. Smith of Glaxo Laboratories and after a lengthy step-by-step analysis lasting nearly ten years she and her team found the structure. The processing of data was aided by three of the first electronic computers located at Manchester University, the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington and the University of California, Los Angeles, and Hodgkin played a leading part in the campaign to provide computer facilities at Oxford University. After the success of the vitamin B12 work Hodgkin and her team refocused their research effort on the crystal structure of insulin - she had taken the first X-ray photographs of insulin crystals in 1935 - and were able to announce the three-dimensional structure of rhombohedral 2 Zn insulin in 1969. Research on insulin refinements continued into the 1980s.

Apart from her scientific research career at Oxford University, Hodgkin undertook a number of prominent public and professional responsibilities including in the UK, Chancellor of Bristol University, 1970-1988, and President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1977-1978, and internationally, President of the International Union of Crystallography, 1972-1975. Hodgkin's involvement in humanitarian and peace issues was given impetus by the Vietnam War. She became Vice-President of the Medical Aid Committee for Vietnam in 1965 and President in 1971, visiting North Vietnam in 1971 and 1974. Her second major commitment in the area of peace and international understanding was to the Pugwash movement (Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs), which she served as President, 1976-1988.

Hodgkin was elected FRS in 1947 (Royal Medal 1956, Copley Medal 1976; Tercentenary Lecture 1960, Bakerian Lecture 1972), and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances. In 1965 she became only the second woman to be appointed to the Order of Merit. She died in 1994.

The publication of the first catalogue in 1994 has been followed by Georgina Ferry’s 1998 biography and by the memoir written by G.G. Dodson for the Royal Society (Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 48, 2002).

Custodial history

Original material received for cataloguing in 1991-1994 from Hodgkin and placed in Bodleian Library (gift) in 1994; supplementary material is personal and family papers remaining in family hands in 1994.  These were transferred to the Bodleian Library in Oxford for the use of Georgina Ferry whose biography, Dorothy Hodgkin.  A Life was published by Granta Books in 1998.   In addition, the NCUACS received early notebooks from Hodgkin’s family and Georgina Ferry made available a number of items of a biographical and scientific nature. 

 

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers provide a very full record of Dorothy Hodgkin's career, research and wider professional and public responsibilities. Biographical material includes records of Hodgkin's career, honours and awards, 1928-1990, including documentation of the award of the Nobel Prize, family and personal correspondence and drafts of an unfinished autobiography. Research material forms by far the largest component in the collection and comprises very extensive documentation of the major topics of insulin, penicillin and vitamin B12 covering a period of sixty years from about 1928 to 1988. Most of the material was found in Hodgkin's box folders whose contents included correspondence, drafts for reports and publications, notebooks, notes and data. J.D. Bernal, with whom Hodgkin worked in Cambridge 1932-1934, and very many of her later collaborators including C.W. Bunn (penicillin) and E.L. Smith (vitamin B12) are represented in the papers by correspondence, drafts, notes and data.

Although not extensive there is useful documentation of Hodgkin's Oxford University career including teaching in the 1940s and 1950s, her tenure of the Wolfson Research Professorship of the Royal Society, 1960-1977, the funding and administration of her research and the provision of equipment and supplies including the use of computer facilities at other institutions in the UK and USA and their development at Oxford. There are chronological sequences of material relating to Hodgkin's scientific publications and public lectures and substantial assemblages of material relating to her Royal Society memoirs of J.D. Bernal and Kathleen Lonsdale. There is documentation of Hodgkin's involvement with 16 British and international societies and organisations including Bristol University, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Physics, especially its X-ray Analysis Group established 1943, the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) and the Royal Society. Her major commitments to Bristol University, where she was Chancellor for nearly twenty years, and to the International Union, which she served as President and whose congresses she attended 1948-1993, are particularly well documented. There is a chronological sequence of material relating to Hodgkin's scientific visits and conferences, 1936-1993, though the great bulk of the material is from the period after the award of the Nobel Prize in 1964. There is evidence for example of her interest in maintaining scientific contacts with the USSR and China during the Cold War and of visa difficulties in respect of visiting the USA during the same period.

There is also documentation of the wide range of peace and humanitarian causes with which Hodgkin was involved. Represented are her major commitments to the Medical Aid Committee for Vietnam and the Pugwash movement and other organisations and topics including the J.D. Bernal Peace Library, Palestine, Russian dissidents and the Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (SANA) organisation. There is an extensive scientific correspondence in which many of her distinguished mentors and contemporaries are represented such as J.D. Bernal, W.L. Bragg, J.W. Cornforth, P.P. Ewald, I. Fankuchen, H. Lipson, Kathleen Lonsdale, A.L. Patterson, Linus Pauling, M.F. Perutz, Robert Robinson, R.L.M. Synge and Dorothy Wrinch, and very many of the younger scientists from Britain and overseas who researched in various capacities in her laboratory. The sequence is also noteworthy for the significant number of women scientists who trained in Hodgkin's laboratory. Non-textual material in the collection includes photographs, photographic slides and sound recordings. There are photographs of Hodgkin and scientific colleagues including J.D. Bernal, I. Fankuchen, H.M. Powell and colleagues from Oxford laboratory, P.L. Kapitza and F.H.C. Crick, a photograph album recording Pugwash occasions, 1969-88, photographic slides for Hodgkin's lectures especially on insulin and vitamin B12 and sound recordings including the 1973 Nobel Guest Lecture and her Chancellor's Address to the Bristol University Education Department in 1974.

 

The supplementary papers cover the period 1919-2003.  Family and personal correspondence constitutes the main contribution of the present collection.  However, there is additional material from all aspects of Hodgkin’s life and work and considerable overlap with the 1994 catalogue.

 

Biographical and personal material is the most substantial component, containing much new material relating to Hodgkin, her family and friends.  There are autobiographical and biographical writings including the typescript of the projected (incomplete) biography of Hodgkin by Francis Pagan.  Among the ‘Juvenilia’ are notebooks and diaries, some home-made, recording her earliest work at home 1919-1924, including history, poems, nature study with her own illustrations, and chemistry.  There is additional documentation of her many honours and awards from the Fellowship of the Chemical Society at the age of 21 in 1922 to a celebratory volume for her 80th birthday in 1990.     

 

The extensive family correspondence documents the attainments and activities of three generations: Hodgkin’s parents John and Molly Crowfoot; herself, her sisters and her husband; and her children.  Hodgkin’s mother was a gifted and energetic woman who, while resident with her husband in Cairo, the Sudan and the Middle East and accompanying him on archaeological expeditions, Nablus, Jerash and Samaria, made herself an authority on flowering plants, weaving and dyeing techniques, pottery and glass-making, publishing extensively on these topics.  The expeditions, the finds and camp life are described in lively terms, and often result in requests to Hodgkin for help in identifying mosaics, crystals, plants and herbs.  Hodgkin’s daughter Prudence Elisabeth (‘Liz’) followed family tradition in making a career in Africa from where she wrote regularly.  By far the largest component, however, is Hodgkin’s almost daily correspondence with her beloved husband Thomas, whom she met and married in 1937.  This famous record of a great love as well as a personal and family account is presented in the catalogue with an extended introduction.   Interestingly, part of Hodgkin’s mind remained in thrall to her research and she could move disconcertingly from an emotional level to practical laboratory affairs.  The tradition of regular letter-writing, in a pre-electronic age, combined with open-heartedness and shared humanitarian and political concerns, links family members and also some of Hodgkin’s closest friends such as Margery Fry who was Principal of Somerville College Oxford when Hodgkin was an undergraduate, Betty Murray who was a contemporary of Hodgkin’s at Somerville and - in a somewhat different key - the flamboyant Somerville Fellow Enid Starkie.

 

The research material usefully complements that previously catalogued.  It includes undergraduate notebooks, the work for her Oxford Part II thesis, her Cambridge doctoral thesis, her earliest work on insulin and correspondence and research material relating to J.D. Bernal.  Furthermore, the principal interest of the publications and lectures material is Bernal and Hodgkin’s writings about him, especially her memoir for the Royal Society, ‘John Desmond Bernal’, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 26, 1980, usefully complementing the Bernal material presented in the 1994 catalogue.  Societies and organisations material is not extensive, the most substantially documented organisations being the Children’s Medical Charity based at Westminster Hospital (Hodgkin was a scientific adviser from 1983) and the Institut de la Vie founded in Paris in 1960 by Maurice Marois.  Likewise, visits and conferences material is not extensive.  It deals with visits in Hodgkin’s later years, many to China and Eastern Europe, several of which are additional to those in the previous catalogue.  Documentation of Hodgkin’s peace and humanitarian interests is supplemented by some additional material on Birzeit University Palestine, and also on several international conferences on peace and disarmament, which she attended in her later years.

 

There is an alphabetical sequence of Hodgkin’s scientific correspondents, including Hongying Liao, M.F. Perutz, D.P. Riley, C.H. Waddington and D. Wrinch, 1931-1993.  Of special interest are the letters and data documenting the research on vitamin B12 by K.N. Trueblood at UCLA in collaboration with Hodgkin’s team in Oxford.

 

Non-text material includes some interesting photographs of a 1924 trip to Egypt and the Sudan, drawings of mosaics and tesserae relating to archaeological finds by Hodgkin’s parents, and glass plates of early research on insulin, 1935-1936.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical, Research, Oxford University, Publications, lectures and broadcasts, Societies and organisations, Visits and conferences, Peace and humanitarian interests, Correspondence, Non-text material. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Entry permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card or an Oxford University Card displaying the Bodleian logo. All applicants for new or replacement cards must apply in person, with a recommendation and payment if required, and with proof of their identity.

Certain items not available for periods of 30, 40 or 50 years from date of writing.

Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogues of the papers and correspondence of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin: NCUACS catalogue no. 47/3/94, 362pp and NCUACS catalogue no. 135/8/04, 119pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath
Link to First catalogue: vol 1 A-C (582k bytes), vol 2 D-J (628k bytes)

ALLIED MATERIALS

In other repositories

Papers of Hodgkin's parents John Winter and Grace Mary Crowfoot and her husband Thomas Lionel Hodgkin are retained in family hands.

Papers and correspondence of Thomas Lionel Hodgkin relating to higher education in Ghana are held by the Rhodes House Library, Oxford University.

Videotape interviews of Hodgkin are held in the Archives of the Biochemical Society and the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Two models showing the crystal structure of vitamin B 12 and two models made by Hodgkin to show the structure of pig insulin at a resolution of 2.8 Angstroms are held by the Science Museum. London.

A sketch by Graham Sutherland, a formal portrait by Bryan Organ and a study of Hodgkin's hands by Henry Moore are held by the Royal Society, London. A portrait by Maggi Hambling was commissioned for the National Portrait Gallery, London.

 

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Hogben, Lancelot Thomas, 1895-1975. Biologist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Special Collections, University of Birmingham Library. Reference code: GB 0150 US 11
Title:  Papers and correspondence of Lancelot Thomas Hogben, 1895-1975
Dates of creation of material: 1926-1985
Extent: 15 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hogben was born in Southsea, Hampshire on 9 December 1895 and educated at a small private school at Southsea, a Middlesex County Secondary School at Tottenham and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was successively Lecturer in Zoology at Imperial College, London, 1919-1922, Lecturer in Experimental Physiology, Edinburgh University, 1923-1925, Assistant Professor of Zoology, McGill University, 1925-1927, Professor of Zoology, Capetown University, 1927-1930, Professor of Social Biology, London School of Economics, 1930-1937, Regius Professor of Natural History, Aberdeen University, 1937-1941, Mason Professor of Zoology, Birmingham University, 1941-1947 and Professor of Medical Statistics, 1947-1961.

 

Hogben was one of the best-known scientists of his day, a polymath who made serious contributions to a wide range of disciplines such as vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, genetics, social biology, medical and applied statistics, and comparative linguistics. He was an outstanding scientific populariser whose 'self-educators' Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen were best-sellers. He was a socialist and scientific humanist.

Hogben was elected FRS in 1936 (Croonian Lecture 1942). He died in 1975.

See G.P. Wells, 'Lancelot Thomas Hogben', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 24 (1978), 183-221; Lancelot Hogben, scientific humanist : an unauthorized autobiography edited by Adrian and Anne Hogben (Woodbridge 1998).

Custodial history:

Original material received for cataloguing in 1979 and 1981 from Mrs K.A. Lloyd and Professor G.P. Wells, author of the Royal Society memoir of Hogben; first supplementary material received for cataloguing in 1991 from Mrs Catherine Stoye, daughter of Wells; second supplementary material received for cataloguing in September and December 1994 from Mrs Kathleen Lloyd.  Placed in Birmingham University Library in 1981, 1991 and 1995 respectively.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

Original material: The frequent changes of location in Hogben's career do much to explain the paucity of the remaining records. Thus, although several of Hogben's interests such as mathematics, statistics, language, and popular education are represented in the papers, there is little substantial scientific material, and virtually no correspondence despite his known long acquaintance with many leading figures in scientific and political life. There are, however, his unpublished 'Interglossa Dictionary', and drafts for a projected work 'Mathematics with the machine' and for his autobiographical writings 'Look Back with Laughter' and 'Professional Reminiscences'.

First supplementary material: The supplementary papers were assembled by Wells while preparing his Royal Society memoir, and include Wells's correspondence with Hogben's family, friends and colleagues, his notes and drafts for the memoir, and printed and duplicated background material.

Second supplementary material: The material includes further drafts of the autobiography left unfinished by Hogben at his death (subsequently published as Lancelot Hogben, scientific humanist : an unauthorized autobiography edited by Adrian and Anne Hogben (Woodbridge 1998), and the 'Hogben files' of his literary agent Helga Greene which add considerably to the documentation of his role as a scientific populariser.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical and personal, Notes and working papers, Drafts and publications, Correspondence. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: A Special Collections manuscript reader's card is required for access to all the archives and mansucript collections.  Cards are issued on  production of a letter of introduction and recommendation from a person of recognised position.  Booking is not required but it is advisable to make contact in advance of any visit.  Email: special-collections@bham.ac.uk.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed Catalogues of papers and correspondence of Lancelot Thomas Hogben: CSAC catalogue no. 78/2/81, 14pp, NCUACS supplementary catalogue no. 29/5/91, 14pp and NCUACS supplementary catalogue no. 53/2/95, 16 pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

Links to catalogues: Original material (50k bytes), 1st Supplement (33k bytes), 2nd Supplement (37k bytes)

 

 

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Hudson, Robert George Spencer, 1897-1965, and the Palaeontological Association.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code: GB 0060 PA
Repository: Museum Archives, Natural History Museum, London.
Title: Papers and correspondence of Robert George Spencer Hudson, 1897-1965, and the Palaeontological Association.
Dates of creation of material: 1956-1963.
Level of description: Fonds
Extent: 5 boxes (including later material, see Allied Materials below)

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hudson was born in Rugby and educated at the Lawrence Sheriffe School, Rugby and University College, London where he read geology, 1918-1920. He saw service with the army during the First World War. He was Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer and Professor of Geology, University of Leeds, 1922-1940, Geologist and Palaeontologist with the Iraq Petroleum Company, 1946-1958, and Professor of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin from 1961. Hudson's research interests were Carboniferous palaeontology, stratigraphy and sedimentation in the North of England, especially Yorkshire, and the geology and palaeontology of the Middle East. He was elected FRS in 1961.

The Palaeontological Association developed from the initiative of a group of young palaeontologists who had begun to meet at a Dining Club at the Gardenia Restaurant, London, early in 1955. Hudson was invited to join the group and played an important part in the early organisation and financing of the Association. An interim Committee was formed with Hudson as Chairman, and after a public discussion meeting on 30 January 1956 (also chaired by Hudson), the Inaugural Meeting was held on 27 February 1957. Hudson served as the first President of the Association, 1957-1959.

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1978-1979 from Dr W.S. McKerrow, a founder member of the Palaeontological Association.  Transferred to the Musuem Archives in 1996

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The material consists of the papers of Hudson relating to the Association, which were in his charge, and additional papers supplied by other officers of the Association. There are correspondence, memoranda and reports on the formation, funding and early years of the Association and its journal, Palaeontology.

Arrangement:

By section as follows: Correspondence and papers October 1956-March 1963, Reports and correspondence on manuscripts submitted for Palaeontology, Minutes, circulars and printed material. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Contact the repository for information.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Robert George Spencer Hudson, CSAC catalogue no. 66/4/79, 30 pp. Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In same repository

Palaeontological Association. Editorial files of the Association were deposited in 1995 (available for research in 2005); financial and publication papers deposited in 1998 (also available in 2005). five boxes. Local reference code PA.

 

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Hunter, Herbert, 1882-1959. Agricultural scientist.

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Rural History Centre, Reading University. Reference code: GB 0007 D77/26
Title: Papers and correspondence of Herbert Hunter, 1882-1959.
Dates of creation of material: 1898-1959.
Extent: 3 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

Hunter graduated in 1903 from Leeds University where he was one of the first two students to take the B.Sc. in Agriculture. He was then appointed officer in charge of the barley investigations being conducted by the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction in Ireland. It was during his work in Ireland that Hunter developed the Spratt-Archer variety of barley, which was for many years the most widely grown malting barley in Britain. In 1919 he was appointed Head of the Plant Breeding Division of the Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, and in 1923 moved to Cambridge to join R.H. Biffen, T.B. Wood and F.L. Engledow in the Plant Breeding Institute of the University School of Agriculture. Hunter became Director of the Plant Breeding Institute in 1936, and during the Second World War, also served as the Director of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge. After his retirement from the Plant Breeding Institute in 1946, Hunter served as President of the Council of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany for three years, 1951-1953.

Custodial history

Received for cataloguing in 1975 and 1977 from Miss Margaret Hunter, daughter.  Placed in Rural Hisotry Centre in 1977.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The papers are mainly of a biographical and personal nature. There are Hunter's reminiscences of colleagues and friends, and his collected press-cuttings which document the dramatic changes in plant breeding, crop production and the brewing industry during the first half of the twentieth century. There are a few notebooks and working files, and a little scientific correspondence, chiefly relating to the barley work. There is a notebook of the undergraduate lecture notes on soil which Hunter took at Leeds University. There is also the unpublished manuscript of Hunter's last book, 'Oats, Barley, Cultivation, Utilisation'.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Biographical and personal, Reminiscences, Notebooks and working papers, Correspondence, Publications. Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Open access.
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Herbert Hunter, CSAC catalogue no. 54/8/77, 10 pp. Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

ALLIED MATERIALS

In same repository

Copies of published work by Hunter: The Barley Crop (1926 and 1952 edns) and Recent Advances in Agricultural Plant Breeding (1933).

 

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Hutchison, Sir (William) Kenneth, 1903-1989. Knight.  Engineer

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Repository: Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge.  Reference code: GB 0014 HTSN
Title: Papers and correspondence of Sir (William) Kenneth Hutchison, 1903-1989.
Dates of creation of material:  1900-1989
Extent: 9 boxes

CONTEXT

Biographical history

William Kenneth Hutchison was born on 30 October 1903 in Assam, India, where his father managed a tea garden.  After the death of his mother in 1906 he was brought up in Scotland where he attended the Edinburgh Academy as a day boy.  In 1922 he obtained a scholarship in natural sciences at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and after his third year examinations, Hutchison spent his research year as C.N. Hinshelwood’s personal research assistant investigating the decomposition of acetone.  Several publications resulted from this research, and he graduated with First Class Honours in Chemistry, but Hutchison decided against an academic career and turned instead to industry.

In 1926 he joined the Gas Light and Coke Company as a research chemist, working to improve the performance of existing gasworks plant.  After several years Hutchison moved to the company’s Fulham Laboratory as a Senior Chemist.  During the mid-1930s he took a leading role in the design and construction of a new benzole plant at Kensal Green.  The plant began operating in 1937 with immediate success, and Hutchison’s work on it was recognised in 1942 with the award of the Moulton Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.  Hutchison was seconded to the Air Ministry’s Directorate of Hydrogen Production in January 1941 as an Assistant Director and in June 1942 succeeded Viscount Ridley as Director.  The Directorate’s main task was to organise the manufacture and supply of hydrogen to support the balloon barrages flying over major cities and other significant targets.  In January 1944 Hutchison took on wider responsibilities with appointment as Director of Compressed Gases and saw to it that there was an effective supply system to meet the demands of British and American aircraft for high flying oxygen.

In 1945 he returned to work for the Gas Light and Coke Company. He was appointed Controller of By-products in December 1945 and in late 1946 became a Managing Director of the Company and a member of its Court of Directors. Following the nationalisation of the industry, Hutchison was appointed Chairman of the South Eastern Gas Board. Hutchison was also made a founder member of the newly constituted Gas Council (Deputy Chairman 1960-1966).  During the 1950s and 1960s Hutchison played a crucial role in transforming the fortunes of the gas industry.  This was partly done by embracing oil rather than coal as the industry’s raw material in order to make production cheaper and less capital intensive.  As well as encouraging technological developments, such as the shipment of liquid natural gas to the United Kingdom, Hutchison also took important steps to increase gas sales by promoting the idea of whole-house heating.  He took on the task of improving the gas industry’s public image with a successful  national advertising campaign which promoted ‘High Speed Gas’.  He was also a driving force behind the Council’s active involvement in seismic surveys in the North Sea, which led to the discovery of significant natural gas reserves.

At the end of 1966 Hutchison retired from the gas industry, although he did work as a consultant to the oil company, Amoco from 1967 to 1975.  A large part of Hutchison’s retirement was taken up with the writing of his autobiography, which was published in 1987 as High Speed Gas.  He died on 28 November 1989.

Hutchison was elected FRS in 1966 and FEng in 1976.  He was knighted in 1962.

Custodial history

Received for cataloging in August 1997 from Mr D.R. Martin to whom they were bequeathed by Hutchison.  Placed in Churchill Archives Centre in 1999.

CONTENT HISTORY

Scope and content summary

The largest group of papers relate to the writing of Hutchison’s autobiography, High Speed Gas.  There are drafts of his autobiographical writings and some correspondence regarding the book’s publication but the bulk of the material is made up of Hutchison’s working papers, which include typescript drafts, original source material, correspondence with friends, family and former colleagues and copies of some of his articles, lectures and speeches.  The original source material includes Hutchison family letters from the early 1900s and a little correspondence relating to Hutchison’s war work.  There is also photographic material relating to the autobiography.  There are chronological series of speeches and lectures, 1948-1971 and published articles, 1960-1985.  The material relating to Hutchison’s articles includes newspaper cuttings of his articles for the Financial Times on gas industry developments, written as Deputy Chairman of the Gas Council.  There is also correspondence and papers relating to a Royal Society biographical memoir of F.J. Dent and a paper on the history of the gas industry for Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, both written during his retirement.  There is a very little visits and conferences material between 1961 and 1972.

Arrangement

By section as follows: Autobiographical, Lectures, speeches and articles, Visits and conferences.  Index of correspondents.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS & USE

Access: Readers intending to use the Archives Centre must write in advance to the Keeper of the Archives giving details of their research subject and listing the collections they will wish to consult. New readers should also provide a letter of introduction and some form of identification (such as a passport or driving licence).
Language: English
Finding aids: Printed catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Sir (William) Kenneth Hutchison, NCUACS catalogue no.80/1/99, 49 pp.  Copies available from NCUACS, University of Bath

 

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