Description compiled by Robert Steiner, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. The biographical history was compiled with reference to the entry on Robert Ditchburn in
Robert William Ditchburn (1903-1987), physicist, was born on 14 January 1903, and educated at Bootle Secondary School, Liverpool University and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Dublin University, 1929-1946. He became Professor of Physics at Reading University in 1946, and Emeritus Professor in 1968. He was Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1928-1946. He died on 8 April 1987.
An experimental notebook, 195 pages followed by a number of blank pages. There is an index at start of the volume and several inserted tables.
Presented by Robert Ditchburn, 1986.
Open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
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