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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 KCLCA K/PP11
- Title
- SHEARING, Edwin Albert (b 1915)
- Date(s)
- Created 1937-1953
- Level of description
- Collection (fonds)
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 1 file
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Shearing, Edwin Albert, b 1915
- Administrative / Biographical history
Born 4 July 1915; BSc, Chemistry and Physics, King's College London, 1933-1935; PhD, Organic Chemistry, King's College London, 1935-1938; worked for ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries).
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented by Dr Shearing in 1983.
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Personal correspondence, 1937-1952, between Shearing and Samuel Smiles, Daniell Professor of Chemistry at King's College London, relating to the publication of Shearing's research, and Shearing's work and career; letters, 1938, from Arthur John Allmand, Daniell Professor of Chemistry at King's College London, requesting information on Shearing's career and the Samuel Smiles Prize Fund; 'Report of the Samuel Smiles Prize and Presentation Fund Committee', [1939]; dinner menu and photographs of a chemists' gathering at the Waldorf Hotel, London, 1937.
- System of arrangement
1 file
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College, London.
- Language/scripts of material
English
- Finding aids
Collection level description.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
King's College London College Archives
- Related units of description
King's College London Archives also holds papers relating to chemistry reunions and contacts with former chemistry students of King's College London (Ref: KDCH/SP1-4).
Description control
- Rules or conventions
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.
- Date(s) of descriptions
Feb 2000
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Subjects
- Chemical research
- Chemistry education
- Economics of education
- Educational finance
- Science education
Personal names
- Allmand, Arthur John, 1885-1951, Professor of Chemistry
- Shearing, Edwin Albert, b 1915, Chemist
- Smiles, Samuel, 1877-1953, Chemist
Corporate names
- King's College London College Archives
- Waldorf Hotel, London
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