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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 KCLCA K/PP20
- Title
- SIMONS, Lewis (1888-1972)
- Date(s)
- Created [1907-1910]
- Level of description
- Collection (fonds)
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 4 volumes
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Simons, Lewis, 1888-1972, Lecturer in Physics
- Administrative / Biographical history
Born 14 March 1888, Bethnal Green, London; studied Physics with Mathematics, King's College London, 1907-1910; BSc (First class honours) 1910; awarded Jelf medal, 1910; elected an Associate of King's College, 1910; Student Demonstrator, King's College London, 1910-1911; Demonstrator, Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1911-1914; Senior Lecturer, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1914-1917; Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1917-1922; DSc, University of London, 1921, for 'contributions to the study of energy transformations when x-radiations are absorbed by or emitted from a substance'; Reader in Physics, Birkbeck College, London, 1922-1948; Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 1920; died 10 January 1972.
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented by Dr Timothy Simons, Lewis Simons' grandson, in 1986.
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Manuscript notes from lectures, comprising, 'Second year calculus'; 'Pure maths'; 'Honours physics BSc lectures, special first year course delivered by Professor Harold Albert Wilson', 1908; 'Mathematics', 1909; 'Theoretical physics, second year honours BSc'.
- System of arrangement
4 volumes, each containing subjects as outlined above.
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
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
- Mathematics education
Personal names
- Simons, Lewis, 1888-1972, Lecturer in Physics
- Wilson, Harold Albert, 1874-1964, Physicist
Corporate names
- King's College London College Archives
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