King's College London Archives Services - Summary Guide

RANDALL, Sir John Turton (1905-1984)

3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA
3.1.1 Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP59
3.1.2 Title: RANDALL, Sir John Turton (1905-1984)
3.1.3 Date(s): Created [1943-1959]
3.1.4 Level of description: Collection (fonds)
3.1.5 Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk or size): 1 box or 0.01m3

3.2 CONTEXT AREA
3.2.1 Name of creator(s): Randall | Sir | John Turton | 1905-1984 | knight | physicist
3.2.2 Administrative/Biographical history: Born in Lancashire, 23 March 1905; educated at grammar school in Ashton-in-Makerfield and at the University of Manchester; First class honours degree in physics, 1925; MSc, 1926; employed on research by the General Electric Company, 1926-1937; awarded Royal Society fellowship to study electron processes in luminescent solids in the Physics Department at Birmingham University, 1937-1943; associated with Dr Henry Albert Howard Boot and Professor James Sayers at Birmingham University in the invention of the cavity magnetron, an essential element of radar; DSc, 1938; appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, 1944; Wheatstone Chair of Physics at King's College London, 1946; set up a group to study the structure and growth of the connective tissue protein collagen, 1951; Edinburgh University, 1970; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1946; knighted in 1962; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1972; died 16 June 1984 at Edinburgh.

Publications: The Diffraction of X-Rays and Electrons by Amorphous Solids, Liquids, and Gases (Chapman & Hall, London, 1934); editor of Progress in biophysics and biophysical chemistry (molecular biology) with J A V Butler, (Butterworth-Springer, London, 1950); editor of Nature and Structure of Collagen. Papers presented for a discussion convened by the Colloid and Biophysics Committee of the Faraday Society at King's College, London, on 26 and 27 March, 1953 (Butterworths Scientific Publications, London, 1953).

3.2.3 Archival history:
3.2.4 Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Transferred from Christopher Randall in November 1999.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA
3.3.1 Scope and content: Medals and other awards, including the insignia of a Knight Bachelor, particularly for scientific achievement and his cavity magnetron work, with accompanying documentation, [1943-1959].
3.3.2 Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
3.3.3 Accruals:
3.3.4 System of arrangement: 1 box

3.4 CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA
3.4.1 Conditions governing access: Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
3.4.2 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.
3.4.3 Language/scripts of material: English
3.4.4 Physical characteristics and technical requirements:
3.4.5 Finding aids: Handlist available in hard copy in the reading room of the College Archives.

3.5 ALLIED MATERIALS AREA
3.5.1 Existence and location of originals:
3.5.2 Existence and location of copies:
3.5.3 Related units of description: Papers relating to Biophysics Research Unit, 1946-1949, at the Medical Research Council (Ref: Survey of sources newsletter no 8); papers relating to the development of the cavity magnetron, 1939-1945, at the Institution of Electrical Engineers Archives Department (Ref: CSAC 68/6/79); papers, and correspondence with Professor Archibald Vivian Hill, 1960-1964, at the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University (Ref: Guide 1992 RNDL; Ref: AVHL).
3.5.4 Publication note:

3.6 NOTE AREA
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3.7 DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA
3.7.1 Archivist's note:
3.7.2 Rules or conventions:
3.7.3 Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2000

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