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- (Undated typescript covering the period 1959-1965.) (Creation)
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1 folder Typewritten paper
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Biographical history
(1905-1996) Physicist. Admitted Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1930 as a Fellow; Professorial Fellow, 1954; Master 1959-65. Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge, 1954. Knighted 1962. Died 1996.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Given by Nevill Mott to Christopher Brooke for safekeeping during his lifetime. Transferred to the Archive in 1997 after Mott's death.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Typescript of a diary relating to the period of Mott's mastership of the College.
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Open access - no restrictions.
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Related units of description
See also Magisterial records (MAS). See also: correspondence with Lord Blackett, Royal Society; correspondence with Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute; correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge; letters to JG Crowther, Sussex University Library; correspondence with CA Coulson, Bodleian Library, Oxford; correspondence with Sir Charles Frank, Bristol University Library; correspondence with F London, Duke University; correspondence with RE Peierls, Bodleian Library, Oxford; correspondence with EC Stoner, Leeds University.
Publication note
The material in the diary was the basis for part of Mott's autobiography, A Life in Science (1995).