Papers of Professor Richard Whiddington, C.B.E., F.R.S. (1885 - 1970)

Professor Whiddington discarded most of his papers on his move to Norfolk following his retirement from the University of Leeds in 1951. The material received from his widow Mrs. Katherine Whiddington consists largely of manuscript notes for lectures - those which Professor Whiddington delivered at Leeds, as well as those he attended as an undergraduate at Cambridge (see Items 3 - 6 for notes on lectures by G.F.C. Searle and C.T.R. Wilson). The only correspondence which remains is that pertaining to Science at War and to Whiddington's memoir of J. W. Ryde for the Royal Society.

Listed by: Harriot Weiskittel

<span class="wrapper"><p>A complete set of Professor Whiddington's offprints was deposited in the Library of the Royal Society, as was the set of J.W. Ryde's offprints which was found in the collection (Item 44). Two theses were returned - one to the University of Durham and one to Queen's University, Belfast.</p> <p>I. Biographical 1 - 2</p> <p>II. Cambridge notebooks 3 - 10</p> <p>III. Laboratory notebooks 11 - 13</p> <p>IV. Lectures and experiments 14 - 32</p> <p>V. War work 33 - 34</p> <p>VI. Publications 35 - 45</p> <p>VII. Leeds University 46 - 48</p> <p>VIII. Index to principal correspondents</p></span>

Deposited in 1974

Summary of the career of Professor Whiddington

1885 Born in London

1905 Entered St. John's College, Cambridge

1911 D.Sc. London

1911 - 19 Fellow of St. John's College

1914 - 19 Radio Telegraphy and Telephony Research and Design, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough

1919 Married Katherine Reoch Grant

1919 - 51 Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Leeds

1925 - 48 Hon. Editor, Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Proceedings

1926 Fellow of the Royal Society

1940 - 42 Department of Scientific Research, Admiralty

1942 - 45 Deputy Director Scientific Research, Ministry of Supply

1946 C.B.E.

1949 - 51 Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds

1952 - 54 President, the Physical Society

1959 - 62 Scientific Advisor to Central Treaty Organisation