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Papers of JOHN HAROLD CROSSLEY THOMPSON (1909 - 1975)
Catalogue reference: CSAC 34.11.75
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This record is about the Papers of JOHN HAROLD CROSSLEY THOMPSON (1909 - 1975) dating from 1927 - 1935.
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- CSAC 34.11.75
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Title (The name of the record)
- Papers of JOHN HAROLD CROSSLEY THOMPSON (1909 - 1975)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1927 - 1935
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Description (What the record is about)
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The collection consists of careful notes of lectures attended by JHCT as an undergraduate and graduate at Oxford. Items 1 - 8 are notebooks and Items 9 - 28 are loose sets of notes which were kept by JHCT in 3 indexed boxfiles. All items are manuscript and in JHCT's hand with the exception of Items 7 - 8, with are 2 notebooks of lectures at Cambridge. Their provenance is not known; there is an indistinct signature on the cover.
Item 29 is a file containing a small amount of correspondence; see note on pages 3-4 of this handlist.
Titles in inverted commas are those which appear on the manuscripts.
Item 30 is a copy of the Wadham College Gazette containing tributes to J.H.C. Thompson.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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Listed by Jeannine Alton
Harriot Weiskittel
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Oxford University: Wadham College Library
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <persname>Thompson, John Harold Crossley, 1909-1975, mathematician</persname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 30 files
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Deposited in 1976
The papers were received from Mrs. K. Thompson
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Summary of career
1909 b. Yorkshire
1927 New College, Oxford
1934 Research Fellow, Merton College
1936 - 75 Mathematics Tutor and Fellow, Wadham College
1964 Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Oxford
(See Item 30 for additional biographical information)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/7ae15906-bdaa-4d82-b34c-00d11191ef17/
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