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MS 212 - JOHN OSWALD NEWTON (1924- )
Physicist, DSc, FAA
Newton was born and educated in the United Kingdom, gaining his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1952. He is Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Nuclear Physics at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University. His main area of expertise is in nuclear structure physics and heavy-ion induced fusion and fission.
212/1 University notebooks
‘Maths course – Cambridge’
‘Maths course Pt I Cambridge’
‘Various lecture courses at Cambridge’
‘Organic Chemistry and General Chemistry Pt I Nat Sci Tripos 1941’
‘Various Pt I Nat Sci Tripos Physics lectures 1941-2’
‘Mineralogy Pt I Nat Sci Tripos 1941-2’
‘Electronics Course Cambridge 1942’
‘Various Pt II Physics lecture courses Cambridge 1946-7’
‘Pt II lectures 1946-7’
212/2 University notebooks (cont)
‘Pt II Physics 1946-7 Cambridge’
‘Various lecture courses at Cavendish 1947-8’
‘Early Experiments at Cavendish Lab 1948-’
Experiment notebook (Cambridge 1949- and Cavendish 1950-52) University lectures: Manchester
Lecture notes: ‘(1) Some essay questions (2) Lecture course by JN for ordinary degree students at Manchester (3) Course for graduate students by JN’
‘Graduate Lecture course given by JN’
‘Nuclear Physics given by JN 1959- at Manchester’ Notes and calculations
‘Angular distributions from HI (x & γ) reactions Berkeley’
Notes and calculations (Berkeley)
Calculations (Berkeley/Manchester)
212/3 Notes and calculations (cont)
Notebook of calculations (Manchester and ANU)
Experiment notebook (ANU) Miscellaneous files
Scientific Intelligence Officers’ Operational Data Book, Home Office 1964 and related documents
Overhead transparencies for a lecture
Correspondence and papers: Department of Nuclear Physics ANU 1976 Material relating to the memoir of Ernest Titterton
Memoir of Titterton and correspondence (mostly with publisher) 1992
Material on Titterton: notes, papers, CV, correspondence, obituaries
Press clippings, papers by Titterton, 1950s, 1980s
Correspondence 1990-1991 on writing the memoir of Titterton; notes
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