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RefNoFS/7/4/1/1
Previous numbersFS/14/2/35
LevelFile
Title'Future of Physics, Oxford University'
Date1945
DescriptionCorrespondence and reports relating to the possible reorganisation of the teaching of Physics at Oxford University

In 1945, two possible plans were discussed:

1) Replace the two independent laboratories (the Clarendon and the Electrical Laboratory) with one School of Physics and make the Wykeham Professorship a Chair of Theoretical Physics.

2) Retain two laboratories under two experimental professors and provide for theoretical physics by appointing a theoretical physicist to the Sedleian Chair of Natural Philosophy.

Plan 1) was carried out. The Wykeham chair became a Professorship of Theoretical Physics, held by Prof Maurice Pryce from 1946 to 1955
Extent1 file
FormatTypescript documents
AccessStatusOpen
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