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Authorised form of name	Gowing; Margaret Mary (1921 - 1998)
Other forms of name	Margaret
Other forms of surname	Elliott
Dates	1921 - 1998
Nationality	British
Date of birth	26/04/1921
Date of death	07/11/1998
Research field	History of Science
Activity	Education: Portobello Road Elementary School; Christ's Hospital; London School of Economics (LSE). BSc (economics) Career: Worked for the Board of Trade (1941-1945); became a historian in the Cabinet Office, contributing to the civil economic and socail history of World War II; member of the Committee on Departmental Records (1952) which led to the Grigg Report (1954) and the Public Records Act (1958); Archivist/historian to the UK Atomic Energy Authority (1959), providing her with the opportunity to embark on what was to become her life-work, the history of atomic energy and its social, political and economic implications for peace of war; Reader in Contemporary History, University of Kent (1966); appointed first Professor of the History of Science at Oxford (1972); established, with Nicholas Kurti (FRS 1956) and with the support of the Royal Society, the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre, Oxford thenat Bath, now at the Science Museum), and was Honorary Director (1973-1986); on Advisory Council on Public Records (1974-1982); on BBC Archives Advisory Committee (1976-1979); on governing body, Imperial War Museum; Trustee, National Portrait Gallery; elected to Fellowship ofthe British Academy (1975) Honours: CBE 1981 Memberships: FBA
Membership category	Statute 12
Date of election	30/06/1988
Age at election	67
RSActivity	Lectures: Wilkins 1976
Relationships	Married (1944) Donald Gowing (died 1969); 2 sons
Source	Sources: Obituaries: Isis 90:2 (1999); Times (11 November 1998)
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/4922169
Code	NA5966

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1988/47	Gowing, Margaret Mary: certificate of election to the Royal Society	1988
PB/1/26	Miscellaneous correspondence re portraits and photographs of Blackett
PB/1/30	Requests for historical / biographical information.	1970-1972
PB/4/10/17	Correspondence with Margaret Gowing re her history of atomic energy and Blackett's papers, reproduced or referred to therein	1972

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