| Authorised form of name | Burch; Cecil Reginald (1901 - 1983) |
| Dates | 1901 - 1983 |
| Date of birth | 12/05/1901 |
| Date of death | 19/07/1983 |
| Research field | Physics |
| Activity | Education:
Oundle School
Career:
Warren Research Fellow (1948 - 1966)
Honours:
CBE 1958
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1944 |
| Age at election | 42 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1954 |
| General context | The CR Burch prize is awarded by the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University for outstanding work by a young scientist in the field of vacuum science, surface science and thin films. |
| Sources | AssocMaterial:
CSAC 110/1/86. Papers deposited in Bristol University Library
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1984 vol 30 pp 1-42, plate, by T E Allibone |
| Royal Society code | NA6596 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| MM/18/146 | Letter from Frits Zernike to W Watsons and Sons | 1934 |
| RR/69/307 | Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'The control of amplitude in phase-contrast microscopy' by Edward Wilfred Taylor | January 1947 |
| RR/69/306 | Letter from Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'The control of amplitude in phase-contrast microscopy' by Edward Wilfred Taylor | 21 November 1946 |
| RR/69/310 | Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Further interferometric studies with mica. New multiple-beam fringes and their application' by Samuel Tolansky | 1945 |
| RR/71/111 | Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Microscopy by reconstructed wave-fronts' by Dennis Gabor | [1948] |
| EC/1944/04 | Burch, Cecil Reginald: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/68/508 | Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on two papers 'The topography of crystal faces - I. The topography of a (100) face of a left-handed quartz crystal' and 'The topography of crystal faces - II. The topography of cleavage faces of mica and selenite' by Samuel Tolansky | [1944] |
| PB/1/33/2 | Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | 1956 |
| IM/000661 | Burch, Cecil Reginald | nd |