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RefNoMS/965/1/2
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, to Mrs. [Kathleen Yardley] Lonsdale, The Royal Institution, 21 Albermarle Street, London, W. 1
Date2 July 1941
DescriptionResponding to her previous letter [MS/965/1] regarding Professor [William Thomas] Gordon's diamond. Recalls the diamond was returned to Sir Robert Robertson, commenting that his own work on it was completed between 1934 and 1935. Informs that his assistant and the student who was taking photographs at the time both confirm its return. Adds that his 'laboratory, with all its content, has been completely destroyed by a parachute mine'.
Extent1p
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8102Andrade; Edward Neville da Costa (1887 - 1971); physicist1887 - 1971
NA7993Lonsdale; Dame; Kathleen Yardley (1903 - 1971); crystallographer and pacifist1903 - 1971
NA7834Robertson; Sir; Robert (1869 - 1949)1869 - 1949
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