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Authorised form of nameBurch; Cecil Reginald (1901 - 1983)
Dates1901 - 1983
Date of birth12/05/1901
Date of death19/07/1983
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
Oundle School
Career:
Warren Research Fellow (1948 - 1966)
Honours:
CBE 1958
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1944
Age at election42
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1954
General contextThe 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.
SourcesAssocMaterial:
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 codeNA6596
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
MM/18/146Letter from Frits Zernike to W Watsons and Sons1934
RR/69/306Letter from Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'The control of amplitude in phase-contrast microscopy' by Edward Wilfred Taylor21 November 1946
RR/69/307Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'The control of amplitude in phase-contrast microscopy' by Edward Wilfred TaylorJanuary 1947
RR/69/310Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Further interferometric studies with mica. New multiple-beam fringes and their application' by Samuel Tolansky1945
RR/71/111Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Microscopy by reconstructed wave-fronts' by Dennis Gabor[1948]
EC/1944/04Burch, Cecil Reginald: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PB/1/33/2Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society1956
IM/000661Burch, Cecil Reginaldnd
RR/68/508Referee'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]
RR/75/106Copy of Referees' comments on a paper 'Perturbation characteristics and their application to electron optics' by P A Sturrock[1951]
RR/79/128Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'The pressure of radiation in a refracting medium' by Reginald Victor Jones and J C S Richards14 July 1953
RR/79/259Letter from Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Solutions of two optical problems' by A Fletcher, T Murphy and Andrew Young, to David Brunt29 October 1953
RR/79/260Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Solutions of two optical problems' by A Fletcher, T Murphy and Andrew Young30 October 1953
RR/79/261Letter from Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Solutions of two optical problems' by A Fletcher, T Murphy and Andrew Young, to David Brunt25 November 1953
RR/73/156Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Light distribution near focus in an error free diffraction image' by E Wolf12 July 1950
RR/73/174Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'The aberrations of magnetic electron lenses due to asymmetries' by P A Sturrock24 July 1950
RR/74/3Referee's report by Cecil Reginald, on a paper 'The application of phase-contrast to the ultra-violet microscope' by Edward Wilfred Taylor10 October 1950
RR/75/59Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'The concept of partial coherence in optics' by H H Hopkins6 March 1951
RR/75/104Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Perturbation characteristics and their application to electron optics' by P A Sturrock18 April 1951
RR/75/130Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'The imaging properties of electron beams in arbitrary static electromagnetic fields' by P A Sturrock14 May 1951
RR/75/161Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Phase contrast and interference microscopy' by R C Faust2 July 1951
RR/75/319Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'On the foundation of the scalar diffraction theory of optical imaging' by O Theimer, G D Wassermann and E Wolf7 December 1951
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