Early records of the Physics Department of the University of Leeds

Scope and Content

Comprises documents relating to the Physics Department of the University of Leeds, and to Arthur William Rcker, William Stroud, and Sir William Henry Bragg

Administrative / Biographical History

The Department of Mathematics and Experimental Physics was one of the original constituent departments of the Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds, founded in 1874. Physics became a department in its own right during the session 1882-83. The Yorkshire College became the University of Leeds in 1904.

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Acquisition Information

Photocopies made in 1971 from documents and microfilms in the Registry of the University of Leeds

Note

In English