Papers of Professor Cecil William Dannatt, [1910]-1960, comprising notebooks made when a student at the Royal School of Mines (Imperial College), [1910-1914], containing lectures and notes relating to geology, assaying, electrometallurgy, metallography, metallurgy, mineralogy, ore dressing, electrical engineering and applied electricity; correspondence, 1958-1960, notably relating to smelting oxidised copper ores, with Encyclopaedia Britannica concerning biographies; articles from 1947, including for the Cass Institute and Institute of Metals.
DANNATT, Professor Cecil William (1892-1961)
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- Dates of Creation1910-1960
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description2 boxes
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Administrative / Biographical History
Born, 1892; studied at the Royal School of Mines (Imperial College), 1910-1914; staff, from 1923, Reader in Metallurgy, 1937, Professor of Metallurgy, 1945-1957, Royal School of Mines; died, 1961.
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Acquisition Information
The papers were presented to the College by the daughter of Professor Dannatt, Miss J Dannatt, in 1980.
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Custodial History
Accumulated by Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine during the course of business.