Papers of Professor N.K.Adam

Working papers and correspondence, 1925-70. Laboratory and prepartions notebooks, 1932-6, and selected working papers, 1930-63; correspondence, c.1925-70; offprints of articles by Adam and volumes from the Adam collection, including copies of The physics and chemistry of surfaces (1930).

Neil Kensington Adam (d. 1973), FRS, FRIC, was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, 1915-23; Royal Society Sorby Research Fellow at Sheffield University, 1921-9, and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southampton, 1937-57.

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