Scientific working papers, lectures, publications

Title

Scientific working papers, lectures, publications

Shelfmark

MS. Coulson 24

Summary

Folders B.4.1-B.4.5: Lectures delivered at Dundee University, 1938-1944.

Folder B.4.1: 'Theoretical calculations of molecular structure'.

Ms. of a series of 6 lectures.

Folder B.4.2: 'Hydrodynamics. Senior Honours'.

MS. notes.

Folder B.4.3: 'Dynamics' and 'Ramsay Dynamics'.

Extensive MS. notes and drafts.

Folder B.4.4: 'Interpolation. Numerical integration. Junior Honours'.

2 booklets of MS. notes and drafts, with plan of course and problems to be set, 1943.

Folder B.4.5: 'Statistics'.

4 numbered booklets of MS. notes and drafts, and loose notes on 'Best Straight Lines'.

Folder B.4.6 (1968-1970): 'Negative bond orders'.

MS. notes and drafts for lectures and papers on bond orders, with Coulson's note on inside cover of the folder of dates and places of the lectures.

Folder B.4.7 (1968-1969): 'X-ray levels and chemical bonding'.

MS. notes, offprints of published papers, with Coulson's note on inside cover of the folder of dates and places of the lectures.

Folder B.4.8 (1968-1969): 'Influence of the new maths on physics'.

Material prepared for Coulson's visit to Africa, 1968.

Notes, list of slides, correspondence, typescript of Coulson's lecture on the Periodic Table adapted for delivery on the tour.

Folder B.4.9 (n.d.): 'Mathematics of some radiation problems in biology'.

A 'Lecture on Bacteria for Mathematicians'.

MS. notes, typescript and MS. of lecture. n.d. but before 1944.

Folder B.4.10 (1930): 'Lecture on Gyroscopes'.

MS. of lecture given to 'Trinity Mathematical Society, 26 November 1940' (one of Coulson's first lectures).

Folder B.4.11 (n.d.): 'Electron distribution in large molecules'.

MS. notes and drafts for several lectures and papers on the subject.

Folder B.4.12 (1959): 'Electronic Structure of the Boundary Atoms of a Graphite Layer'.

Paper given by Coulson at Fourth Conference on Carbon, held in Oxford, 1959.

Annotated typescript, and page proof.

Folder B.4.13 (1962-1967): 'Interatomic Forces'.

MS. notes for several lectures and papers on the subject, with Coulson's note on inside cover of folder of dates and places of the lectures.

Transcript of Coulson's principal lecture on the subject, given at King's College, London, 1962.

Folder includes proof of an earlier paper by Coulson.

Folder B.4.14 (1950): 'Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure'.

Report by Coulson on Faraday Society Discussions held at Cambridge, September 1950.

Folder B.4.15 (1967): 'Non-Valence interactions'.

52 pp. MS. draft, and numerous sets of figures for slides, diagrams, etc., with MS. note by Coulson 'These are the Hungary lectures'.

The material was prepared for publication in a Hungarian journal, but is not listed in the R.S. Memoir.

Date

1930-1970

Language

English

Physical extent

15 folders