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Finding Aid for the D.E. Lea Papers and Notebooks, 1931-1943


MS-0840

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, September 28, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: D.E. Lea Papers and Notebooks

Date/Date Range :   1931-1943

Extent: 2.0 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection houses papers and notebooks relating to the career of radiation researcher Douglas E. Lea.

Call number: MS-0840

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
This collection is property of the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], D.E. Lea Papers and Notebooks, MS-0840. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of two boxes divided into two series:

  1. Series I: Papers
  2. Series II: Experiment Notebooks

Biography / History

Douglas E. Lea (M.A., Ph.D.) was born in 1910 in Great Britain. During his career, he worked as a physicist at England's Strangeways Laboratory and as a reader in the Department of Radiobiology in the Department of Radiotheraputics at Cambridge University. The majority of his work dealt with the effects of radiation on cells. Lea died in an accident in Cambridge, England, on June 16, 1947.


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection houses papers and notebooks relating to the career of radiation researcher Douglas E. Lea.

Subject Terms

  • Lea, Douglas E., 1910-1947.
  • Radiobiology.
Contents List
   

Series I: Papers, 1931-1940
Box   1     Folder   1    
Calculations for X-Ray Spectrometer (September 1931); Radiation on Viruses, Phazes, Genes (1940), 1931-1940
Box   1     Folder   2    
List of published work, submitted by D. E. Lea, for the Science Department and various reprints
Box   1     Folder   3    
Various reprints and articles
Box   1     Folder   4    
Various reprints and articles
Box   1     Folder   5    
Fellowship Thesis, pt. II, 1933. The Penetrating Radiations produced by the Bombardment Of Light Elements By Alpha Particles, 1933
Box   1     Folder   6    
Annual Laboratory Reports, 1931-1932
Box   1     Folder   7    
Annual Laboratory Reports, 1932-1933
Box   1     Folder   8    
Annual Laboratory Reports, 1937-1938
Box   1     Folder   9    
Supporting Diagrams for Biological Effects Book
Box   1     Folder   10    
Miscellaneous physical notes for Biological Effects Book
Box   1     Folder   11    
Miscellaneous theory and calculations concerning Biological Effects Book
Box   1     Folder   12    
Correspondence concerning tables in Biological Effects Book
Box   1     Folder   13    
Supporting paper for Biological Effects Book
Box   1     Folder   14    
Physics notes on Biological Effects Book, I
Box   1     Folder   15    
Physics notes on Biological Effects Book, II
Box   1     Folder   16    
Calculation Checks for Biological Effects Book
Box   1     Folder   17    
Collected tables for Biological Effects Book
Box   1     Folder   18    
Printer's proofs for Biological Effects Book
   

Series II: Experiment Notebooks, 1939 May-1943 July
Box   2     Folder   1    
Bacteriology B3 Folder, Strangeways Laboratory, Red Cross, Cambridge, 1939 May
Box   2     Folder   2    
V, Trinity College and Strangeways Laboratory, Cambridge, 1935 April-1936 June
Box   2     Folder   3    
VI (see index) Strangeways Laboratory, Cambridge, 1936 June-1937 April
Box   2     Folder   4    
VIII (see index) Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, 1937 November-1938 April
Box   2     Folder   5    
IX (see index) Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, 1938 April-1939 February
Box   2     Folder   6    
X (see index) Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, 1939 February- 1939 November
Box   2     Folder   7    
XI (see index) Strangeways Laboratory, Cambridge, 1939 November-1940 June
Box   2     Folder   8    
XIII (see index) Strangeways Research Laboratory, Red Cross, Cambridge, 1941 February-1941 November
Box   2     Folder   9    
XV (see index) Strangeways Research Laboratory, Red Cross, Cambridge, 1942 October-1943 July