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Group timeline: before 1960

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Physics at Leicester pre-1960 

1924/5 Physics and Chemistry Departments created with capital outlay of £30k.
A.C.Menzies appointed Lecturer. 

1925/6 10 `day students’, including 2 Physics Hons

1927/8 First Leicester higher degree awarded to C P Snow BSc, MSc (Physics)

1928/9 Public lecture by A S Eddington on ‘The Mystery of Time’

1930/1 DSIR grant of £200 over 2 years to allow Dr Menzies to recruit first RA, C O Pringle from Belfast. Royal Society grant of £45 to buy optical density meter. Used by Mensies and Pringle for Nature paper ‘Raman Spectra of solid Nitrogen Peroxide’

1932 Menzies to chair at Southampton, replaced by Dr L G H Huxley (from U C Nottingham)

1933 British Association meeting at Leicester

1934/5 U/G 24 (FT), 1 (PT)

1936/7 DSIR set up observation centre for atmospheric pollution (housed in Chemistry)
5 publications from Huxley, mainly on gas discharge experiments.

1937/8 Dr Rosenthal (Hamburg) appointed to honorary post in medical physics

1938/9 Free U/G places for refugees

1939/40 Huxley to Air Ministry, replaced by Dr Stewardson (in UK from post in China due to war)

1941/2 Winter Radio School for armed forces technical officers. Sub-department in Radio set up, with science and arts U/Gs from across UK.

1942/3 Physics one of few Leicester Departments to grow, with state bursaries for many of 47 U/G students

1944/5 First UGC grant to Leicester, for £12k. A E Jennings appointed Asst. Lecturer in Physics

1945/6 Jennings left, C Hayward and D M McColl appointed as Asst. Lecturers.
0.75 ton of radio and electrical equipment awarded by Wireless Personnel Committee

1946/7 Stewardson appointed to first Chair in Physics

1947/8 Appointments of A Hunter (L) and C G Wilson and J E Wilson (AL)

1949/50 E Matsuoka and Miss C Sinclair appointed as Asst. Lecturers. C G Wilson resigned. Research in nuclear physics and X-ray studies of rare earth metals.

1 MeV Van der Graaf accelerator and SXR Vacuum Spectrometer built.

1951 Royal Charter granted to Leicester. Physics U/G numbers restricted by lab Space in Fielding Johnson, 32 Hons, 114 GS

1953 W Spear appointed as Lecturer

1954 P Russell appointed as Lecturer

1957 University status granted. K Banyard to Asst.Lecturer

1957/8 Plans for new Physics Building approved

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