HUME-ROTHERY, William

HUME_ROTHERY_WILLIAM

CONTEMPORARYSCIENTIFIC ARCHIVES CENTRE Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of WILLIAM HUME-ROTHERY OBE FRS (1899-1968) Compiled by Jeannine Alton and Harriot Weiskittel Deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford CSAC 1/73 All rights reserved W. Hume—Rothery csac 1/73 Description of the collection. 1. The papers cover the years 1924 — 1968. There is a considerable number of notebooks,working papers and lectures for the later part of Hume-Rothery's career. Most of the material relating to his early work was destroyed by Hume-Rothery because of pressure of space;the only manuscript references now extant are in the letters to Mr. G.Hedley (Item 153). Some official correspondence relating to the period is in the Department of Metallurgy,Oxford. Hume~Rothery filed letters from his principal scientific correspondents individually; others are scattered through the collection with the working papers to which they refer. Hume~Rothery's total deafness required his colleagues to make all their remarks to him in writing. Some of these conversation notes have been separately preserved and identified where possible (Items 21 — 23); others appear as random jottings in the notebooks and correspondence passin. Unless otherwise stated,all notebooks and lectures are manuscript. Some biographical material is retained by Mrs. E.Hume-Rothery (widow), Cherry Orchard,Abberbury Road,Oxford,and Mrs. A.D.Moss (daughter),30,Crediton Hill, London N.W.6. publications are held in the Department of Metallurgy,Oxford,for eventual deposit. in the University Archives. Files (11) of typewritten correspondence chiefly concerning Summary of the career of Professor Hume—Rothery. 1912 — 16 Educated at Cheltenham College (Scholar). 1916 1917 1918 1920 1922 Entered Royal Military Academy,Woolwich. Suffered attack of cerebrospinal meningitis resulting in total loss of hearing; invalided out of army. Entered Magdalen College,Oxford. Demy of Magdalen College. - ~-Honour School of Natural Science (C1.1.) - 1922 — 25 Worked on intermetallic compounds,Royal School of Mines. 1925 Ph.D. London. 1925 — 29 Senior Demy,Magdalen College,Oxford. 1929 — 32 Armourers & Braziers Company Research Fellowship in Metallurgy. 1931 Married Elizabeth Alice Fea. 1932 — 42,Warren Research Fellowship of the Royal Society. 1943 = 55 1935 1937 D.Sc.Oxon. _ Fellow of the Royal Society. 1938 — 43 Fellow by Special Election,Magdalen College,Oxford. 1938 1951 1955 Lecturer in Metallurgical Chemistry,Oxford. O.B.E. George Kelley Reader in Metallurgy, Oxford. 1958 ~ 66 Elected to the Isaac Wolfson Chair of Metallurgy,and to a Professorial. Fellowship,St.Edmund Hall,Oxford. W. Hume—Rothery csac 1/73 Summary of career (cont. ) 26 1960 Opening of Department of Metallurgy, Oxford. 1960 — 64 Service on Basic Properties of Metals Committee,Ministry of Aviation. 1965 = 68 Consultant,A.E.R.E. Harwell. Contents of the ilandlist. I. Biographical and printed work II. Laboratory Notebooks III. Working papers IV. V. VI. Lectures Lecture Notebooks Publications VII. Correspondence Items 1-2 3 = 23 24 — 44 45 ~ 96 97 = 101 102 ~ 126 - 127 = 150 Page 2 2 3 4 7 7 8 VIII. Index of Principal Correspondents . 10 Handlist I. Biographical and printed work 1. 1A 2. Memoir, by G.V.Raynor. (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society,Vol.15,November 1969) —_ ¢ Biographical note and list of publications,supplied by Mrs. E. Hume—Rothery « 'The Freezing Points,Melting Points,and Solid Solubility Limits of the Alloys of Silver and Copper with the Elements of the RB Sub—Groups', by WeHume-Rothery,G.W.Mabbott and K.M.Channel Evans. (Phil.Trans. Roy.Soc., series A,233,1 — 97.) See also Item 103. II. Laboratory Notebooks 36 4. be 6. tApparatus Book't,with Hume~Rothery's name and address,The Old Chemistry Department,The University Museum,Oxford. Notes made on cost and source of apparatus bought 1926 onwards. Notebook,with name and address. Notes on articles read. Notebook, 'Work on Lattice spacings of Alkalis and Alkaline Earths. June, July,August 1944'. Includes conversation notes. Notebook,labelled in another hand ‘Notes on other people's books etc. on Iron and Steel'. 1947 n.d. 1944 1949 We Hume—Rothery csac 1/73 Te 8. 9. Notebook,with name and address,'Notes on odd pieces of work’. Notebook. April 1950 ~ May 1962. Notebook, ti. H-R,MeO.5. Work',and 'Mg Alloy EYeering Point Caloulations! 10. WNotebook,with name and address. (Index at back of book by W.L. Hodge, TeCele)e 11. Notebook, 12. Notebook,*Calcns. of Fe diagrams’, 13. Notebook,with name,address and index. Labelled in another hand ‘Mainly notes on papers’. ' 14. 15. Notebook,labelled in another hand "Thinking aloud’, Notebook with loose pages inserted,'Ferrous Alloys’ and *Calculations'. Feb.1960 ~ August 1963. 16. Notebook,'Theory of Alloys’. 17. Notebook,'Notes on what we think needs adding to the Iron book’. 1948 — 54 1950 = 62 1951 — 66 1954. 1955 1955 n.d. 1958 ~ 60 1960 ~ 63 1960 1963 18. 19. Notebook,with name,address and iteraeel tee in another hand "Notes on other papers’. 1960 — 66 Notebook with related correspondence and offprints,labelled in another hand 'Thinking and calculating’. 1966 — 68 20. Notebook,'Miscellaneous Freezing Point Research’. 21. Diary for 1966 containing notes of conversations, 22. Notebook of conversation notes, 23. File,various converaations,mostly unidentified. III. Working papers 24. Article 'Rule for Temperature Dependence of Solubility of Metals in Iror,by I.I.Kornilov,1950, annotated by Hume-Rothery. 256 "Thermodynamics and Metallic Solid Solutions',pages numbered T.1 ~ 326 26. Miscellaneous working papers,earliest dated 17 August 1955. 27. 28. Miscellaneous working papers,dated Oct. — Nov. 1961, ‘Corrections to Curves',dated 2.2.61. n.d. 1966 ned. n.d. 1950 n.d. 1955 1961 1961 W. Hume—Rothery csac 1/73 Correspondence with Dr. Askill, and calculation re diffusion date in Iron. 'Recalc.' of Fe diagram. ‘Models of Wave Mechanics and Boundary Conditions’. Paper on 'The Binding Energies of Metals and Alloys,’ by N.F. Mott, with Ms annotations by Hume—Rothery and Ms comments by Dr. 5S. Altmann. File labelled *Molybdenum Alloy Theory I'. File with note on cover, 'Misc. notes on Molybdenum Alloy’. Work on Compound Molecules in Mg-Sn System, 21 December 1965 — 4 March 1968.6 Work on the Engel~Brewer theory of metallic structures. Correspondence with Professor Leo Brewer,. Professor Bryan Coles, - Professor G.E. Bacon, Professor Carl Koch, Dr. Borge Lum, Dr. Richard Waterstrat. Notes, calculations, and drafts. Ms. and proofs with corrections of article 'The Engel~Brewer theories 229. of metals and alloys,' Progress Materials Science, 13, Amotated papers and articles on Engel—Brewer theories. -Correspondence and Ms articles on Engel~Brewer theories for Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physics. Nee nde 1963 = 64 1965 1965 — 68 1966 — 68 1967 1964 1966 — 68 Ms. translation (perhaps by Hume—Rothery) of article by Haffe nede ‘and Wagner, ‘Thermodynamic Analysis of Liquidus Curves of Inter— metallic Compounds.? 29 6 306 31. 326 33. 34. 35. 36. 37 38. 39-6 40. Ai. 42. 43. 44. Notebook, labelled 'A Note on the Constitution of Manganese— Nickel Alloys,’ by D.N. Tyler, C.G. Smith, and W. Hume-Rothery. Note on Fe-N Close~packed hexagonal phase with Ms comments by Professor J.W. Christian (Perhaps draft for article 'Close- packed hexagonal alloys of iron and nitrogen,’ Phil. Mag. (8), Zs 19556). ‘Notes for Chapter on Aluminium’, tA Note on the Freezing Points of Tin-rich Magnesium Alloys,’ by W. Hume-Rothery and L. Stump. Typescript. IV. Lectures 456 A6. British Association lecture on Solid Solutions in Iron, delivered at Sheffield. Typescript with notes, 16 pages. Lecture on Gold Alloys. Typescripts with notes, 18 pages. n.de 21962 ned. ned. n.d. n.d. & WVe Hume—Rothery CSAC 1/73 47. 48. 'New Lecture on Gold Alloys!, 'Special Lecture on Copper, Silver & Gold’, 49. Special Lecture on Theory of Cu Ag Au Solid Solutions’, 50. 51. 52. Notebook "Special Lecture for Institute of Metals on Alloys of Iron - The Interstitial Elements! (with explanatory letter from Dr. R.C. Hurst). Lecture cn the Constitution of Some Alloys of Iron, with typescript. 'Liquidus and Solidus Curves in General and Fe Alloys in Particular’, 536 "Special Lecture on Interstitial Elements in Iron Alloys',. "ist Lecture on Intermetallic Chemistry of Iron,' Royal School of Minese tond Lecture on Intermetallic Choma ery, of Iron,' Royal School of Mines. "3rd Lecture on Iron Alloys: Interstitial Alloys" Royal School of Minese tInstitute of Metals lecture on Theory of Copper Alloys. Second draft. ist Part: Facts and Empirical Theory’. tInstitute of Metals lecture on the Theory of the Alloys of Copper’, 'Cu Alloys Lectures. 2nd lecture,' pages numbered 1 — 22. 54. 556 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. Gi. 62, Nee NeGe neGe 1958 n.d. n.d. nde nede Nee n.d. n.d. ned. Ned. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 1964 1963 n.d. n.d. 1961 'Final version of lecture on Cu Alloys, pages numbered 1 -8 plus diagram , | NeGe "Structure of Metals II. Lecture on Copper Alloys’, "Structure of Metals and Alloys II. Special Lecture on Graphite in Cast Iron’, 63. 'Further lecture on Ferromagnetism and Transition Metals’. 64. "Special lecture on Ni As Structure’. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. Intermetallic Compounds. Introductory address at Institute of Metals Discussion 15 December 1964. Typescript with notes. ‘Preliminary notes for lecture on tempering’. ‘Special lecture on Packing of Spheres’, ‘Additional Specific Heat Notes for lectures’, Lecture for National Physical Laboratory, ist draft and related correspondence, January-February, 1961. W. Hume—Rothery CSAC 1/73 710. 'The Metallic Atoms! (typescript with corrections), pages numbered 1 ~ 19 71. ‘Lecture on Zones and Phase Equilibria’ , 126 'Hlectron Theory lecture on Mg and a cep. hexagonal structure’, n.d. T3s "Special Single Lecture on Intermediate Phases in Alloys’, 74.. ‘Lecture on Electron Theory of Alkali Metals’, 156 ‘Lecture on Theory of Transition Metals’ (typescript with notes) pages numberéd 1 - 9. node ned. nede 716s "Lecture on the Problem of the Transition Metals' (typescript n.d. ' with notes) pages numbered 1 — 31. TT. 'Two lectures on Electron Theory of Transition Metals. Preliminary Notes.*. 1O-< "Special lecture on Theory of Transition Metals‘, 196 80. Ole 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 'A Note on the Writing of Scientific Papers and Theses' Notes, drafts, Mss and typescript. May 1957. Hatfield Memorial Lecture I. Sheffield, 19 May 1965. Typescript with notes. "Sheffield Lecture! Ms and typescript. 'Sheffield 2nd lecture’. Notebook 'Sheffield,' inside ‘Sheffield Lecture on Titanium’. ‘Sheffield Lecture on Eutectic'. ‘Explanation of Eutectic Distribution Curve’, "Sheffield Lecture on Theory of Copper Alloys,' April 1959 ‘Notes on Tetrahedral Compounds’, tLecture Note Summary of Last Section of Geneva Lecture’, Two lectures for Dounreay on Transition Metals, ‘Two lectures for Dovnreay on Iron Alloys (typescript with notes) pages numbered 1 — 27 (ist lecture), 28 — 70 (2nd lecture), "ist Dounreay Lecture: The Ideas of Wave Mechanics’, tond Dounreay Lecture Free Electron Theory' 93. t3rd Dounreay Lecture: Brillouin Zones’, 94. "Ath Dounreay Lecture: Alloy Structures: Empirical', nde n.d. 1957 1965 Nede n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 199? n.d. nee n.d. ned. 1967 1967 1967 1967 W. Hume—Rothery CSAC 1/73 25. 96. Ve 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. ‘5th Dounreay Lecture: Electron Theories of Metals and Alloys' and related Correspondence, 1966 — 67.6 "Lecture on Experimental Methods for Determining the Consti-— tution of Alloys at High Temperatures. (typescripts with Notes). Lecture Notebooks Notebook, labelled 'Structure of Alloys I', Notebook, labelled ‘Structure of Alloys II,' with name and address e Notebook, labelled 'Lectures on Atomic Theory, 1961' Notebook, labelled ‘Zones Lectures, 1962. W.Hume~Rothery', ‘Lectures on Ferrous Metallography and other Iron—Alloy Lectures', Vi. Publications 102. Thesis submitted for Part II, Honour School of Natural Science, Oxford, 1922.6 103. 'The Freezing Points. . .@Sub-Groups' annotated copy. 104.— 109. ‘Atomic Theory for Students of Metallurgy,' Institute of Metals Monograph and Report Series, No. 3. Correspondence and notes for revisions. (see index on file cover). 110. 'Elements of Structural Metallurgy,! Institute of Metals Mono- graph and Report Series, No. 26, 1961. Related correspondence, 111. 112. 'Electrons, atoms, metals and alloys, 1963. relating to Dover edition and Japanese translation. Correspondence "Metallurgical Equilibrium Diagrams,' with J.W. Christian and W.B. Pearson, 1952. Correspondence relating to new edition. 113. 'The Constitution of Alloys of Gold and Mercury,' with C. Rolfe Journal of Less—Common Metals, 1967. Related correspondence. 114. 'The Constitution of Niobium-Cobalt Alloys,' Journal of Less< Common Metals, 12, 366, with J.K. Pargeter. corrections, Ms. addition, related correspondence. Typescript with 115. “Note on the Close~packed hexagonal phases in the later transi- tion series,' Acta. Met., 14, 560, 1966. Draft. 1961 1962 1964 1922 1934 1958 1960 - 68 1960 — 68 1965 — 66 1967 1966 1966 116. Miscellaneous correspondence regarding various articles and reviews. 1967 — 68 w We Hume-Rothery CSAC 1/73 117. ‘Part II.' World War. Part of Ms. lodged with W.W. Fea during Second ned. 8 ¢ 118. 119. 120. 121. T22s 123. 'The form of liquidus and solidus curves in binary alloys,' Scripta Met., 2, 271. JeW. Christian. Draft with related correspondence with 1968 'The Structure of Metals and Alloys! Institute of Metals Mono~ graph and Report Series. edition (revised),1954, and Fourth edition (revised), 1962 (with GV. Reapaor)s Fifth edition (revised),1969 (with R.E. Smallman and C.W. Haworth). 1936. Second edition, 1944; Third Drafts and working notes. ‘Structure of Metals and Alloys,' conversation notes and related correspondence. ‘Structure of Metals and Alloys,' related correspondence. ‘Structure of Metals and Alloys,' correspondence relating to translatione 1966 — 68 1940 — 1966 1955 ~ 1960 'The Structure of Alloys of Iron: an Elementary Introduction,!* Commonwealth and International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering and Liberal Studies, 1965%, Working papers and Mss. 1965 124. 'The Structure of Alloys of Iron,' related correspondence. 1958 = 70 125. 'The Structure of Alloys of Iron,' annotated Copy e 126. ‘The Structure of Metals and Alloys, annotated copy. VII. Correspondence 127. 128. Correspondence, conversation notes and annotated offprints relating to consultancy at AERE, Harwell, Correspondence etc. relating to Membership of Basic Properties of Metals Committee, Ministry of Aviation. 129. with J.A. Buckley. 130. with Dr. Jesse 0. Betterton. 131. with Professor Bryan Coles, 132. with Professor Charles A. Coulson, 132a. Professor Charles Coulsonfs file of correspondence with Hume—Rothery. 133. with Professor Charles A. Coulson, 133a. Professor Charles Coulson's file of correspondence with Hume--Rothery. 134. with Dr. Larry Kaufman, 1965 — 68 1960 ~ 64 1967 1960 — 63 1962 — 66 1954 — 68 1955 — 63 1945 - 54 1945 =— 54 1966 W. Hume—Rothery csac 1/73 135-6 1366 137.6 138. 139. 140. Lil. 2. L360 Lito 156 1,66 1k7o 1)8—= 150. 151. 1520 with Professor D oR. Hartree. with Professor D.R. Hartree. with Volker Heine. with Professor H. Jonese with WoM. Lomere with Ashok Sinha. Miscelianeous Scientific Correspondence (see list on file cover) Royal Society correspondence on nomination of Foreign Member (to be consulted only with permission of the Keeper of Western Manuscripts)o Royal Society correspondence on publications policy. Royel Society correspondence on nomination (to be consulted only with permission of the Keeper of Western Manuscripts). Application for Royal Society grant. Correspondence re British Association. Invitations to lectures Correspondence with Ministry of Aviationo. Miscellaneous Appointments and Awardso Technical Report on ‘Structure of Alloys of Iron‘, 'The Electronic Structure of the Transition Metals'. Report of a conference held at Abingdon, November, 1952 by Basic Properties of Metals Committee (includes article by Hume= Rothery). 9. 1932 - 34 1932 1959 = 67 1935 = 66 1958 = 64 1966 = 67 1956 = 68 1962 1961 = 64 196), = 68 1966 1942 - 56 1966 = 68 1965 = 66 1966 NeGe 1536 Photocopies of letters written to Mr. G. Hedley about the progress of Hume=Rothery's early researches in metallurgy. 1924. - 31 W. Hume—Rothery CSAC 1/73 10. VIII. Index of Principal Correspondents (Numbers refer to items) ALLEN, Norman Percy ALTMANN, Simon ANDREWS, K. W. ASKILL, J. BACON, Professor Geoerge Edward BALL, Professor John Geoffrey BARNES, Re Se BETTERTON, Jesse O. BLACKMAN, Professor Moses BREWER, Professor Leo BUCKLEY, J. A. CARMICHAEL, D. CATTERALL, J. M. A. CHRISTIAN, Professor Jack W. COLES, Professor Bryan COOPER, Je COTTRELL, Professor Sir Alan COULSON, Professor Charles Alfred DELBART, G. ELLWOOD, E. C. EMLEY, E. M. EVANS, Ulick Richardson , FINNISTON, Harold Montague, GOODEVE, Sir Charles GREIG, Professor James HARRISON, W. ; HARTREE, Professor D. Re HEADLAM—MORLEY, K. ~ HEGNE, Volker HOWARTH, C. We HODGE, Sir William 69, 141, 143 32 112 29 36 149 127 130 106 36 129 95 106 109, 118 36, 105, 106, 131 105 141, 142, 143 105, 106, 132, 132a, 133, 133a 150 95 121 141 149 141 145 105 135, 136 80 105, 106, 137 120, 121 141 JONES, Professor Harry 138 11. TTW. Hume—Rothery csac 1/73 KAUFMAN, Larry KOCH, Professor Carl KURTI, Professor Nicholas LEAK, GoM LINSTEAD, Sir Reginald Patrick LOMER, W. M. LONSDALE, Dame Kathleen, LUNN, Borge McCANCE, Sir Andrew MASSALSKI, Dr. MAXWELL, I. Robert MENDELSSOHN, Kurt MORROUGH, Henton | MOTT, B. We MOTT, Sir Neville Francis NEWBURGH, R. PEARSON, W. P. PEIERLS, Sir Rudolf PFEIL, Leonard Bessemer POOLE, D. Me 134 36 142 124 149 105, 139 106, 121 36 141 105, 140 124 106 143 140 105, 140, 142 106 105, 112 132a, 140 120, 141 127 RAYNOR, Professor Geoffrey Vincent 121, 140, 141 ROLFE, C. ROSSOTTI, Francis ROTHERHAM, Leonard SCOTT, J. R. C. SIMON, Sir Francis SINHA, Ashok SKINNER, Professor H. SMALLMAN, Professor R. . E. SODDY, Professor Frederick SYKES, Sir Charles B. WALDRON, Professor M. WATERSTRAT, Richard WILLIAMS, L. R. WILLIAMS, William B. ZIMAN, Professor J. 113 106 143, 149 106 132a 139 106 120, 121 140 141 127 36, 140 95 120 121