Series 1 - Personal biographical


Date Range1930 - 1987
Quantity107.2 cm, 132 files
ProvenanceTitterton, William Ernest
Description

Lecture and laboratory notebooks from the University of Birmingham, personal correspondence including correspondence regarding EWT's knighthood, biographical notes and curricula vitae, personal files relating to the Department of Nuclear Physics and to colleagues and other organisations


Inventory Listing

1- Quarks
typescript. MISSING FROM BOX
Closed
1-1 Library report
Photocopied list of articles by Harrie Massey.

Includes handwritten notes.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1983    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes, Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-1 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-2 'Typing for E.W. Titterton' - Miscellaneous papers
Correspondence, illustrations, articles and other papers, presumed to have been collected for re-typing.

Includes: book review by EWT on 'Risk assessment' - a study group report, for Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; letter to Gurpartap Singh, (Punjab University); report by EWT on a PhD thesis of Madan Lal Hasiza entitled 'A study of properties of some nuclear energy levels'; letter from Amand Faessler (Universität Tubingen); some photographically reproduced graphs related to nuclear reactors; copy of a lecture to the Institution of Engineers, Perth, 1981, 'The future of uranium in Australia' by Dr C.J. Hardy; copy of 'Notes for the guidance of reviewers' from the Institution of Engineers, Australia; address list of Australian universities.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1980 - 1983    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Graphs, Illustrations, Published Papers or Articles, Apparatus and/or Equipment and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-2 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-3 Address of M.C. Joshi
Address of M.C. Joshi at the University of Bombay, handwritten on scrap of paper.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1980? - 1989?, (probably early 80s)    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Talks and/or Speeches
Inventory Identifier 1-3 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-4 Apparatus problems with back to back gammas
Two photocopied handwritten sheets, pages 2 and 3.

Pages labelled 'TRW' in upper left corner.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1985, (7 August)    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-4 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-5 'Other exposure pathways'
File title is taken from the first heading on a single unattached sheet, page 11.

Includes handwritten corrections.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1980? - 1985?, (probably early 80s)    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts
Inventory Identifier 1-5 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-6 Copyright form
Form assigning copyright to the Australian National University of a recording of a lecture by EWT.

File includes two unsigned duplicates.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1984    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-6 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-7 Drawings of equipment
Two pages of unlabelled pen sketches by EWT, dated 12 February 1980 and 18 April 1979.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1979 - 1980    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Sketches
Inventory Identifier 1-7 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-8 Personal correspondence file
Inwards and outwards correspondence, arranged in reverse chronological order, December 1969 - February 1971.

Correspondents include P.B. Moon; L.W. Fagg (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C); Hans A. Buchdahl (Australian National University); I. Talmi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Dennis W. Gebbie (University of Wisconsin); Gerald E. Tauber (Tel-Aviv University); Arthur R. Quinton (University of Massachusetts); David Caro (University of Melbourne); Gregory Breit (State University of New York at Buffalo); Edward Irving (Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa); Ron J. MacDonald (University of Sussex); Eliel Skurnik (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Alan S. Cooley; Frederick Wheeler; M. Maguire (Standard Telephones and Cables Pty. Ltd); Gvirol Goldring (University of Oxford); the Librarian, Australian Atomic Energy Commission; D.N.F. Dunbar (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University); B.A. Bolt (Seismographic Station, University of California); S.K. Runcorn (The University, Newcastle Upon Tyne); John L. Farrands (Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Victoria); Edward A. Johnston (University of Canterbury, New Zealand); C.John Birkett-Clews (University of Western Australia); Diana Clews; Patti Koorey; William Penney; ? Bennett, W.H Paling Pty. Ltd; George P. Lawrence (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California); the Editor, International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who; R. Hanbury Brown (University of Sydney); J.P.F. (Friedel) Sellschop (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg); Mark Oliphant (Australian National University); R. Morfett (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois); S. Whineray; David Warton (Stanford University Medical Centre); Gary W. Carriveau (University of Copenhagen); Colin Pask (University of New South Wales); Messrs G.A. Goldschmeding's, Amsterdam; O. Sala (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil); John R. Patterson (University of Adelaide); Denys H. Wilkinson (University of Washington); M. Yoshida (Embassy of Japan, Canberra); J.N. McFarlane (Australian Embassy Trade Office, Tokyo); Charles N. Watson-Munro (University of Sydney); Jan Nurzynski (University of Birmingham); Stanley Baskin (University of Arizona); Luiz W. Alvarez (Radiation Laboratory, University of California); the Postmaster, Manuka Post Office, Canberra; Albert Salon, Embassy of France, Canberra; Counsellor of the South African Embassy, Canberra; D.K.R. Hodgkin (Registrar, Australian National University); Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. Ltd; Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, Sydney; Riha. N.V. (manufacturers of electronic organs, Holland); N.J. Verkruisen (suppliers of electronic organs, Amsterdam); Darol Froman; Officer Commanding, Royal Australian Air Force Fairbairn; Mrs P.T. Rudge; Victor Company of Japan Ltd; H. Agnew, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; Lennox Hewitt; Alan Hulme; Fred and Betty Gall; Frederick de Hoffmann (the Salk Institute, San Diego); J.R. Paine (Taubmans Industries Ltd); Mary Arnold to Peggy Titterton; Alan Sharpe (Department of Supply, Canberra); I.A. Geddes; Francis Fox (Department of Supply, Canberra); R.G. Gillis (Defence Standards Laboratories); H.D. Huyer (Philips Industries Ltd); the Commandant, Royal Australian Air Force Staff College; Sister Rachel (Marillac Social and Rehabilitation Centre, Sydney); Bart J. Bok (University of Arizona); Godfrey Stafford (Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, United Kingdom); E. Paget; the Editor, the Tamworth Herald (Tamworth, England); Edward F. Newley (Atomic Weapons Research Establishment); Dorothy Hemus (nee Whitmore); Gerald Walker; E.M. Fox; Robert E. Edwards (Australian National University); Peter Grey (Committee for Economic Development of Australia); James R. Atkinson; John Bunting (Cabinet Office, Canberra). Correspondence in February 1971 includes congratulations on EWT's knighthood. File also includes a curriculum vitae for EWT.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1969 - 1971    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and CV
Inventory Identifier 1-8 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-9 Personal correspondence file
Inwards and outwards correspondence arranged in reverse chronological order, December 1969 - December 1970. This file originally formed the second half of 1/8.

Correspondents include: A. Smith (Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand Ltd.); Wilson H. Hunter (National Aeronautics and Space Administration); the Tom Lee Piano Co. Ltd, Kowloon; R.A. Hohnen; the Mess Secretary, Royal Military College, Duntroon; Colin G. Plowman (Australian National University); the Manager, Organ Department, W.A. Palings Pty Ltd; the Bursar, Australian National University; Messrs Muller and Phipps (Far East) Ltd; Lloyd Olver; C.M. Cumming (Watson Victor Ltd); Geoffrey M. Badger (University of Adelaide); Hugh Ennor (Department of Education and Science); the Secretary, Officer's Mess, Royal Australian Air Force Fairbairn; Jan Nurzynski (University of Birmingham); Tom Lauritsen (California Institute of Technology); I.A. Geddes (Joint Services Wing, Australian Services Staff College); Oliver Lancaster (University of Sydney); Barry Ninham; Jack Risser (Rice University, Texas); Arthur Rajaratnam (University of Singapore); J.A. Kirness (University of Auckland); Stefaan J. du Toit (South African Bureau of Standards); Jim M. Rendel (Division of Animal Genetics, CSIRO); R.B. Hodgson (Department of External Affairs); P. Evans (Ampol Petroleum Ltd); R.D. Hill (General Research Corporation, California); W.B. Budd (Australian Police College); R.B. Gardiner (University of Queensland); A.E. Scott (Australian Journal of Physics); Ken Coop (Radiation Research Laboratory, Iowa); Keith Adler (Australian Atomic Energy Commission); Graham McCallum (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Wellington); the High Commissioner for New Zealand, Canberra; the High Commissioner for Malaysia, Canberra; the High Commissioner for Singapore, Canberra; the Ambassador for Indonesia, Canberra; J.P. Wild (Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO); E.A. Underwood (University of Western Australia); Harlan W. Lefevre (University of Oregon); Allan Fleischer and Pat Fleischer; Tom Lauritsen (California Institute of Technology); Fred A. Lewis (High Voltage Engineering Corporation, Massachusetts); D.W. Colquhoun (Staff College, RAAF Base, Fairbairn); N. Kurti (University of Oxford); Scott Whineray; Robert Street ; Sylvia Moore (MacMillan and Co. Ltd); Maurice Brown (Australian Administrative Staff College); Peter H. Rose (Ion Physics Corporation, Massachusetts); E. Broughton (Australian National University). File also includes: extracts from Faculty Board Minutes (23 January 1970, 14 April 1970); extracts from Department of Nuclear Physics Annual Report; extracts from Council minutes (9 May 1969, 4 November 1969); list of people to whom Annual Reports were sent.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1969 - 1970    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Reports, Minutes and Agendas and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-9 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-10 ANI Corporation Limited, offer to buy shares in Comsteel Vickers Limited
Offer includes statements from the ANI Corporation and Comsteel Vickers Limited, and an independent report by J.B. Were and Son.

Annotated by EWT.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1986    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports and Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-10 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-11 EWT's appointment to chair of physics at the Australian National University
Correspondence, information about conditions of appointment, newspaper clipping.

Includes: correspondence from Mark Oliphant (University of Birmingham), and R.A. Hohnen (Australian National University); information about the appointment of professors to the Australian National University, and the Australian National University's superannuation scheme; clipping from unidentified newspaper on EWT's appointment.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1949 - 1950    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Register, General Correspondence and News Clippings
Inventory Identifier 1-11 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-12 Guest list, 3 August, 1973
Guest list for the evening of Friday, 3 August 1973, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1973    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-12 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-13 Guest list for Sir Mark Oliphant's 70th birthday, October 1971
Typed list of names, with handwritten annotations.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1971    Quantity 1 file
Formats Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-13 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-14 Information for EWT's secretary
Miscellaneous information related to the administrative procedures in EWT's office.

Includes: an IBM typewriter symbol glossary; 'Helpful hints for Professor Titterton's office' and other notes on office procedures; samples of how to lay out frequently typed documents; photograph of staff of the Department of Nuclear Physics, with list of names, dated 18 June 1974; memorandum to all heads of departments on procedures for sending telexes; circular on control and operation of University vehicles; mail addresses of the Departments of Education and Science; information on postal services; information on diplomatic mail.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1971 - 1974    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera, Memoranda, Loose Notes, Samples or Specimens, Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-14 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-15 South African Coal, Oil and Gas Corporation, Limited
Four page information brochure, with EWT's signature.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1974?    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications and Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 1-15 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-16 Committees for Crompton and Mills
Material related to committees set up to consider the promotions of Robert Crompton and Reginald Mills.

Includes: inwards and outwards correspondence with Robert W. Crompton, D. Noel F. Dunbar (Australian National University), John C. Jaeger (Australian National University?), Charles N. Watson-Munro (University of Sydney), D.E. Davies (La Trobe University), John R. Phillip (CSIRO), A.N. Hambly (Australian National University), David P. Craig (Australian National University), A.G. Ogston; curricula vitae and publication lists for Robert W. Crompton and Reginald Mills.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1968    Quantity 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, CV and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-16 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-17 Harry Tomlinson (1913-1971)
Brochure on the work of Harry Tomlinson, produced by the Department of Physics, University College London.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1971    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications and CV
Inventory Identifier 1-17 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-18 Tank and tube sizes and costing of equipment
Handwritten notes.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1989?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-18 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-19 Bockris & Sternglas
Correspondence, articles, reports, memoranda related to the effects of low level radiation on humans, electrochemical sources of power, the disposal of nuclear waste, and solar power.

Includes: 'Compile responses to Sternglas', an article reproduced from Nuclear News, vol. 16, no. 2, September 1973, on responses to work of Ernest J. Sternglas linking low-level radiation to infant mortality and adult disease and death; excerpts from a book edited by John O'M Bockris, 'Electrochemistry of cleaner environments'; letter from G.M. Watson to EWT commenting on Ernest Sterglas' work; I. Dougall and J.E. Newell, 'Management of low-and intermediate-level radioactive wastes at the nuclear power stations of the United Kingdom Central Electricity Generating Board'; part of an untitled report or memorandum discussing the effects of low level radiation on humans; 'Notes on a discussion with E.J. Sternglas, Professor of Radiation Physics, University of Pittsburg, 13th March, 1974', memorandum from J.O'M Bockris to EWT (among others); 'Memo re Prof Bockris's discussion with Prof. Sternglas', handwritten notes; typewritten notes, 'Notes on the principles underlying the control of the discharge of radioactive wastes to the environment' (2 copies); Philip Baxter, 'The energy crisis'; T.M. Sabine, 'Solar Power', The Australian Physicist, January 1974; A.R. Gopal-Ayengar et. al., 'Evaluation of the long-term effects of high background radiation on selected population groups on the Kerala Coast'.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970 - 1974    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera, Reports, Memoranda, Loose Notes and Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier 1-19 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-20 Late material
Miscellaneous articles and reports, broadly related to the hazards and environmental impact of nuclear energy.

Includes: Luther J. Carter, 'Nuclear wastes: the science of geologic disposal seen as weak', Science, vol. 200, no. 9, 9 June 1978; Judy Redfern, 'Hazards of non-nuclear energy', Nature, vol. 272, April 1978; Kenneth Mellanby, 'Obtrusive energy', Nature vol. 273, May 1978; 'New system swiftly checks men's radiation exposure', Japan Economic Journal, 14 February 1978; 'Japan and U.S. will revise fast breeder reactor pact', Japan Economic Journal, 7 February 1978; four issues of 'Environmental News', compiled by General Mining Division Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Limited - contains summaries of Australian and overseas newspaper articles on mining, energy research and production, and related conservation and environmental issues.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1978    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports, Journals and Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier 1-20 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-21 James Bell Machinery Holdings Limited
Thirty-Second Annual Report.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1981    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports
Inventory Identifier 1-21 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-22 Transcript of oral history interview
26 pages of hand-corrected text.

Interview covers EWT's experiences from 1937 onwards. Tape was deposited with the National Library of Australia.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1980    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts, Ephemera, Talks and/or Speeches and Audio Recordings
Inventory Identifier 1-22 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-23 'Deferred study leave - N. Unit - V.C.' - Study leave
Correspondence, reports, memoranda and notes in reverse chronological order concerning EWT's study leave from the Australian National University.

Correspondents include: G.E. Dicker; Robert Street; Kenneth J. Le Couteur; J.K. Sharp; Phillip Brown; R.M. Williams (all of the Australian National University). Reports include: 'Report to Council on study leave, May 8 - July 18, 1975'; 'Nuclear physics sub-unit 1976-78 triennium'; part of an unidentified report on EWT's work and publications in 1973.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1973 - 1977    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Reports, Memoranda and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-23 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-24 Handwritten calculations

Initialled by EWT.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1982    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 1-24 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-25 Information on income tax deductions
Information on the membership dues of the Association of Professional Engineers being tax deductable

Extracted from The Professional Engineer, June 1975

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1975    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera and Journals
Inventory Identifier 1-25 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-26 Canberra Building Regulations
Booklet, annotated by hand.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1956    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 1-26 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-27 'EN memos - present capital position' - Accelerator technology research
Correspondence and memoranda in reverse chronological order on accelerator technology research.

Includes material related to a bank account set up for accelerator technology research, and material on EWT's travel arrangements related to this research. Correspondents include: J.W. Morphett; the Director, Research School of Physical Sciences (both of the Australian National University).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1980 - 1981    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Memoranda
Inventory Identifier 1-27 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-28 Finances
Correspondence and memoranda related to the research funding of the Department of Nuclear Physics, and some of EWT's research trips. Material is not arranged in chronological order.

Correspondents include: Robert Street; D. Grantham; Kenneth J. Le Couteur; R.M. Williams; J.W. Morphett.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1973 - 1981    Quantity 1.1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Memoranda
Inventory Identifier 1-28 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-29 'Personal file'
Correspondence, notes, financial records and photographs, mainly related to EWT's appointment to the ANU, and to early staffing arrangements in the Research School of Physical Sciences. Material is not arranged in chronological order.

Correspondents include: P.B. Treacy (Cavendish Laboratory); W.S. Hamilton; N. Bowkett; E.H. Clark (Australian National University); Ross A. Hohnen (Australian National University); R. Chinnery (Angus Oil Seals); Douglas Copland; Richard P. Feynman (California Institute of Technology); A.C. Baker (Ministry of Supply); N. Stockdale (Australian National University); Vernon Harbin (RKO Radio Pictures); A.K. Longair (United Kingdom Scientific Mission); F.D. Edwards (W. Edwards & Co. Ltd); L.U. Hibbard (Australian National University); M.R. Powell (Ministry of Supply); George Grant (University of Birmingham); J.D. Cockcroft (Atomic Energy Research Establishment); Brian Lewis (University of Melbourne); R. Purchase (Australian National University); J.W. Blamey (Australian National University); Henry Seligman; E.R Davies (Kodak Ltd). File also includes: black and white photographs presumed to be showing early building work on the Research School of Social Sciences; list of scientific books and periodicals held in the library of the Australian National University; report - 'AERE (Harwell) machines for nuclear physics research', by EWT, September 1950; information on insurance policies offered throught the Australian National University by the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited; two unidentified black and white photographs of scientific equipment; leaflet and booklet of information on the services offered by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia; copies of EWT's curriculum vitae c.1950.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1950 - 1951    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Ephemera, Reports, Loose Notes, Photocopied Documents, CV and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-29 Box Number 2 Series 1
1-30 'Recent' - Financial records
Reports correspondence, memoranda and other material related to salary, allowances and travel expenses.

Includes: salary advice slips; bonus certificates from the National Mutual Life Association; statements of payments made to EWT by the Australian National University, including payments for travel expenses; receipt for annual subscription to the Australian Academy of Science; letter to EWT from the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, about a meeting in 1968 to consider the headship of the Research School of Physical Sciences; letter from the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University confirming EWT's appointment as Dean of the Research School of Physical Sciences in 1965; statement of EWT's salary and allowances before and after a salary increase in July 1967; report and financial summary of study leave, September 1967.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1965 - 1968    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Reports and Memoranda
Inventory Identifier 1-30 Box Number 2 Series 1
1-31 Radio course notes
Exercise book with pencilled notes and diagrams, dated October 1943.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1943    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Diagrams and Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-31 Box Number 2 Series 1
1-32 Pure mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 2 October 1934 - 22 November 1934.

Pure mathematics course II.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1934    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-32 Box Number 2 Series 1
1-33 Physics laboratory notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 4 October 1934 - 24 February 1935.

Course II number 2. Includes index.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1934 - 1935    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks and Indexes
Inventory Identifier 1-33 Box Number 2 Series 1
1-34 Physics laboratory notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 21 October 1936 - 29 April 1937.

Course IV number 10. Includes index.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1936 - 1937    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks and Indexes
Inventory Identifier 1-34 Box Number 2 Series 1
1-35 Physics laboratory notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 1 March 1935 - 12 December 1935.

Course II and III, number 14. Includes index.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1935    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks and Indexes
Inventory Identifier 1-35 Box Number 2 Series 1
1-36 Physics laboratory notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 17 January 1936 - 19 May 1936

Course III and IV, number 10. Includes index.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1936    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks and Indexes
Inventory Identifier 1-36 Box Number 2 Series 1
1-37 'Science teaching in various types of schools'
Dissertation by EWT, presented to the Education Department of the University of Birmingham, May 1939.

The work is handwritten, but as it contains no corrections, it is presumed to be the final copy.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1939    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports
Inventory Identifier 1-37 Box Number 2 Series 1
1-38 Astronomy and astrophysics, course III
Notebook, dated 1935.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1935    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-38 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-39 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 29 October 1936 - February 1937.

Physics course IV, series II, J.Young, B.Sc., A.R.C.S., F.R.A.S on 'Relativity theory'; series VIII (continuation), G. Barlow, D.Sc., F Inst. Phys, 'The physiological aspects of sound'.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1936 - 1937    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-39 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-40 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 8 October 1936 - February 1937.

Physics course IV, series I, Dr G.E. Harrison on 'Spectrosocopy'; series VIII (continuation), Dr G. Barlow on 'Modern acoustics'.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1936 - 1937    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-40 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-41 Pure mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 24 November 1934 - February 1935.

Pure mathematics course II.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1934 - 1935    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-41 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-42 Applied mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 9 March 1936 - ?.

Applied mathematics course IIIx.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1936    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-42 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-43 Pure mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 14 October 1935 - summer term 1936.

Pure mathematics course II, conic sections.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1935 - 1936    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-43 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-44 Pure mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 9 October 1935 - 1936?

Pure mathematics course III, book (a). The Calculus: I Differential equations - Professor Watson; II Double and triple intergrations - Professor Watson; III The gamma distinction - Professor Watson; IV Partial differentiation - N.I. Colderwood; V Invariants; VI Extension of Taylor's Theorem to several variables; VII Enler's Theorem; VIII Theory of maxima and minima for functions of several variables; IX The Lagrange method of undetermined multipliers.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1935 - 1936    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-44 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-45 Applied mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 2 October 1934 - 2 February 1935.

Applied mathematics course IIx.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1934 - 1935    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-45 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-46 Pure mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 1936?

Pure mathematics course III, book (b). Continues from 1-44.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1936?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 1-46 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-47 Pure mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, May 1935 - 1935?

Pure mathematics course II, book (c).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1935    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-47 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-48 Applied mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 1935?

Applied mathematics course IIx, book (b).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1935?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-48 Box Number 3 Series 1
1-49 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 10 October 1935 - December 1935?

Physics course III, book (a). Includes annotated copy of physics course III terminal examination, 1935.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1935    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-49 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-50 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 18 February 1937 - ? 1937.

Course IV lectures, Honours Physics, series VII - Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of radiation, Mr A.A. Dee B.Sc (Lond.), A.R.C.S; D.I.C. (Lond.).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1937    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-50 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-51 Applied mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 8 October 1935? - 1936?

Applied mathematics course IIIx, book (a).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1935? - 1936?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-51 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-52 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 1937?

Physics course IV, series IX, Mr A.A. Dee B.Sc (Hons), A.R.C.S, D.I.C. (Lond.) on 'Magteticism'; series X, Dr G.A. Shakespear on 'Thermometry and allied problems'.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1937?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-52 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-53 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 11 January 1937 - ? 1937.

Physics course IV, series IV, Dr T.L. Gibbs on 'The kinetic theory and the nature of heat motion in gases'.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1937    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-53 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-54 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 19 November 1936 - February 1937.

Physics course IV, series III, J.Young B.Sc., A.R.C.S, F.R.A.S on 'Crystallography'; series V, G. Barlow D.Sc., F. Inst. P. on 'Thermodynamics of radiation'; part of series VIII, G. Barlow D.Sc., F. Inst.P. on 'Sound and modern acoustics'.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1936 - 1937    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-54 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-55 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 3 October 1934 - 16 January 1935.

Physics course II.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1934 - 1935    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-55 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-56 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham, 30 January 1935 - ? 1935.

Physics course II, book II.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1935    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-56 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-57 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham.

Physics course IV (Hons), series VI, Dr M.C. Johnson D.Sc., M.A., F.R.A.S. on 'Electron theory'.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1936? - 1937?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-57 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-58 Mathematics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham.

Special lectures in the Mathematics School for Honours Physics students. I 'Theory of matrices', Miss N.I. Colderwood; II 'Hydrodynamics', Dr Kuttner; III 'Mathematical Physics: Electricity and magnetism', Professor G.N. Watson.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1936? - 1937?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-58 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-59 Physics lecture notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham.

Honours physics course III, book (b), 'Electricity and matter', lectured by Professor S.W. Johnson Smith.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1936? - 1937?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-59 Box Number 4 Series 1
1-60 Handwritten notes
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1989?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-60 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-61 Minor car accident
Letter from EWT to Rob [? R. Whitten, Laboratory Manager].

Describes minor car accident in which EWT was involved on 23 June 1973.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1973    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-61 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-62 Nuclear waste disposal
One page of handwritten notes.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1989?    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-62 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-63 Energy consumption and living standards
Eight photocopied handwritten pages.

Discusses living standards in relation to energy needs, and the need for alternative sources of energy. Mentions groups opposed to nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, including the Nuclear Disarmament Party.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1984? - 1986?    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts, Ephemera and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-63 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-64 CRASTE Newsletter
Newsletter of the Committee to Review Australian Studies in Tertiary Education, 14 July 1987.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1987    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Newsletters
Inventory Identifier 1-64 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-65 Tandem - linac accelerator system
Four pages of diagrams, dated 6 March 1974.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1974    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Diagrams
Inventory Identifier 1-65 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-66 Tracks of emitted particles
Thirty page typed mathematical document.

Mathematical proofs and calculations relating to tracks of emitted particles.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1950? - 1969?    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports and Publication Proofs
Inventory Identifier 1-66 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-67 Scientific equipment
Two pages of handwritten notes, with a diagram reproduced from the IAEA Bulletin, vol. 19, no. 6.

Notes apparently describe the performance of some scientific equipment.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1989?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-67 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-68 Vickers Australia Limited
Colour brochures related to the activities of Vickers Australia Limited.

Includes: 'Vickers men at work', number 34, May 1980; Chairman's Address from the Annual General meeting of 7 May 1980; '1979 Annual Review'.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1979 - 1980    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, Ephemera and Talks and/or Speeches
Inventory Identifier 1-68 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-69 Equipment and resources of the Research School of Physical Sciences
Notes, correspondence and memorandum apparently relating to the acquisition of equipment and use of resources.

Headings include: Choice of resonator; Frequency; Liquid helium supply; Liquid helium plant; Users of liquid helium; Choice of pre-buncher. Also includes Australian National University internal memorandum from 'G.D.' to EWT, and a letter to EWT from 'Tom' at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1989?    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Memoranda and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-69 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-70 EWT's knighthood
Inwards and outwards correspondence related to EWT's knighthood, January-February 1970.

Correspondents include: Francis Fox (Defence Standards Laboratory); Noreen Carr; Margaret Walker; Diana Clews; Gerald Walker; Ken and José Allen; Ir. A.A. van Kranenburg (Cyclotron Department, Eindhoven); Geoff L. Williamson (Monash University); W.H. Tripp; George Holt; Garfield Barwick (High Court of Australia); R.L. Dean (Administrator, Northern Territory); L. Reed; R.W. Swartz (Minister for National Development); P.J. Lawler (Federal Cabinet Office); W.P. Holman; L.E. Smythe (Royal Australian Chemical Institute); A.D. Thomas (Australian Atomic Energy Commission); J.L. Symonds (Australian Atomic Energy Commission); Norma Wilkins; Geoffrey McDonald; Eileen Bond; Maurice and Lynette Titterton; R.M. Horner (Ballarat College, Ballarat); Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (University of Pennsylvania); A.K. Mann; Robert M. May (University of Sydney); Donald S. Gemmell (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois); Harry Messel (University of Sydney); Barry Z. de Ferranti; K.W. Knox (Australian Journal of Science); D.G. Anderson (Department of Civil Aviation); Allen Fairhall: Margaret Robinson; A.H. Tange (Australian High Commission, New Delhi); Ron Mendelsohn; Roland Wilson; T.A. Rafferty (Ansett Airlines of Australia); Professor and Mrs George (University of New South Wales); S.D. Mulliner (Limbless Soldiers Association); John Walker (University of Ottawa); L.L. Harris; K.F. Alder (Lucas Heights); David Catcheside (Australian National University); Les Moore; Victor Burgmann; Malcolm Fraser (Minister for Defence); John E. Bates; Colin Plowman [?]; James and Aileen Chadwick; John Jenkin; Susan Lewis; Phillip Law; Brian Sowerby (Australian Atomic Energy Commission); Sydney Sunderland; Herbert C. Coombs (Australian National University); Nancy E. Buttfield; R.J. Gibson (University of Birmingham); Henry Bastin; W.M. Leonard; Leslie Bury; Jack W. Roderick (University of Sydney); Brian Flowers (Science Research Council, London); Doug Waterhouse; T.E. Allibone (Central Electricity Generating Board, London); Frederick Scherger (Australian National Airlines Commission); David Fairbairn; P. Kreveld (Packard Instrument Pty Ltd); Barry Nagorcka; J.H. de Bruyn; Hill W. Worner (University of Melbourne); D.B. Shenton (Astrophysics Research Unit, Berkshire, England); Norma Wilkins; H.R. Scotney (Salvation Army); J. Vernon; Edgar Thomson (Australian Medical Association); Sir Walter Scott; Bill O'Connor; Dick Eggleston; Walter Boas (Australian Scientific Liaison Office); Maurice C. Timbs; A.J. Herz (European Organization for Nuclear Research); Bill Priestley (CSIRO); Jack Gregory; F. Arthur Vick (Queens University, Belfast); W.H. Connolly (State Electricity of Victoria); Harold L. White (National Library of Australia); D.J. (Jim) Killen (Minister for the Navy); Peter Pockley (Australian Broadcasting Commission); Raymond Le Fevre; Arthur Willis (Chief Scientist); John Moroney; Alan Westerman; Frank Richardson; Frank George [?]; Walter Ives (Department of Primary Industry); I.B. Flemming (Department of Supply); R.B. Madgwick (Australian Broadcasting Commission); ? Hooker (Hooker Corporation); W.D. Borris (Australian National University); William Charles; William Boswell (Australian High Commission, London); Ronald Walker (Australian Embassy, ? Germany); Henry Hulme; John Patterson; David Caro; Henry Phillips; Margaret Dando.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-70 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-71 EWT's knighthood
Inwards and outwards correspondence, January 1970.

Correspondents include: Harry and Dorothy Bates; Jack Crawford (Australian National University); G.L. [?] McDonald; Charles Johnston (British High Commission, Canberra); J.K. Uys Ambassasor, (South African Embassy, Canberra); Robert Cotton (Minister for Civil Aviation); W.J. Gibbs; Bob Robertson (Australian National University); Ian Bisset; Dudley and Joan Erwin; D. Gill; Andre Favereau (Ambassador, French Embassy, Canberra); Simcha Pratt (Ambassador, Israeli Embassy, Canberra); Jean and Sam Jones; Phillip [sic] and Lilian Baxter; Hossain Ali (Pakistan High Commission, Canberra); B.M. Stevenson (Ansett Airlines of Australia); H.A. Jones (A.C.T. Electricity Authority); H. McCredie (University of Sydney); J.L. Knott (Australian Post Office); David Brown; Norman Cowper; EWT's mother; Robert Menzies; Tom Drake-Brockman (Minister for Air); John Gorton; Paul Hasluck; John McEwen; William Machon; Bryan Castles; Kurt Gottliev; Bill Palmer; Len Hewitt; Wendy and John Morris; John and Molly Carver; Fred Wheeler; Geoff Sawer; Joe Richardson; Stephen Kaneff; Bill Hamilton; Les and Gladys Martin; Henry Abraham; Joe Burton; Peter Bailey; John La Nauze; Leslie Melville; Adrien Albert; John Wilton; A.L.G. McDonald; John Wark; Michael Lynch (Salesian College, Victoria); Ken Bailey; Dorothy Harvey; Tom Owen; Robert Edwards; Cecil Gibb; Joan [?] Howse; Herbert C. Bolton; Brian Spicer; John Cramer; Edwin Hills; Mary M. Stapleton; Tom Millar; Hilton and Barbara Glavish; H.J. Brown; David Brand (Premier of Western Australia); Gordon Ada (Australian National University); R.A.A. Bryant; Jack G. Beale; Alan Butement; Alan Hulme; Don Dobie; Denis Guillemin (Scientific Attache, French Embassy, Canberra); Peter Mason (Macquarie University); Wilfred Kent Hughes; Tim Cape; Frank Fenner; Frederick White; Ellerton Becker; Denzil McArthur-Onslow; David F. Martyn (Australian Academy of Science); E.L. Freedman (ANZAAS); Bob Walsh; B.B. Callaghan; Nina and Ernie Horton; Jim Nimmo [?]; T.F.C. Lawrence (Department of Supply); Noel Dunbar (Australian National University); Margaret Rossiter; Ted Ford [?]; S.A. Westwood (Information Electronics Limited); J. and J. Jelley; G.T. Pickavance; J.D.B. Miller (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London); Roy Pilgrim; Ieuan Maddock (Ministry of Technology, London); William Cook.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-71 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-72 'Environmental News'
Monthly newsletter compiled by Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Limited, December 1976 - August 1978.

Contain summaries of Australian and overseas newspaper articles on mining, energy research and production, and issues related to conservation, the environment, and Aboriginal land rights.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1976 - 1978    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Newsletters
Inventory Identifier 1-72 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-73 'Environmental News'
Monthly newsletter compiled by Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Limited, August 1978 - October/November 1979.

Contain summaries of Australian and overseas newspapers on mining, energy research and production, and issues related to conservation, the environment and Aboriginal land rights.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1977 - 1979    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Newsletters
Inventory Identifier 1-73 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-74 Cyclotron Corporation
Reports, news releases, drawings and inwards correspondence related to the Cyclotron Corporation.

'Production, selection and extraction of individual pulses from TCC cyclotrons', by G.O. Hendry, January 1972; 'Emittance and energy requirements on CNI-22-155 Cyclotron', by C. Han, November 1971; news release, 'AEG-Telefunken and Cyclotron Corporation Agreement'; news release, about an order from the University of Tokyo to the Cyclotron Corporation for a Model CS-30 cyclotron system; news release about an order from Cidade Universitaria, Brazil, to the Cyclotron Corporation for a Model CV-28 cyclotron system; Cyclotron Corporation drawings for Injector Cyclotron Model CNI-22 Installation, drawing number 8000-165E1; Cyclotron Corporation drawings for Injector Cyclotron model CNI-22 Installation, drawing number 8000-165E0001, including one page of EWT's handwritten notes, and a letter to EWT from David R. Kneeland (Cyclotron Corporation); Cyclotron Corporation drawings for CNI-25 Installation, Australian National University Nuclear Physics I.A.S., drawing number 155E0001, including letter to EWT from David R. Kneeland.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970 - 1972    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera, Reports, Memoranda and Sketches
Inventory Identifier 1-74 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-75 Cyclotron Corporation
Inwards and outwards correspondence in reverse chronological order, mainly dealing with the supply, delivery and installation at the Australian National University of a Cyclotron Corporation 26 MeV cyclotron.

Later correspondence is related to the proposed purchase of a CV-28 cyclotron from the Cyclotron Corporation.
Correspondents include: George Hendry (Cyclotron Corporation); Lowell Carlson (Cyclotron Corporation); Robert O'Neill (Bank of America); P. Lerch (Institut d'electrochimie et radiochimie, Lausanne); J.E. Hanzlik (Cyclotron Corporation, California); K.M. Thomas (Cyclotron Corporation); David Kneeland (Cyclotron Corporation); Hilton Glavish (Stanford University); G.A. Piepho (Cyclotron Corporation); Gary Crawley (Cyclotron Laboratory); Trevor Ophel (Cyclotron Corporation); Frank P. Dickson (Phillips Electrical Industries, Sydney).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1969 - 1979    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-75 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-76 Personal correspondence
Inwards and outwards correspondence on miscellaneous personal matters, mostly with friends and colleagues. File also contains some confidential professional correspondence related to academic appointments in the Research School of Physical Sciences.

Some letters in July 1972 deal with some media appearances by EWT discussing nuclear weapons and nuclear warfare, in particular a 'Four Corners' program on ABC television. Correspondence is in reverse chronological order.
Correspondents include: Maurice Timbs (Australian Atomic Energy Commission); G.R. Graf; F.W. Dawe (Lightomation Ltd, U.K.); Ken Jones (Department of Education, Canberra); Rex F. Connor (Minister for Minerals and Energy, Canberra); W.L. Morrison (Minister for Science and External Territories, Canberra); Kim E. Beasley (Minister for Education, Canberra); ? Schonland; Val Fitch; E.G. Bowen; Colin G. Plowman (Australian National University); Helen Fitch Logedon; Mike Newman; D.I. Gough; J.Brian A. England (University of Birmingham); John Sharpe (EMI Electronics Ltd); Bart Bok (University of Arizona); Tamar Skurnik and Eliel Skurnik (Weizmann Institute, Israel); John Birkett-Clews (University of Western Australia); Anne Tomlinson; Bruce Bolt (University of California); Keith Runcorn (Lunar Science Institute, Texas); J.A. Jacobs (University of Alberta); Rupert Thorne (Australian National University); P.H. Springell; Robert J. Walsh (University of New South Wales); Esme Nixon; Harry Turner; A. Bribosia; D.S. Kemsley; Michael Lynch (Salesian College, Chadstone); Doug Everingham (M.H.R. for Capricornia); H.B.G. Casmir; George Morrison (Centre D'études Nucleaires De Saclay); the Managing Director, Bricon Electronics (Sydney); ? Williams (University of Otago); Frank Stacey (University of Queensland); K. Kesteven (ACT Freedom from Hunger Campaign); Brian Martin (University of Sydney); H. Anderson (University of Papua New Guinea); Lois Free (National Electrostatics Corporation, Wisconsin); G. Carmel (Sigolev Ltd, Israel); David Purnell; Norma Wilkins; Bruce Mainsbridge (University of Papua and New Guinea); Kevin Bray (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg); the Service Department, A.E.I. Gala Ltd, London; G. Goldring (Weizmann Institute, Israel); D.L. Anderson (California Institute of Technology); A.E. Beck (University of Western Ontario); H.I. Thirlaway (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority); Anton Hales (Graduate Research Centre of the South-West, Texas); L. Knopoff (University of California); A.J. Herz (CERN European Organisation for Nuclear Research); Arthur Quinton (University of Massachusetts); Lowell Carlson (the Cyclotron Corporation, California); Jean M. Waller (Australian National University).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1972 - 1973    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-76 Box Number 5 Series 1
1-77 Personal correspondence
Inwards and outwards correspondence on miscellaneous personal matters, mostly with friends and colleagues. Correspondence is in reverse chronological order.

Correspondents include: Stanley Bashkin (University of Arizona); Walter Zuk (Radiation Protection Bureau, Canada); Jean Kearns (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering); Robert Shamu (Western Michigan University); George Hendry (Cyclotron Corporation, California); Joan Freeman (Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell); M. Sobb; Diana Birkett-Clews (University of Tasmania); John Carver (University of Adelaide); Michael Malloy (Australian Universities Commission); Deputy Commissioner of Taxation; Cliff Hill; Edwin McMillan (University of California); Fred Huang; John Salmon (Department of the Army, Canberra); Marge Lauritsen (California Institute of Technology); Eliel Skurnik (Weizmann Institute of Science); Norma Wilkins (the Newspaper Society, London); J. Lloyd Marshall (the Independent, Western Australia); Lang Hancock (Hancock and Wright, Western Australia); P. Grimshaw (Administrative and Allied Officers Association); James L. Tuck (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico); John de Laeter (Western Australian Institute of Technology); Peter B. Treacy (Australian National University); Australian National University Reporter; Ian Graham; Barbara Wentworth; D.L. Davies (Guilford Grammar School, Western Australia); John Clark (Union Debates Committee, Australian National University); the manager, Raleigh Industries (Australia) Limited; Harold Agnew (University of California); Rosemary Kennedy; A.M. Clark (Flinders University of South Australia); Keith Bullen; Frank Dickson (Society for General Purposes); E.T. Linacre (Macquarie University); M.M. Abbas (Ambassador for Pakistan in Australia); Alan Williams (Civil and Civic Pty Limited); J. Geoffrey Wheeler (National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Limited); O.R. Schmalzbach (Australian Forensic Sciences Research Foundation); Richard Watson.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1973 - 1974    Quantity 1.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-77 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-78 Personal correspondence
Inwards and outwards correspondence on miscellaneous personal matters, mostly with friends and colleagues. Correspondence is in reverse chronological order.

Correspondents include: ? Hill (Commonwealth Crown Solicitor's Office, Sydney); W.F. Northam (Monash University); Philip Moon; John Patterson (University of Adelaide); K.J. Bottcher; Heinrich Hora (University of New South Wales); Leon Katz (Saskatchewan Science Council); E.H. Carman (University of Papua New Guinea); Val Fitch (Princeton University); Stuart Butler (University of Sydney); C. Williams (Legal and General Assurance Society Limited); Diana Birkett-Clews (University of Tasmania); Ralph Churches (Legal and General Assurance Society Limited); Jean Kearns (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering); Walter Zuk (Health and Welfare Canada); Ghias Din (Kuwait University); Stefaan du Toit (Uranium Enrichment Corporation of South Africa Ltd); John Hill (Atomic Energy Authority, London); William Wentworth (House of Representatives); Ian Brazier (University of Technology, Papua New Guinea); Joan Freeman (Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell); Edward G. Bowen (Australian Embassy, Washington); Ian Wright (University of Manchester); B. Johnson; John Jelley (Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell); C.John Birkett-Clews; Darol Froman; Peter Parsons (La Trobe University); John Sandover (University of Technology, Papua New Guinea); Ian McCarthy (Flinders University of South Australia); Eliel Skurnik (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Mike Malloy (Australian Universities Commission); Charles Adams; David Kneeland; Ian Adie (Australian National University); Fred Huang (University of Newcastle); Frederick Lewis (High Voltage Engineering Corporation, Massachusetts); Felix Bloch (Australian National University); Robert Voss (Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory, U.K.); Miro Ivanovich (U.K. Atomic Energy Research Establishment); Stanley Bashkin (University of Arizona); E. Balasubramaniam (University of Technology, Papua New Guinea); Roy Middleton (University of Pennsylvania); Herschel Gott (Spectomagnetic Industries, California); Kay and Raymond Johnson; Barry MacKinnon (Auckland Nuclear Accessory Limited). File also includes paper: 'Development and operation of a prototype superconducting linac for heavy-ion acceleration'.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1974 - 1975    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier 1-78 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-79 Personal correspondence
Inwards and outwards correspondence on miscellaneous personal matters, mostly with friends and colleagues. Some correspondence deals with personal financial matters. Correspondence is in reverse chronological order.

Correspondents include: J.N. Falkingham (Rector of St Paul's, Manuka, Canberra); G.C. Dale (Central Electricity Generating Board); P.G. Koontz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); the Ministry of Education, Pensions Branch, U.K.; H.M. Inspector of Taxes, Cardiff, U.K.; Brian Flowers (Imperial College of Science and Technology); the Superannuation Officer, Australian National University; Jean Kearns; John Birkett-Clews; William C. Wentworth; the manager, Commercial Bank of Australia; I. Ferguson, Blackwells Book Shop (U.K.); John Hill (Atomic Energy Authority, London); the Editor, Australian National University Reporter; Hugh Ennor; A.J.E. Boyle (University of Western Australia); Australian Taxation Office; Chong Wah; Officer-in-Charge, Registration Operations, Canberra; Stefaan du Toit; John Sandover (South Australian Board of Advanced Education); Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd; John Newton; Robert Leighton; William A. Fowler; Mrs ? Stoddart (Meares & Phillips, Stock and Sharebrokers, Canberra); Leon Katz (Science Policy Secretariat, Government of Saskatchewan, Canada); Ann Moyal (New South Wales Institute of Technology); Murray Tyrrel; Jan Nurzynski (Eidg. Technische Hochschule Zurich); Joan Freeman (Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell); the telephone manager, Telecom Australia, Canberra); the Secretary, A.C.T. Electricity Authority; Silva Newton (University of California); Mary and David Kneeland; B.A. MacKinnon (A.N.A.C., New Zealand); Walter M. Zuk (Radio Protection Bureau, Ontario); Messrs B.M. Higginbotham Pty Ltd, Parramatta, NSW); Diana Birkett-Clews (University of Tasmania); Mark Oliphant; Ken Purser(General Ionex Corporation, Massachusetts); J. Skehan (Liberal Party of Australia); R. Whittle (Australian National University); Max Jacobs; Percy Partridge; Harry Bloom (University of Tasmania); Valston Hancock (Royal Commonwealth Society); Reginald Richardson (University of British Columbia); Zelman Cowan (University of Queensland); Faye Ajzenberg-Selove (University of Pennsylvannia); Robert Voss (Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory, U.K.); George Morrison (University of Birmingham); Heinz (Heinrich) Hora (University of New South Wales); Friedel Sellschop (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa); Erich Weigold (Flinders University of South Australia); Mavis Boswell; Ieks van Heerden (Southern Universities Nuclear Institute, South Africa); Ken Allen (University of Oxford); Joe Wampler (Anglo-Australian Telescope); John Bolton (CSIRO Radio Telescope, Parkes, NSW); Brian England (University of Birmingham); Ian Adie (University of South Carolina); Peter Logan (University of Technology, Papua New Guinea); Peer De Silva; Darol and Ethel Froman; K.J. Bottcher; Frank Dickson (Macquarie University); John Kerr (Governor General of Australia); Doug Anthony (Deputy Prime Minister of Australia); Keith Adler (Australian Atomic Energy Commission); F.A. Small; Frederick Wheeler; Bart Bok; R.M. Horner (Ballarat and Clarendon College); Colin Plowman (University of New South Wales).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1975 - 1979    Quantity 1.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-79 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-80 'Old file - Professor Titterton's proposed unit'
Correspondence and other material related to staffing of a proposed new research unit (in the Department of Nuclear Physics?).

Publications, which relate to the work of Glen T. Hickey (applicant for Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Australian National University), include: 'Polarization of Neutrons elastically scattered from 16O' by G.T. Hickey, F.W.K. Firk, R.J. Holt, R. Nath and H.L. Schultz, reprinted from Physics Letters, volume 47B, No. 4, 26 November 1973; list of abstracts from an unidentified conference, including abstract related to above reprint; 'Elastic scattering of polarised neutrons from 6Li and 9Be', by R.J. Holt, F.W.K. Firk, R. Nath, and H.L. Schultz, abstract submitted for the Washington meeting of the American Physical Society, April 1974; 'R-matrix and phase shift analyses of neutron polarization measurements from n-16O scattering', by G.T. Hickey, F.W.K. Firth, R.J. Holt and R. Nath; 'The polarization of neutrons in n-16O scattering', dissertation by Glen T. Hickey presented to the Graduate School of Yale University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Correspondents include: Kenneth J. Le Couteur (Australian National University); Walter Zuk (Radiation Protection Bureau, Ontario); Glen T. Hickey; Frank W.K. Firk (Yale University); D. Allan Bromley (Yale University).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1973 - 1975    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Published Papers or Articles and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-80 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-81 Examination of theses
Correspondence and reports related to EWT's acting as an external examiner of post-graduate theses from Australia and overseas. Material is broadly in reverse chronological order.

Correspondents and candidates include: E.M. Khairy and Ghias Din on the thesis of Abdulrasool Mohammad Al-Naser (University of Kuwait); D. Lewis on the thesis of K.J. Bottcher (University of Western Australia); the Registrar, Aligarh Muslim University, India, and M.L. Sehgal, on the thesis of Junaid Alam; B.M. Lindsay on the thesis of B.W. Thomas (University of Western Australia); J.W. Leech (University of Waterloo, Canada), W.G. Hoover (University of California), D. Henderson (IBM) on the thesis of R. Fisher (Australian National University).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1972 - 1975    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Reports
Inventory Identifier 1-81 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-82 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers
Material includes book catalogues, letters from engineering supply firms, invitations to social events and speaking engagements, routine administrative correspondence. Most material is in reverse chronological order.

Publications include: 'Control and reduction of armaments: detection of and inspection for underground nuclear explosions', Staff Study no. 10, subcommittee on disarmament of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 23 June 1958. Correspondents include: Norman Hyett; A.A. Robertson (Australian National University); K.H. Clarke (Cancer Institute Board); C.M. Cumming (Guthrie Technological Equipment); T.E. Morgan (British General Electric Co. Pty Ltd); N.Allen; C.N. Goodall (Austral Engineering Supplies Pty Ltd); J.M. Somerville (University of New England); M. Coleman; S.J. Pearce; Le Courier Australien Pty Ltd; Itaru Nonaka (University of Tokyo); John H. Reaves (Elcor Inc.) Walter M. Jacoson (Precision Steels and Alloys); J.L. Carrick; J.H. Martin (Cancer Institute Board, Melbourne); M. Laybutt; M.F. Lamrock (ASEA Electric Australia Pty Ltd); F.S. Arnold; Alice Schreiner; Carol Harford (Foreign Services of the U.S.A.). Circulars include: Tait Company Pty Ltd technical book guide; Nuffield Foundation, grants for research projects in Australia; 'Verbatim report of the 1959 Home Universites Conference' (United Kingdom); Cheshires Book Guide, 1960.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1958 - 1960    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera and Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier 1-82 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-83 Miscellaneous correspondence
Inwards and outwards correspondence in reverse chronological order. Contains some letters from the public asking questions and presenting theories about nuclear physics.

Correspondents include: J.L. Carrick; the editor of Debrett; I.B. Johns (IBM Australia); Alice Schreiner (Karl Schreiner Pty Ltd); O.C.N. Forsgyth-Grant (Starbay Pty Ltd); the Ambassador for France; T.W.L. MacDermot (Office of the High Commissioner for Canada); R.S. Harber (Commercial Traveller's Association); Yen Sundara Vicharana (Chulalongkorn University, Bangok); E.V. Arentz; A.G. Fenton (University of Tasmania); Paul Hasluck (Minister for Territories); R.B. Day (University of California); H.C. Young (Nuclear Chicago Corporation); H. Long; S.R. Dawes; Mechanical Measurement Corporation (Connecticut); Jean Dunn (C.S.R. Company Ltd); J. Goldemberg (Universidade de Sao Paulo); A. Bromley (Atomic Energy Ltd of Canada); John G. Gorton (Minister for the Navy); D.K. Thomson (Tubewrights Australia Ltd); Raymond J. O'Dea (Association of Professional Engineers, Australia); John L. Watkins (Trans-Australia Airlines); C.W. Goodman (English Electric Company, Sydney); I. Bonnington; Nancy E. Buttfield (the Senate); K.J. Killen; F.H. Barr-David (IBM); R.N.H. Haslam (University of Saskatchewan); Harland Engineering (Australia) Pty.Ltd.; Stan D. Whalley; I.P. Worley; Percival J.W. Murfett; T.V. Homan (Associated Bond and Free Stores); B.Jury (Union of Australian Women); G. Clune (Country Women's Association); F. Hoyle (University of Cambridge); Esme Fenston (Women's Weekly); Grace Murdoch; Mordekhai Nurock (Legation of Israel, Sydney); Frank Timson (Member for Higinbotham, House of Representatives); J.M. Moller; J.D. Turner; W.M. Wilson (editor, Westerly); Alan Ormonde; Ian W. Fraser; R.A. Hohnen (Australian National University).

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1957 - 1959    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-83 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-84 Proposed superconducting linear accelerator project
Photocopied diagrams.

Includes: a diagram of a machine, and two pages of graphs.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1985?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Diagrams, Graphs and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-84 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-85 Defence spending
One page of untitled handwritten notes. Mentions Defence Industrial Committee.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1967 - 1981    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-85 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-86 The Order of St Michael and St George
The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, annual report 1983, and information about the annual service, 1984.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1983 - 1984    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports
Inventory Identifier 1-86 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-87 Re-location of equipment
Handwritten schedule covering a three week period, with references to dismantling, packing and delivery.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1980?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera and Reports
Inventory Identifier 1-87 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-88 Radio Amateur Old Timers Club
Photocopied article on the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club.

Includes a handwritten annotation pointing out a photograph of W.A.S. Butement.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1987    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Graphs, Published Papers or Articles and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-88 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-89 Christmas card addresses
Christmas card address list, covering the United States, South Africa, Russia, Holland, the United Kingom and Australia. Includes original (with corrections) and a photocopy.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1980?    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-89 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-90 Biographical notes on EWT
Inwards and outwards correspondence and handwritten notes related to articles on EWT in various biographical publications.

Publications include: Who's Who; Who's Who in the Commonwealth; International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who; Men of Achievement; Debrett's Handbook; Who's Who in the World; Dictionary of International Biography; Who's Who in Australia; The Writer's Directory; International Who's Who in Community Service; Who's Who in Europe; Men and Women of Distinction; International Authors and Writers Who's Who; International Who's Who in Education; Notable Australians 1978: Pictorial Who's Who; Who's Who in Atoms.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1976? - 1981    Quantity 1.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, General Correspondence and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-90 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-91 EWT's curriculum vitae
Curricula vitae, handwritten notes, correspondence.

Includes: lengthy curriculum vitae prepared at the time of EWT's retirement in 1981, including prose introduction and conclusion (see 1-94, letters to Allan Bromley, W.A. Fowler, Walter Crocker, Robert G.P. Voss, dated 27-31 March 1981); curriculum vitae prepared in about 1973, including several pages of handwritten notes; correspondence from D.J. Bennett and P.E. Glasner about a proposed study in 1977 of scientific leaders, which includes curriculum vitae filled in on a standard form; 'World energy resources: forensic and other implications'- paper read by EWT to the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences in 1974.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1973? - 1981?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Loose Notes, Published Papers or Articles and CV
Inventory Identifier 1-91 Box Number 6 Series 1
1-92 Christmas cards
Christmas card address list, including addresses in the United States, the United Kingdom, the USSR, Japan, Holland, Israel, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. The list contains many corrections.

File also includes correrspondence between the secretaries of EWT, and J. Willmore (University of Birmingham), passing on the address of J. Sayers.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1981?    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-92 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-93 Composite Films
Correspondence and transcript related to a documentary film produced by Composite Films on Australia's role in the development of nuclear technology. The working title was 'Thunder'. EWT was asked to give an interview.

File also includes correspondence related to EWT's participation in the National Library of Australia's oral history program.
Includes: inwards and outwards correspondence with Catherine Santamaria (National Library of Australia), and Harry Bardwell (Composite Films); edited transcript of EWT's interview, titled 'Field of thunder'; copy of signed talent release form, assigning EWT's rights and copyright to Composite Films.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1980 - 1981    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-93 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-94 Personal file
Inwards and outwards correspondence on miscellaneous personal matters, mostly with friends and colleagues. Includes correspondence related to EWT's retirement in 1981, personal finances and domestic matters.

Correspondents include: R.J. Schmidt (Australian National University); Frederick White; the Bursar, Australian National University; John Manley; C.John Birkett-Clews; Mark Oliphant; Adrian Lewis (includes a report on damage done to EWT's house in Forrest by blasting by the Parliament House Contruction Authority); J.O. Newton (Australian National University); G.E. Dicker (Australian National University); Diana Birkett-Clews; Craig and Whitmore (Loss Adjusters); G.R. Peatey (Parliament House Construction Authority); John Proud (Peko-Wallsend Ltd); John Knott; Howard Beale; Ian McLennan; Carl Gustavsen (Civil and Civic); Florence and Grant Koontz; I.G. Graham; Allan Bromley (Yale University); J.H. Carver (Australian National University); the Rector, St Pauls Church, Manuka, ACT; Leonard Huxley; W. Fife, MHR; Ken and Arden Thomas; Stefaan Du Toit; Jane and Fred Lewis; Colin Steele (Australian National University); W. Hirst (University of Reading); Manager, ACT Electrical Authority; Dell and Flanagan Real Estate Agents; the Secretary, Department of the Capital Territory; Norton Villiers Australia Pty Ltd; Edmund Lindberger; Peter Park; Arthur Wills; Frank Callaway; the registrar, Waltons Ltd. File also includes script dated 1973 of a film/television program called 'Discovery', which featured EWT talking about his career, his work at the Australian National University, and nuclear energy research and policy.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1973 - 1981    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera, Photocopied Documents and Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-94 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-95 EWT personal file: Knight Bachelor papers
Correspondence and other material related to the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor (United Kingdom).

Includes: letters to EWT from the Honorary Treasurer, John Howard, and the Clerk to the Council, Althea Rodney; blank deeds of covenant for making a donation to the Society; photograph of the Society's Shrine at the Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, London; letter to EWT from A.R. Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms at the College of Arms; blank forms for being enrolled on the Roll of the Society, and for paying a membership fee; copy of the royal warrant giving permission to members to wear insignia.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts and Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 1-95 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-96 Typed page
Page four of a larger work, discussing levels of Sr90 in Australian human bones and in Australian powdered milk. Includes handwritten corrections, and has presumably been prepared for re-typing.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1959? - 1965?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-96 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-97 Handwritten notes
Words and figure scribbled on scrap of brown paper. Mentions United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, and lists some sources of energy (diesel, coal, hydro etc., with matching figures).
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1987?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts and Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 1-97 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-98 Personal file
Inwards and outwards correspondence on miscellaneous personal and semi-professional matters. Material relates especially to speaking engagements, EWT's acting as a referee for people applying for jobs, scholarships and research grants.

Correspondence is in reverse chronological order.
Correspondents include: Reader's Digest Services Pty Ltd; M.L. Tyrrell (Official Secretary to the Governor) - this letter offers EWT the knighthood; A.A. van Kranenburg (N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken); K. Katayanagi (Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo); William Penney; W.E. Burcham (University of Birmingham); Trevor R. Ophel (Australian National University); Kai Siegbahn (Nuclear Instruments and Methods); H.B. Brown (Sydney Technical High School); W.H. Wimmers (North-Holland Publishing Co.); the Registrar, Australian National University; E.H. Davis (University of New South Wales); Peter Pockley (Australian Broadcasting Commission); Lyn M. Handel; N.T. Bodycoat (University of Western Australia) - this is a covering letter accompanying copies of five accepted but unpublished papers by H.H. Thies; Howard Beale; Stanley Prescott (University of Western Australia); M.S. Wackett (University of Western Australia); D.W. Colquhoun (Royal Australian Air Force); Harold L. White (National Library of Australia); Harry Messel (University of Sydney); Stan Hanna (Stanford University, California); D.H. Wilkinson (University of Oxford); Ann Wilson; Rutherford N. Robertson (Australian Research Grants Committee) - includes copy of a grant application about which EWT submitted a report; Ken King (editor, Science Yearbook, University of Sydney); D.D. Hurditch (Royal Australian Air Force); Margaret Coffey (Melbourne University Democratic Labour Club); E.G. Saint (Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications); J.C. Duggleby (Commonwealth X-ray and Radium Laboratory); K.W. Aspinall (Defence Research and Development Policy Committee); H.H. Rodgers (Australian Police College, New South Wales); Bill Lynch (Australian Atomic Energy Commission); R.C. Cresswell (Hawker de Haviland Australia Pty Ltd); Samuel Devons (Columbia University, New York); P. Lloyd (British Defence Research and Supply Staff); John (Jack) H. Martin (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority); Walter Boas (CSIRO); H.H. Thies (University of Western Australia); the Secretary, Public Service Board, Canberra; John Bonnyman (Commonwealth Department of Health); Sylvia Moore (MacMillan and Co. Ltd, London); P.R. Heydon (Department of Immigration); A.J.R. Yencken; Wilfred Kent Hughes. File also includes EWT's National Mutual Insurance policy, and two copies of his passport photograph.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1969    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Graphs, Published Papers or Articles, Published Reports and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-98 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-99 Personal file
Inwards and outwards correspondence on miscellaneous personal and semi-professional matters. Correspondence is in reverse chronological order. Also included is some biographical material. This file and 1-98 originally formed a single file.

Includes EWT's appointment in 1957 as Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, and his membership in 1967 of the Queen Elizabeth II Fellowships Committee.
Correspondents include: editor, International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who; John Crawford (Australian National University); S.M. Naudé (South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research); John Swan (University of Munich); T.J Carmody (Queen Elizabeth Fellowships Committee, Department of Education and Science); John G. Gorton (Minister for Education and Science); P.R. Heydon (Secretary, Department of Immigration); E.F. Newly (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority); the Secretary, Yale University; the Bursar, Australian National University; Elizabeth Graves (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico); M. Gosset; the Secretary, Department of the Interior; Hugh Ennor; the Ambassador to South Africa; Diana Clews; Members of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Peter H. Fowler (University of Bristol); G.R. Holt (University of Liverpool); D. Kent Evans; Margaret McDonald; R.A. Hohnen (Australian National University); H.J. Rutledge; S.D.L. Horwitz (Horwitz Publications); A.G. Townley (Minister for Defence); Robert G. Menzies (Prime Minister); L.T.D. Williams (Director-General of Atomic Weapons, British Ministry of Aviation); W.E. Crowder (Military Secretary to the Governor-General); Philip Sidney; Anne Sidney; Herbert J. Hall; J.R. Atkinson; S.E. Higgins & Co. (insurance brokers); J.P. Sanders (J.E. Shay Pty Ltd, agricultural engineers, Hampshire, U.K.) - includes documents associated with EWT's purchase of a rotary cultivator; Margaret Summerhays; W. Summerhays; C.F. Parry (Secretary, The Atheneum, London); the Governor-General of Australia; M.L. Tyrrel (Official Secretary to the Governor-General). Also includes 'Draft report by the finance committee on the need for supplementary superannuation provision'; black and white photograph of EWT, and biographical material, probably prepared for an edition of Who's Who or some similar publication.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1957 - 1967    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Graphs and Reports
Inventory Identifier 1-99 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-100 Curriculum vitae and publications list
Curriculum vitae and publications list, and associated material.

Includes: letter from EWT to the Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University; original and multiple copies of 1968 c.v. and publications list; a typed undated list of publications in the Department of Nuclear Physics under EWT since 1957; EWT's manuscript of 1968 c.v. and publications list; a typed publications list dated 5 October 1964; a typed publications list dated 29 November 1961.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1961 - 1968    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, CV and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-100 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-101 Permanent magnet 4-pole lens
Handwritten sheet, referring to an article by J.W. Jogger and J.P. Riley, 'Permanent magnet 4-pole lens', RSI 38, July 1967 pp.955-7.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1967 - 1980?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-101 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-102 Nuclear fission
Five pages of handwritten notes.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1985?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-102 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-103 United States patent for coincidence circuit
Patent in EWT's name. Includes copy of patent dated 26 December 1950, some pages of graph paper, and some with handwritten notes.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1950    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-103 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-104 'Some facts relating to French weapons tests as these affect Australia'
Three handwritten pages, dated 10 January 1973.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1973    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts
Inventory Identifier 1-104 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-105 Overseas telephone numbers
Includes the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1985?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-105 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-106 Renewal of Visiting Fellowship
Notes, report and memorandum relating to extension of EWT's appointment as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1986 - 1987    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports and Memoranda
Inventory Identifier 1-106 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-107 Laboratory notebook
Notebook kept at the University of Birmingham.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1942 - 1943    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-107 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-108 Handwritten notes
'New alpha-source; new shielding and other mods'.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1989?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-108 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-109 EWT's entry in Who's Who in Australia
Photocopy from the book.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1977    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-109 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-110 Obituary of Henry De Wolf Smyth
Photocopy of obituary published the Princeton Packet (United States), passed to EWT by H.A. MacKenzie (Australian National University).
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1986    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-110 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-111 Friday Club
Circular letter from Anthony McAdam to members of the Friday Club, giving notice of future meetings.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1987?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-111 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-112 Amusing trivia
Typescripts, cartoons and material photocopied from various sources.

Miscellaneous trivia, including humorous and satirical prose and verse. Includes: letters to the editor of the Proceedings of the American Institute of Useless Research; article on a new linear chicken accelerator; 'Ballad of the Installation' held in Albert Hall, Canberra, 1952; notice from the Gough Whitlam Memorial Committee; notice from the Bob Hawke Memorial Committee; 'The generation gawp', Punch 23 June 1971; 'Aston's dilemma', dedicated to Lord Rutherford, 1935; 'What have you done for me lately?', adapted from the US magazine Mining Engineering; 'Form of Daily Service' for use in government departments.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1935 - 1989?    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Formats Artefacts or Objects/Realia, Drafts and Sketches
Inventory Identifier 1-112 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-113 List of EWT's files
Typewritten list of file titles in alphabetical order, with handwritten annotations.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 198? - 1989?    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-113 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-114 Toxic materials
Handwritten sheet, 'Toxic materials discharged from a 1000 M W(e) coal fired power station p.a.'.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1978    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-114 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-115 Names and addresses
Handwritten lists of names and addresses, England, Canada, Australia.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 197? - 1989?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-115 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-116 Letter to the Sydney Morning Herald
Photocopies of original and published versions of letter by EWT to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1977    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-116 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-117 Biographical information
Information supplied for publication in Contemporary Authors, including correspondence from Ben Truce, and corrected typescript of biographical sketch.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1982    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Drafts
Inventory Identifier 1-117 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-118 French government scientific fellowships
Information sheet.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1986    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 1-118 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-119 'Backs to the blast'
Invitation to a preview screening of the film 'Backs to the blast: an Australian nuclear story'.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1981    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 1-119 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-120 Post-doctoral fellowships
Information sheet on fellowships at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1985    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 1-120 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-121 Nuclear Knights - EWT's reaction
Handwritten notes written in response to Brian Martin's book Nuclear Knights, possibly prepared for discussion on television.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1980?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-121 Box Number 7 Series 1
1-122 Awards, certificates and honours
Awards, certificate, honours, correspondence and miscellaneous personal papers, mostly illustrative of key achievements and turning points in EWT's life.

Includes: citation of EWT's appointment as a companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; certificate of EWT's appointment as a companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; copy of the statutes of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; EWT's National Insurance card; document related to EWT's superannuation contributions during his time of war service; EWT's School Certificate, July 1930; EWT's Higher School Certificate, July 1932; EWT's Higher School Certificate, July 1934; EWT's Matriculation Certificate, July 1930; testimonials from G.N. Watson (University of Birmingham); I.[?]F. Rogers (King Edward's Grammar School for Boys, Birmingham); letter to EWT from Roger Makins, British Embassy, Washington D.C.) about EWT's position at Los Alamos; superannuation agreement between EWT and the U.K. Ministry for Supply under the Federated Superannuation System for Universities; letter to EWT from the U.K. Board of Education relating to EWT's status as a teacher; letter of congratulation from C.W. Valentine (University of Birmingham) on EWT's Diploma examination results; testimonial from Frank Burkitt (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Tamworth); telegram from ? Bradbury requesting EWT's urgent return to Los Alamos, September 1947; letter from H.D. Smyth (Princeton University) offering EWT a position at Princeton; inwards and outwards correspondence with I.I. Rabi (Columbia University) regarding visit by EWT to Columbia; letters from J.B. Fisk and N.E. Bradbury about the possibility of EWT returning to Los Alamos, October 1947.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1930 - 1957    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera and Display Material
Inventory Identifier 1-122 Box Number 8 Series 1
1-123 'Report on measurement of neutron induced activities on sulphur, nickel and selenium...'
Handwritten report, Report on measurement of neutron induced activities in sulphur, nickel and selenium for events T1 and T2, by J.H. Carver.

Also includes graphs, notes, a handwritten letter from John Carver to EWT, and a handwritten letter from A. Riviene [?] to EWT.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1953    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Graphs, Reports and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 1-123 Box Number 8 Series 1
1-124 Defence Research and Development Policy Committee, Secretarial Notes
Copies of typed reports and minutes.

Includes: Secretarial Note No. 20/1973, final report on Project Barrabool, 30 May 1973; Secretarial Note No. 30/1972, minutes of meeting held on 12 September 1973; Secretarial Note No. 13/1973, Sea dart - evaluation trials; Secretarial Note No. 14/1973, development of target system for Matra firings; Secretarial Note No. 15/1973, Project Turana; Secretarial Note No. 25/1972, Project Barra; Secretarial Note No. 24/1973, cyclic review of the R & D Program, and Review of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Related Physics.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1972 - 1973    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera, Reports, Minutes and Agendas and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 1-124 Box Number 8 Series 1
1-125 Literature search
Index book kept by EWT, listing journal articles on various subjects.

Subjects include: machines; alpha rays; beta rays; low energy; fission; nuclear emulsion; high energy; cosmic rays; scattering; electronics; neutron sources; alpha particles; counters; general topics.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1949 - 1953    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Books, Indexes and Lists
Inventory Identifier 1-125 Box Number 8 Series 1
1-126 Spiers, Quantum mechanics of angular distributions
Excercise book kept by EWT.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1950? - 1959?    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera and Notebooks
Inventory Identifier 1-126 Box Number 8 Series 1
1-127 Letter from Elizabeth Titterton
Letter addressed to EWT from Elizabeth Titterton, dated 15 October 1974, written from Ely in England. Begins 'Dear both of you'.

Discusses political situation and includes newspaper extracts and illustration of Ely Cathedral.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1974    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 1-127 Box Number 8 Series 1
1-128 Certificates of appreciation of war service
Certificates issued to EWT and Peggy Titteron by United States of America War Department.

Certify that they had 'participated in work essential to the production of the Atomic Bomb, thereby contributing to the successful conclusion of World War II.' Both are dated 6 August 1945.

Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1945    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Display Material
Inventory Identifier 1-128 Box Number 8 Series 1
1-129 Certificate of appreciation
Certificate issued by the Rotary Club of Young, in appreciation of services rendered. Dated 14 August 1984.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1984    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Display Material
Inventory Identifier 1-129 Box Number 8 Series 1
1-130 J. Dean and The Australian - publication
J. Dean's letter to The Australian on 30 July 198? in praise of EWT.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1980? - 1989?    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications
Inventory Identifier 1-130 Box Number 8 Series 1
1-131 "Nuclear knights: an analysis of the pro-nuclear views of Sir Ernest Titterton and Sir Philip Baxter" - reprint
Reprint of B. Martin's article with the same title.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1970? - 1980?    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts and Reports
Inventory Identifier 1-131 Box Number 8 Series 1
1-132 Biographical information and publications list
EWT's biographical information and publications list.
Creator Titterton, Ernest William
Date range 1980? - 1985    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications and CV
Inventory Identifier 1-132 Box Number 8 Series 1

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