General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "Development of Physics Applied to Medicine in the U.K. 1945-1990", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 5 July 2005. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 28 of the Witness Seminar series, D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey (editors), Development of Physics Applied to Medicine in the U.K. 1945-1990, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2006).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor Peter Williams), organisers of the meeting (Professor John Clifton and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts, publishing permissions and marketing leaflets for the meeting.

Handwritten notes and copies of e-mails regarding the organisation of the meeting and notes between the organisers and editors regarding the transcript and accommodating people's comments.

Documents include;

Paper prepared for the seminar by Dr Alan Jennings titled, "Some Background Information on the Evolution of Medical Physics in the United Kingdom in the Twentieth Century". The paper was then reworked as a second draft titled, "IPEM and its Origins".

Paper prepared for the seminar by Dr Lloyd Kemp (untitled).