Research Project
Researchers: Condé, Anne-Marie , E W Titterton (isRelatedTo, hasAssociatonWith) , Titterton, Ernest William (isRelatedTo, hasAssociatonWith) , Walker, Rosanne
Full description This project was established to document the involvement of the Australian Science Archives Project (ASAP) and subsequent organisations with the records of Sir Ernest William Titterton (1916-1990). Titterton was appointed Foundation Professor of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, in 1950, remaining there until his retirement in 1981. After studying under Mark Oliphant at Birmingham University, Titterton made important contributions to the war effort in the development of radar and the atomic bomb. One of only two British scientists to be retained by the US atomic project at war's end, he later worked at the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment before joining Oliphant at the recently established Australian National University. He remained an outspoken advocate of the use of nuclear energy throughout his career. Titterton was left paralysed after a car accident and his daughter contacted the Adolph Basser Library for help in sorting out his large and very disorganised collection. It soon became obvious that it was too much work for a single part-time archivist, so ASAP was called in to help out. With funding assistance organised by the Australian Foundation for Science, work on this collection was finally completed in 1996. After disposing of duplicates and some published material, the final size of the collection was 16.58 linear metres.
Data time period: 20 11 1990