Harold Spencer Jones, 1890-1960

Harold Raistrick, 1890-1971.

Kerry Spencer

The fall of tsarism in Russia in 1917 was the culmination of many factors. It is perhaps widely noted that Nicholas II was not suited to his role as Tsar, mainly due to his character and personality. Resentment of his wife and her involvement with the mystical Rasputin was also widespread and helped contribute to the collapse of the monarchy. Also the state of the country during World War One l...

Harold Varmus.

The Yale Graduate Student Research Symposium (GSRS) is an annual event organized solely by graduate students. The GSRS is an open forum for sharing and learning about the research being conducted by the next generation of scientists today's graduate students. This year, on November 1, 2002, some 300 Yale researchers from graduate students to distinguished faculty gathered in the Levitson Audito...

Harold Davenport

Harold Davenport's father, Percy Davenport, worked in the office of Perseverance Mill, a cotton mill in Huncoat, near Accrington. At first a clerk, he became the company secretary. He married Nancy Barnes, one of the daughters of John Barnes, the owner of the mill. Their first child, Harold, was born on the 30th October, 1907, their only other child Grace was born a few years later. When 10 or ...

Harold Denham

Harold Denham, who died aged 81 on 19 January, was Chief Cataloguer in the Wellcome Library from 1951 to 1982 and earned the gratitude of medical historians and bibliographers by his meticulous editorial work on the Library's Catalogue ofprinted books. Born in Portsmouth on 8 April 1917, he was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and in 1937 joined the staff of Watford Public Library. In 1940...