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NIRNS Committee papers

1958
NI/63/22 (reissued): The Financing of University Experimental Work at the Rutherford Laboratory (Original 14 November 1958; amended 16 January 1959; this version issued with NI/63/12)
1960
NI(60)1: Reactors for universities: Interim report by the British Reactor Committee (February 1960) NI/60/11: Procedure for making permanent Research Appointments (2 June 1960) NI/PC/60/05: Electron Accelerator in GeV Energy Range: Report of the Working Party (21 November 1960)
1961
NI/61/2 and NI/PC/61/2: A 4 GeV Electron Synchrotron -- A proposal from the Physics Committee (9 and 22 February 1961) NI/61/3: Membership of Committees (22 February 1961) NI/61/4: University reactors (22 February 1961) NI/61/5: ATLAS Computer Proposal (22 February 1961) NI/61/6: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (1961, otherwise undated) NI/61/7: Common Seal as sketched by the Secretary WW Woodall (22 February 1961) NI/61/8: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (16 May 1961) NI/61/9: 4 GeV Electron Synchrotron (9 May 1961) NI/61/10: Proposed Helium Bubble Chamber (16 May 1961) NI/61/11: The ATLAS Computer Laboratory (10 May 1961) NI/61/12: Suggested membership of the Computer Committee (15 May 1961) NI/61/13: Financial powers of the GPC (15 May 1961) NI/61/14: Use of existing reactors for university research in physics (17 May 1961) NI/61/16: A 4 GeV Electron Synchrotron -- Revised paper (26 June 1961) NI/61/17: Management and staffing policy for the proposed Electron Synchrotron Laboratory (26 June 1961) NI/61/19: Draft annual report and accounts (July 1961) NI/61/20: Future expenditure by the NIRNS (29 August 1961) NI/61/21: Appointment of the Head of the Atlas Computer Laboratory (26 October 1961) NI/61/23: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (24 November 1961) NI/61/24: Working party on the Electron Laboratory -- Siting (21 November 1961) NI/61/26: Comparison of CERN expenditure and NIRNS Forecasts (27 November 1961)
1962
NI/62/1: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (27 February 1962) NI/62/2: Five-year Financial Forecast 1963/64 to 1967/68 (February 1962, addendum 20 March 1962) NI/62/5: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (11 May 1962) NI/62/6: Initial action on the Electron Laboratory (12 July 1962; includes suggestion that it is called the Thomson High Energy Laboratory); addendum Draft Press Statement (16 July 1962) NI/62/7: Letter from the Minister of Science concerning the Electron Laboratory (16 July 1962) NI/62/8: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (10 October 1962) NI/62/9: Progress with the Electron Laboratory (10 October 1962) NI/62/10: Proposed transfer of the National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber from the DSIR to the Institute (9 October 1962) NI/62/11: Duties of the Secretary (9 October 1962) NI/62/12: Theoretical Physicists at the NIRNS (18 October 1962; Letter from Prof Peierls to Prof Flowers concerning theoretical physicists on the staff) NI/62/13: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (29 November 1962) NI/62/14: Progress with the Electron Laboratory (30 November 1962) NI/62/15: Committees for the Electron Laboratory (30 November 1962) NI/62/16: The rate of construction of the Electron Laboratory (30 November 1962)
1963
NI/63/1: Membership of Committees (15 March 1963) NI/63/3: Progress at the Electron Laboratory (19 March 1963) NI/63/4: Financial Forecasts 1964/65 to 1968/79 -- Reconciliation statements and Amendment (15 March and 14 May 1963) NI/63/5: Annual Report 1962/63 (18 March 1963) NI/63/6: Buildings at the Electron Laboratory (23 March 1963) NI/63/7: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (8 July 1963) NI/63/8: Progress at the Electron Laboratory (4 July 1963) NI-63-9: European Accelerator Proposal: The future High Energy Physics Programme of Europe -- Report of a Working Party appointed by the DSIR/NIRNS Joint Consultative Panel for Nuclear Research at its meeting of 6th March 1963 (10 June 1963) NI/63/10: Submission and acknowledgement of the Five-Year Expenditure Forecast. Copies of letters between Lords Hailsham and Bridges (21 June 1963; also 22 May and 11 June) NI/63/11: DSIR Report of the Working Party on Nuclear Structure Research SECOND DRAFT (21? June 1963) NI/63/11: Proposals for Nuclear Structure Research -- Note by the Secretary concerning letter from C Jolliffe (5 and 10 December 1963) NI/63/12: The Financing of University Experimental Work at Institute Laboratories (21 June 1963; refers to NI/58/22) NI/63/13: Rutherford Laboratory Budget 1963/64 (8 July 1963) NI/63/14: Report on the Institute's Financial Situation and Estimates (23 October 1963) NI/63/15: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (23 October 1963) NI/63/17: Comments on the Expenditure of the Rutherford Laboratory and comparison with CERN (JB Adams and JM Cassels, ?1 October 1963) NI/63/18: Estimate of Expenditure 1964/65 and Forecast Estimates 1965/66 and 1966/67; Appendix: The NIRNS Programme for 1964/65 (October 1963) NI/63/19: Report of the Robbins Committee -- Covering note by the Secretary (23 October 1963) NI/63/21: A High Flux Reactor for Solid State Research (21 October 1963) NI/63/22: The naming of the Electron Laboratory (17? October 1963; Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory was recommended) NI/63/23: The Trend Committee's Report as it affects the NIRNS (28 November 1963) NI/63/24: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (December 1963) NI/63/25: Progress at the Daresbury Laboratory (2 December 1963)
1964
NI/64/1: Suggested imbalance between the support of Nuclear and Non-nuclear Research in the Universities; letter from C Jolliffe (30 January 1964, 5 December 1963) NI/64/2: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (10 March 1964) NI/64/4: Review of the Institute's programme, note by John Cockcroft (3 March 1964) NI/64/6: Five-year forecast of expenditure and staff numbers 1965-70 (5 March 1964) NI/64/7: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (15 September 1964) NI/64/11: Recommendations by the Physics Committee concerning Bubble Chamber film analysis equipment, notes by John Cockcroft, JAV Willis, LB Mullett (11 September 1964) NI/64/12: Working Party on computers for Nuclear Physics, note by BH Flowers (1 September 1964) NI/64/13: NIRNS Financial agreements with universities, note by AW Merrison and TG Pickavance (1 September 1964) NI/64/14: Forecast expenditure of the Rutherford Laboratory 1964/65 and comparison with CERN 1964 (11 September 1964) NI/64/15: High Flux Neutron Source -- Report of meeting held on 3rd July 1964, papers from Cockcroft, Lomer, Vick, Mitchell (28 October 1964)
1965
NI/65/1: The future organisation for nuclear physics (28 January 1965) NI/65/3: Residual items of business (1 February 1965)

Minutes of the Northern Universities Accelerator Group meeting held in Liverpool (17 December 1957) Minutes of Northern Universities Accelerator Group meeting held in Birmingham (6 August 1958) Letter from Lesley Mullett to Prof Skinner reporting on the DESY accelerator (5 September 1958) Draft proposal for a second, northern site for NIRNS including siting, advisory committee and possible characteristics of the accelerator (undated but refers to four meetings of some northern accelerator committee) Minutes of Working Party on Future Accelerator Policy held in Liverpool (27 and 18 March 1960)

NI/GP/60/42 General Purposes Committee: Bubble Chamber Plant Room (19 September 1960) NI/GP/64/3 General Purposes Committee: Effect of university expansion on Rutherford Laboratory budgets (Pickavance, 24 January 1964)

Minutes of the British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber Working Party at Birmingham University (2 May 1958); notes on auxiliary equipment (13 October 1958) NEPC/M/1 Minutes of a meeting to discuss Hydrogen Bubble Chamber Services (10 June 1959) NEPC/Part III/M30 Minutes and appendices of the final meeting of the Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber Section of the Nuclear Equipment Project Committee at RL (25 November 1965) NEPC/Part III/M31 Minutes of the Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber Section of the Nuclear Equipment Project Committee at RL (25 November 1965) Memo regarding Treasury approval for Hydrogen Bubble Chamber Services (24 November 1960) DSIR Grant for construction of a Large Hydrogen Bubble Chamber: Statement of expenditure (23 March 1961) HeMCM/1 Minutes of the first meeting held at Rutherford Laboratory (30 May 1962) HeMC/13 Minutes of the final meeting held at Rutherford Laboratory (27 April 1967) HeMCP/43 Helium Bubble Chamber Management Committee: Progress Report (28 June 1968) HeMCP/44 Helium Bubble Chamber Project N45/4/15 Financial Statement for period 1 July 1962 - 30 June 1966 (7 July 1966) NP.6(66) Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber: Completion of Project (6 January 1966) NP.60(67) Completion of Helium Bubble Chamber Project (24 May 1967) HLBC Progress (top-level timetable, 1968) Data on bubble chamber operations (Note from M Snowden, Technology Division, 11 February 1977)

Minutes of Rutherford Laboratory Steering Committee (3 February 1960)

NI/V/60 Minutes of the meeting held at RHEL (11 November 1960)

Letters between Quinton Hogg and Lord Bridges as given to Senior Staff Forum (21 October 1964 from October/November 1963) Confidential note from ACWV Clarke to Pickavance concerning the move from NIRNS to SRC Confidential notes on NIRNS/SRC (Gerry Pickavance, undated but assumed to be late 1964/early 1965) Resources of Research Councils (29 March 1968) Department of Engineering Science (Note from M Snowden on the revised structure of the Department, 21 June 1971)

Minutes of the First Ordinary Meeting of the Housing Committee in Mr Snowden's office, R1 (2 March 1961)

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