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John Tasker Henderson fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1921-1983.

Reference:

R1559-0-2-E, MG30-B157

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103442

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John Tasker Henderson fonds
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Fonds includes:

15 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1921-1983.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

United States, Germany

Extent:

4.3 m of textual records.
388 photographs : b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of personal records, n.d., 1925-1983, 32 cm (volumes 1-2); correspondence, 1933-1974, 1 m (volumes 2-7); solar eclipse, 1931-1941, 7 cm (volumes 7-8); research, 1924-1948, 80 cm (volumes 8-12); Research Enterprises Limited, 1940-1941, 3 cm (volume 12); History of the Radio Branch, 1939-1948, 27 cm (volumes 12-13); Combined Intelligence Objectives subcommittee, 1945-1949, 5 cm (volume 13); international committees, 1934-1978, 72 cm (volume 14-17); metric system, 1951-1974, 10 cm (volume 17); scientific and technical societies, 1945-1972, 9 cm (volumes 17-18); Columbia River Division and Treaty, 1956-1959, 13 cm (volumes 18-19); renewable energy sources, 1969-1974, 10 cm (volume 19); NRC papers, 1933-1973, 25 cm (volumes 19-20); and subject files, n.d., 1921-1967, 22 cm (volumes 20-21).

The fonds also consists of photographs illustrating the work of Dr. Henderson.

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Henderson, John T. (John Tasker), 1905-1983

Biography/Administrative history:

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Henderson, John T. (John Tasker), 1905-1983 : Dr. John T. Henderson, physicist, was born in Montreal, Que., and obtained his B.Sc., 1927, and M.Sc., 1928, in engineering physics from McGill University. He received his Ph.d. in 1932 from the University of Paris and the TechniSche HochSchule, Munich.

Dr. Henderson was appointed chief of the Radio section of the National Research Council (NRC) in 1933. He and F.U. Heakes represented Canada in the first official disclosures of British RDF (radar) to the Commonwealth countries in 1939. Returning to the NRC, he headed the radar development programme. From 1942 to 1946, he served in Radar and Signals in the RCAF in Canada, Newfoundland, England and Germany. In 1947 he acted as scientific adviser to the Canadian delegation under Lt. General A.G.L. McNaughton of the United Nation's commission on Atomic Energy.

Dr. Henderson was in charge of the NRC part of SHORAN, an interdepartmental project to apply radar techniques to aerial surveying, until 1949 when he was placed in charge of the Electricity Section in the Applied Physics Division, a position he held until his retirement in 1970. He was awarded the MBE in 1943 for his pioneer work in the radar field, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and was the first recepient of the McNaughton Medal.

See also: The Canadian Who's Who, 1960, and Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985.

Finding aid:

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Textual records, graphic photo (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list plus a list of NRC reports transferred from the collection to the Library of the Radio & Electrical Division, NRC in June 1984. Finding aid is also a file list describing volumes 1 to 22. MSS1499 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000246.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1984 from Mrs. Vivian Henderson of Perth, Ont..
Subject heading:

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National Research Council of Canada

John Tasker Henderson - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc., 1939-1945 Vankleek Hill (Ont.), 1932

John Tasker Henderson - Correspondence, 1933-1974 Leaside (Ont.), 1940-1941

Solar eclipses, 1932 Canadian Society for Electrical Engineering, 1945-1972

Labratory notebooks - Canada, 1924-1948 Canadian Standards Association, 1945-1972

Cathode ray tubes, 1924-1948 National Research Council of Canada. Associate Committee on Radio Science, 1945-1972

World War II - Canada - Equipment and supplies, 1940-1941 Canadian Patents and Development Ltd., 1945-1972

Metric system - Canada, 1951-1974 Committee on Patents, 1945-1972

Scientists - Canada, 1921-1983 National Research Council of Canada. Associate Committee on National Museum of Science and Engineering, 1945-1972

Renewable natural resources - Canada, 1969-1974 International Council of Scientific Unions, 1945-1972

Solar houses - Canada, 1969-1974 Inter-Union Commission on Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 1945-1972

Solar heating - Canada, 1969-1974 Royal Society of Canada, 1945-1972

A.G.L. McNaughton, 1956-1959

Research Enterprises Limited, 1940-1941

National Research Council of Canada. Radio and Engineering Division, [194-]

Combined Intelligence Objectives Committee, 1945-1949

United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, 1934-1978
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1984-173 NPC
2018-00010-1
2018-00011-X

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MG30-B157
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