Researching Margaret Gowing
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 736 people with the Gowing surname? In that year Gowing was ranked number 2844 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Margaret means "child of light" and is of Persian origin.
Records of Margaret Gowing on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Margaret Gowing and the Gowing Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 1020 people with the Gowing surname in the UK? Gowing is now ranked number 3085 for popularity in the UK. |
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Margaret Gowing
Margaret Mary Gowing, (26 April 1921 – 7 November 1998) was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programmes: Britain and Atomic Energy 1939–1945, published in 1964, and the two-volume Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy 1945–52, published in 1974.
Through her work in the Cabinet Office from 1945 to 1959, she knew personally many of the people involved. As historian archivist at the UK Atomic Energy Authority from 1959 to 1966 she had access to the official papers and files of the British nuclear weapons programmes. She was the first occupant of a chair in the history of science at the University of Oxford, which she held from 1972 until her retirement in 1986. As co-founder with physicist Nicholas Kurti of the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre in Oxford, she helped ensure the preservation of contemporary scientific manuscripts.
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