Fellow of the Royal Society (1988) Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1981)
Scientific career
Fields
Historian of Science
Institutions
Ministry of Supply Cabinet Office United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority University of Kent University of Oxford – Linacre College
Margaret Mary Gowing (née Elliott), CBE, FBA, FRS (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.
Margaret Mary Gowing (née Elliott), CBE, FBA, FRS (26 April 1921 – 7 November 1998) was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several...
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Nik Keith Gowing (born 1951) is a British television journalist. Nik Gowing was educated at the Simon Langton Grammar School in Canterbury and Latymer...
fire, about which she would later write a book. In 1967, she joined MargaretGowing in writing the history of the British nuclear weapons programmes. As...
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Works General Manager Windscale and Calder Works 1947-1958. Edited, MargaretGowing, published Ca 1960 UKAEA, Risley, Lancs. Indictment: Power & Politics...
official history of Britain's nuclear energy programme, written by MargaretGowing (assisted by Lorna Arnold), published by Macmillan, London, 1974, commissioned...
Francis Rodd, 1948 Introductory British War Economy, Keith Hancock and MargaretGowing, 1949 (transcribed HTML copy) Statistical Digest of the War, Central...
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Works General Manager Windscale and Calder Works 1947-1958. Edited, MargaretGowing, published Ca 1960 UKAEA, Risley, Lancs. "Reprocessing plant B204"...
Experimentation group. His contributions up to 1945 are discussed by MargaretGowing in her "Britain and Atomic Energy, 1935-1945." Born in Zurich, Switzerland...
Anne style. The Oxford University historian of science, Professor MargaretGowing, CBE (1921–1998), lived in Northmoor Place towards the end of her life...
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burden of proof 1977 Richard Southern The historical experience 1978 MargaretGowing Reflections on Atomic Energy History 1979 The Duke of Edinburgh Philosophy...
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shortly after his death by MargaretGowing, "a friend with whom he had worked during the Second World War"; it was from Gowing that the view of the Titmuss...
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