Metadata: Wolf (Abraham) Papers
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University College London
- Holding institution (official language):
- University College London
- Postal address:
- POST:UCL Library Services, UCL (University College London), Gower StreetLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1E 6BT
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7679 7792
- Web address:
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections
- Email:
- Email: library@ucl.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS ADD 42
- Title:
- Wolf (Abraham) Papers
- Title (official language):
- Wolf (Abraham) Papers
- Creator/accumulator:
- Wolf, Abraham, 1876-1948, Professor of Logic and Scientific Method
- Date(s):
- 1911/1931
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Scope and content:
- Notes on the history of science.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Abraham Wolf was educated at University College London and St John's College Cambridge. He went on to become Professor Emeritus of Logic and Scientific Method in the University of London, which incorporated being Head of the Department of History and Method of Science at University College London (1921-1941), and Head of the Department of Logic and Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He retired in 1941. He was a member of the Senate and of the Academic and External Councils of the University of London till 1944. Wolf was Co-editor of the 14th edition of the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'. In his lifetime, he published many books about philosophers, logic and scientific method. He died on 19 May 1948.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Wolf, Abraham
- Access, restrictions:
- Open.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.ucl.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=MS+ADD+42
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- University College London