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James Duncan fonds
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UBCA-ARC-1085
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1.35 m of textual records
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Name of creator
(1919-)
Biographical history
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, James Playford Duncan undertook graduate physics and engineering at the University of Adelaide (M.E., 1954) and the University of Manchester (D.Sc., 1964). Duncan became a professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 1956. He came to the University of British Columbia in the same capacity in 1965 and retired in 1984.
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The fonds consists of copies of graduate and undergraduate theses supervised by Duncan as well as numerous reports that he authored.
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Updated in January 2021, JM.