Cambridge department colloid science

That department, the Department of Colloid Science in Cambridge University, was the creation and brainchild of Eric Rideal (1890-1974). In his own words, writing in 1947, some twenty years ago it was my duty to attempt to build up a... 

The department s input to undergraduate teaching was slight, and moreover it was geographically separated from the rest of Cambridge chemistry. In 1946, Rideal accepted an invitation to become director of the Royal Institution in London, taking some of his staff with him, and another professor of colloid science (Erancis... 

During the remainder of the 1930s, Langmuir and Blodgett carried out a brilliant series of studies on multilayer films of a variety of chemicals, supplemented by studies in Britain, especially at the ill-fated Department of Colloid Science in Cambridge (Section 2.1.4). Then the War came, and momentum was lost for a couple of decades. After that, L-B films came back as a major topic of research and have been so ever since (Mort 1980). It is current practice to refer to molecular films, made by various techniques (Swalen 1991), but the L-B approach remains central. 

D. J. C. Yates, Department of Colloid Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England ... 

Department of Colloid Science, University of Cambridge, England... 

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