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	'''Anthony Cawkell'''(1920-2003) was a British electronics engineer and information scientist.		'''Anthony Cawkell'''(1920-2003) was a British electronics engineer and information scientist.

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	'''Anthony Cawkell'''(1920-2003) was a British information scientist.		'''Anthony Cawkell'''(1920-2003) was a British electronics engineer and information scientist.


	'''Anthony Cawkell''' (1920-2003) was a British electronics engineer, information scientist.		'''Anthony Edmund Cawkell''' was born on August 23, 1920 in Henham, England. (1920-2003) was a British electronics engineer and information scientist.

	Cawkell ~~was an associate of [[Eugene Garfield]] and worked for~~ the ~~[[Institute for Scientific Information]] (IIS) as "ISI’s Man in London~~.~~" For IIS he served as Consultant (late 1960s-1971), Branch Director (1971-1973), Director of~~ Research ~~(1973-1978)~~, ~~and Vice President of Research (1979-1980)~~.		== Career ==
			Cawkell served in the Royal Navy during Wrld War II. He then founded Cawkell Research and Electronics Ltd, which specialized in scientific instruments.

	~~At ISI, Cawkell played a key role~~ in ~~the development of a number of~~ ISI ~~projects~~, ~~including Copywriter~~,~~SciTel, PRIMATE, andSci~~-~~Mate. He was also the author of numerous papers, reviews~~, and ~~book chapters~~.		He became an associate of [[Eugene Garfield]] and worked for the [[Institute for Scientific Information]] (IIS) as "IIS’s Man in London." For ISI he served as Consultant (late 1960s-1971), Branch Director (1971-1973), Director of Research (1973-1978), and Vice President of Research (1979-1980).

	Cawkell left ISI in 1980 to become Director of CITECH, Limited, but continued to serve ISI as a consultant for a number of years.		Cawkell left ISI in 1980 to become Director of CITECH, Limited, but continued to serve ISI as a consultant for a number of years.

			== Contributions ==
			*At ISI, Cawkell played a key role in the development of a number of ISI projects, including Copywriter, SciTel, PRIMATE, and Sci-Mate.
			*Longtime member of the Editorial Board of the ''Journal of Information Science.''
			*Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists.
			*Fellow Institution Electrical Engineers, and Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

			=== Publications ===
			Author of over 150 papers, reviews and book chapters. A list is in the ''dblp Computer Science Bibliography'' [https://dblp.org/pid/162/7571.html]

			== Further reading ==
			*Garfield, Eugene. "Neither rain nor snow deters ISI’s pony express man in London." ''Current Contents/Life Sciences'' 14(12) (24 March 1971) M1. [Reprinted in ''Essays of an Information Scientist'', Vol. 1 ( ISI Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1977), pp. 154–155.
			*Garfield, Eugene. "A E Cawkell, information detective–and ISI’s man in UK", ''Current Contents/Life Sciences'' 14 (40) (6 October 1971) 5. [Reprinted in ''Essays of an Information Scientist'', Vol. 1 (ISI Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1977), pp. 242–244.] Available at: www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/V1p242y1962-73.pdf
			*Garfield, Eugene. "A memorial tribute to Anthony E. Cawkell, 1920–2003." ''Journal of Information Science'' 29, no 6 (2003): 473–474. [https://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/cawkelltribute2003.pdf]


	== Papers ==		== Papers ==
	A series of Cawkell's papers is in Eugene Garfields's papers at the Science History Institute, mainly documenting Cawkell's activities as an ISI employee and, to a lesser extent, his consultant work for ISI as director of CITECH. Mostly correspondence and research and development reports, but also a significant amount of periodical articles, journal articles, reports, and other materials. [https://archives.sciencehistory.org/repositories/3/archival_objects/21537]		A series of Cawkell's papers is in Eugene Garfields's papers at the Science History Institute, mainly documenting Cawkell's activities as an ISI employee and, to a lesser extent, his consultant work for ISI as director of CITECH. Mostly correspondence and research and development reports, but also a significant amount of periodical articles, journal articles, reports, and other materials. [https://archives.sciencehistory.org/repositories/3/archival_objects/21537]

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'''Anthony Cawkell'''(1920-2003) was a British information scientist.

'''Anthony Cawkell''' (1920-2003) was a British electronics engineer, information scientist.

Cawkell was an associate of [[Eugene Garfield]] and worked for the [[Institute for Scientific Information]] (IIS) as "ISI’s Man in London." For IIS he served as Consultant (late 1960s-1971), Branch Director (1971-1973), Director of Research (1973-1978), and Vice President of Research (1979-1980).

At ISI, Cawkell played a key role in the development of a number of ISI projects, including Copywriter,SciTel, PRIMATE, andSci-Mate. He was also the author of numerous papers, reviews, and book chapters.

Cawkell left ISI in 1980 to become Director of CITECH, Limited, but continued to serve ISI as a consultant for a number of years.

== Papers ==
A series of Cawkell's papers is in Eugene Garfields's papers at the Science History Institute, mainly documenting Cawkell's activities as an ISI employee and, to a lesser extent, his consultant work for ISI as director of CITECH. Mostly correspondence and research and development reports, but also a significant amount of periodical articles, journal articles, reports, and other materials. [https://archives.sciencehistory.org/repositories/3/archival_objects/21537]