Anthony Cawkell

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. [1]