Correspondence, 1865-1908.

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Correspondence, 1865-1908.

17 letters to J. F. W. Herschel; 214 letters to Joseph Larmor; ca. 80 letters to the Royal Society.

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Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1891.

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Larmor, Joseph, 1857-1942

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Physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters to Lord Rayleigh, 1896-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155003828 Educated at Queen's College, Belfast and St. John's College Cambridge. Professor of natural philosophy, Queen's Colege Galway 1880-1885. Lecturer in mathematics, University of Cambridge 1885-1903. Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge 1903. F. R. S. 1892. Royal Medal 1915. Copley Medal 1921. Secretary of Royal Society 1901. M....

Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910

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Educated at City of London School. After a few years of business he decided to devote himself to astronomy. F. R. A. S. 1854. In 1856 he built an observatory at Tulse Hill and applied to stars the methods of Kirchhofs researches into the chemical constitution of the sun. In conjunction with William Allen Miller (F. R. S. 1845) he devised the star spectroscope and showed that in structure the stars resemble the sun. F. R. S. 1865. Royal Medal 1866. Rumford Medal 1880. Copley Medal 1898. President...