Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1877-1917.

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Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1877-1917.

Materials by or relating to James Dewar can be found in the following series: Manuscripts (General): 43 letters to Joseph Larmor in the Larmor Letters; 2 letters to John Hall Gladstone; 2 letters to Arthur Schuster in Schuster Correspondence. Miscellaneous Correspondence: 12 letters to the Royal Society. Referees Reports: 11 reports by Dewar on papers by (i) W. N. Hartley and A. K. Huntingdon (ii) E. J. Mills (iii) W. A. Tilden and W. A. Shenstone (iv) T. S. Humpidge (v) Wm. Ramsay and Sydney Young (vi) H. W. Callendar (vii) J. Joly. Council Documents: 8 items. Miscellaneous Manuscripts: 2 items.

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Schuster, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1934

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Physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1875-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81640450 Educated at Genera, Owens College, Manchester, Heidelberg. Ph. D. Heidelberg. He was professor of Physics in the University of Manchester 1888-1907. F. R. S. 1879. Secretary of Royal Society 1912-1919. Foreign Secretary of Royal Society 1920-1924. Royal Medal 1893. Rumford Medal 1926. President of British Association 1915. Copley Medallist R. S. 1931. ...

Ramsay, William, 1852-1916

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Chemist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Correspondence with Lord Rayleigh about argon, 1887-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155003974 Professor of General Chemistry at University College London, 1887-1912. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1870-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82743733 English scientist. Winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1904. Discoverer of argon, helium, neon, krypton. ...

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....

Dewar, James

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Educated at Edinburgh University. Assistant professor of Chemistry in Edinburgh and afterwards was Jacksonian Professor of Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge 1875. Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, Albermarle St. 1877. Davy Medallist Royal Society 1909. From the description of Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1877-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83660361 ...