| RefNo | EC/1916/16 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIII, 109; A05736 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Pollock, James Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Date stamp on reverse. Part of citation cut out of Printed List of candidates and pasted onto certificate |
| Citation | Distinguished as a Physicist. Professor of Physics in the University of Sydney. An accurate and persistent worker in Experimental Physics, particularly in improving instrumental methods of observing the intensity of gravity, and in measuring the wave lengths of electric oscillations in wire cicruits, and in observing and investigating the ions of the atmosphere. Author of: (with R Threlfall, FRS) 'On some Experiments with Rontgen's Radiation' (Phil Mag, 1896); 'On the Clark Cell as a Source of Small Constant Currents' (ibid); 'On a Quartz Thread Gravity Balance' (Phil Trans, 1899); and other papers - 'Some experiments on Electric Waves in Short Wire Systems, and on the Specific Inductive Capacity of a Specimen of Glass' (with O U Vonwiller, Phil Mag, 1902); 'A Comparision of the Periods of Electrical Vibrations associated with Simple Circuits' (Phil Mag, 1904); 'The Discharge of Electricity from Glowing Carbon' (with A B B Ranclaud, ibid, 1909); 'The Relighting of the Carbon Arc' (with E M Wellisch and A B B Ranclaud, ibid, 1909); 'The Discontinuity of Potential at the Surface of Glowing Carbon' (with A B B Ranclaud and E G Norman, ibid, 1909); 'A Note on the Electron Theory of the Carbon Arc' (ibid, 1909); 'The Mobility of Large Ions in Air' (Journ Roy Soc NSW, 1909); 'The Nature of the Large Ions in Air' (ibid, 1909); 'The Ions of the Atmosphere' (Pres Address, Sect A, Austr Assoc, Brisbane, 1909); 'Note on a Hollow Lightning Conductor Crushed by the Discharge' (with E H Barraclough, Journ Roy Soc NSW, 1909); 'A New Type of Ion in the Air' (Phil Mag, 1915); 'Nature of Large Ions in the Air' (Ibid, 1915). |
| Proposers | Ernest Rutherford; W H Bragg; Oliver J Lodge; R Threlfall; R T Glazebrook; C V Boys; C G Barkla; J A McClelland |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6983 | Pollock; James Arthur (1865 - 1922) | 1865 - 1922 |