| RefNo | EC/1890/04 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 178 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Burbury, Samuel Hawksley: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Ex-Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Second Classic, and Chancellor's Medallist, and fifteenth Wrangler in the year 1854. Has done much work in Mathematical Physics, especially in the theories of Electricity and Magnetism and the Kinetic Theory of Gases. Jointly author of Watson and Burbury's 'Generalised Co-ordinates;' also of Watson and Burbury's 'Electricity: Part I Electrostatics.' Author of Sundry papers on physical science; for example, the following: Paper in Phil Mag, Jan 1876, 'On the Second Law of Thermodynamics in Connexion with the Kinetic Theory of Gases;' ibid, 1877, 'On Action at a Distance in Dielectrics;' ibid, 1881 (joint author), 'On the Law of Force between Electric Currents ;' ibid, 1882, 'A Theorem on the Dissipation of Energy;' ibid, 1886, 'Remarks on Prof Tait's Paper 'On the Kinetic Theory of Gases;'' Encyl Brit (Joint author) Article, 'Molecule.' Attached to science and anxious to promote its progress. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge: N M Ferrers; Alex Crum Brown; A Cayley; J W L Glaisher; J J Thomson; J C Adams; T G Bonney; M W Crofton
From Personal Knowledge: Henry W Watson; Francis Galton; W H Besant; [S Parkinson]; Charles C Babington; G D Liveing |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Image | 
|
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5868 | Burbury; Samuel Hawksley (1831 - 1911) | 1831 - 1911 |