| RefNo | EC/1896/07 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XII, 7 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Gray, Andrew: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Professor of Physics, University College of North Wales. Examiner in Mathematics for degrees in the University of Glasgow. For five years Private Assistant and Secretary to Sir W Thomson (Lord Kelvin); for four years Official Assistant to the Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow; and for the last nine years in his present post. Distinguished for his acquaintance with theoretical and experimental physics. Author of the following scientific works and papers: - 'Absolute Measurement in Electricity and Magnetism' (1889); 'Theory and Practice of Absolute Measurements in Electricity Magnetism' (vol i, 1888; vol ii, in two parts, 1893); 'ATreatise on Magnetismand Electricity,' shortly to be published; 'On the Determination in Absolute Units of the Intensity of Powerful Magnetic Fields' (Phil Mag, 1883); 'On the Dynamical Theory of Electro-magnetic Action' (ibid, 1890); 'On the Calculation of the Induction Coefficients of Coils' (ibid, 1892); 'On a New Reflecting Galvanometer of great sensibility, and on New Forms of Astatic Galvanometers,' jointly with T Gray (Proc Roy Soc, 1884); 'On the Relation between the Electrical Qualities and the Chemical Composition of Glass and Allied Substances,' Part I, jointly with T Gray and J J Dobbie (Proc Roy Soc, 1884); 'On the Electro-magnetic Theory of the Rotation of the Plane of Polarized Light' (Rept Brit Assoc, 1891). |
| Proposers | J Perry; S P Thompson; J Milne; O J Lodge; G F Fitzgerald; J H Poynting; W Ramsay; G Forbes; W H Preece; J D Everett; J A Ewing; A W Rucker; G C Foster; J Larmor; T R Jones; R B Clifton; A G Greenhill |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1399 | Gray; Andrew (1847 - 1925); physicist | 1847 - 1925 |