| RefNo | EC/1914/14 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIII, 75; A56885 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Smith, Samuel Walter Johnson: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Date stamp on reverse |
| Citation | Assistant Professor of Physics at the Imperial College of Science, SW. Distinguished for his works on Electrolytic Phenomena and Magnetism. Ex-Scholar and Coutts Trotter Student of Trinity College, Cambridge. Hon Secretary of the Physics Society. Author of the following papers: - 'On the Nature of Electrocapillary Phenomena' (Phil Trans, 1903); 'The Thermomagnetic Analysis of Meteoric and Artificial Nickel from Alloys' (Phil Trans, 1908); 'On the Contact Potential-differences Determined by Means of Null Solutions' (with H Moss, Phil Mag, 1908); 'On the Action between Metals and Acids' (ibid, 1909); 'The Limitations of the Weston cell as a Standard of Electromotive Force' (ibid, 1910); 'On Surface Effects between Mercury and Certain Solutions' (with W F Higgins, Trans Faraday Soc, 1911); 'The Magnetic Transition Temperature of Cementite' (Proc Phys Soc, 1911); 'The Self-Demagnetisation of Annealed Steel Rods' (ibid, 1912); 'The Thermomagnetic Study of Steel' (ibid, 1912); 'The Resistance of Electrolytes' (with H Moss, ibid, 1912). |
| Proposers | H L Callendar; R J Strutt; Joseph J Thomson; William de W Abney; A R Forsyth; T Mather; M O Forster; W Watson; A Fowler; L Fletcher; V H Blackman; W Duddell; Ernest Rutherford; H B Baker |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1323 | Smith; Samuel Walter Johnson (1871 - 1948) | 1871 - 1948 |