| RefNo | EC/1920/08 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIII, 182; A04063 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Knott, Cargill Gilston: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Date stamp on reverse |
| Citation | Lecturer on Applied Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh. General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Author of the following papers among others: - 'Researches on Contact Electricity, 1880'; several papers on 'Relations between Magnetism and Twist in Magnetic Metals, 1883-1892'; 'Magnetic Strains in Tubes of Iron and Nickel, 1896-1898'; several papers on 'The Relation between Magnetism and Resistance at High Temperatures, 1902-1904'; 'Effect of Transverse Magnetisation of Nickel at High Temperature, 1904'; 'Changes of Electrical Resistance accompanying Longitudinal and Transverse Magnetisation in Magnetic Metals, 1913-1914'; 'Seismic Radiations and Propagation of Earthquakes Waves through the Earth, 1907, 1909, 1919' (Trans and Proc Roy Soc Edin); 'Refraction and Refraction of Elastic Waves with Seismological Applications, 1889'; 'On Swan's Prism Photometer, 1900' (Phil Mag); 'Lunar Periodicities in Earthquake Frequency, 1897'; 'Earthquakes and Earthquake Sounds as Illustrations of the General Theory of Elastic Vibrations, 1888' (Proc Roy Soc); 'A Magnetic Survey of all Japan,1888' (Journ Coll of Sci, Imperial Univ, Japan); and other papers. Author of the following treatises: - 'The Physics of Earthquake Phenomena, 1908'; 'Life and Scientific Work to P G Tait, 1911'; Editor of Kelland and Tait's Introduction to Quaternions, 3rd Ed, 1904; Editor of the Memorial Volume of the Napier Tercentenary, 1914; Articles, Pneumatics, Light, Photometry in Encyclopaedia Britannica. |
| Proposers | A Gray; E T Whittaker; C G Barkla; R A Sampson; J Horne; George Greenhill |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA767 | Knott; Cargill Gilston (1856 - 1922) | 1856 - 1922 |