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Authorised form of namePlaskett; Harry Hemley (1893 - 1980)
Dates1893 - 1980
Date of birth05 July 1893
Date of death26/01/1980
ActivityEducation:
MA
Career:
Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, formerly Professor of Astrophysics, Harvard University
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1936
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1981 vol 27 pp 445-478, plate, by W H McCrea
CodeNA1930
Archives associated with this Fellow
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TG/1/2/2Letter from Thomas Gold to Professor Harry Hemley Plaskett, Oxford2 July 1964
RR/70/185Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'On interference microscopy' by Thomas Ralph Merton1947
RR/69/208Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'A contribution to the theory of the Foucault test' by E H Linfoot1945
RR/72/195Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'On the reproduction and ruling of diffraction gratings' by Thomas Ralph Merton19 December 1949
IM/003597Plaskett, Harry Hemley1947
EC/1936/13Plaskett, Harry Hemley: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/71/110Letter from Harry Hemley Plaskett, to David Christie Martin, regarding a paper 'Microscopy by reconstructed wave-fronts' by Dennis Gabor21 September 1948
AP/81/14Unpublished paper, 'Wind waves. Visible, directional and approximately horizontal contact waves at the interface of atmospheric strata' by Catherine [Catharine] O [Octavia] Stevens1927-1940
AP/81/14/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Wind waves. Visible, directional and approximately horizontal contact waves at the interface of atmospheric strata' by Catherine [Catharine] O [Octavia] Stevens1927-1940
AP/81/14/2Unpublished appendix, regarding 'Wind waves. Visible, directional and approximately horizontal contact waves at the interface of atmospheric strata' by Catherine [Catharine] O [Octavia] Stevens5 December 1939
AP/81/14/3Unpublished correspondence, regarding 'Wind waves. Visible, directional and approximately horizontal contact waves at the interface of atmospheric strata' between Catherine [Catharine] O [Octavia] Stevens, H H [Harry Hemley] Plaskett, A C G [Alfred Charles Glyn] Egerton, G M B [Gordon Miller Bourne] Dobson and S [Sydney] Chapman5 July 1935-22 April 1940
RR/79/67Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'Argon vacuum wavelength measurements' by T A Littlefield and D T Turnbull8 April 1953
RR/77/175Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'An attempt to measure interferometrically the widths of chromospheric lines at the total solar eclipse of 1952 February 25' by H A Bruck and Derek Ainslie Jackson2 September 1952
RR/77/176Letter from Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'An attempt to measure interferometrically the widths of chromospheric lines at the total solar eclipse of 1952 February 25' by H A Brück and Derek Ainslie Jackson, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society20 September 1952
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