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Authorised form of nameYoung; Sydney (1857 - 1937)
Dates1857 - 1937
NationalityBritish
Place of birthFarnworth, Lancashire, England
Date of birth29 December 1857
Place of deathBristol, Gloucestershire
Date of death08/04/1937
ActivityEducation:
DSc (Lond)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1893
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 371-379, plate, by W R G Atkins
References:
J S Rowlinson, 'The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 143-159
CodeNA6164
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1893/17Young, Sydney: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/8/846Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Sydney Young, Fellow of the Royal Society, 13 Aberdeen Road, White Ladies Road, Bristol9 January 1894
NLB/12/699Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons14 April 1896
NLB/28/62Copy letter from [Theodore E James], to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]4 January 1904
NLB/27/742Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sydney Young, Fellow of the Royal Society, University College, Bristol24 November 1903
NLB/33/15Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Sydney Young, Fellow of the Royal Society, 12 Raglan Road, Dublin18 June 1906
NLB/32/62Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[20 December 1905]
NLB/33/99Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Sydney Young, Fellow of the Royal SocietyJuly 1906
NLB/38/611Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor [Sydney] Young, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 October 1908
NLB/51/468Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Sydney Young FRS26 March 1915
NLB/53/80Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison]; to unknown correspondent5 April 1916
RR/9/390Referee's report by Alexander Crum Brown, on a paper 'On the vapour pressures of ether' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young4 December 1886
NLB/57/125Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor S [Sydney ] Young, FRS28 July 1919
RR/9/387Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on two papers 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part II - A study of the thermal properties of alcohol' and 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part I' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young29 December 1885
RR/9/389Referee's report by James Dewar, on a paper 'On the vapour pressures of ether' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young14 August 1886
RR/9/236Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'Influence of change of condition from the liquid to the solid state on vapour-pressure' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young24 June 1884
RR/9/181Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The influence of pressure on the temperature of volatilization of solids' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young24 August 1883
RR/9/180Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'The influence of pressure on the temperature of volatilization of solids' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young12 July 1883
RR/9/237Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'Influence of change of condition from the liquid to the solid state on vapour-pressure' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young1 September 1884
RR/11/199Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On some of the properties of water and of steam' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young9 January 1892
RR/10/208Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation.—Part VIII. A study of the thermal properties of propyl alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young17 October 1888
NLB/57/574Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor S [Sydney] Young, FRS8 December 1919
NLB/71/936Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Morris William] Travers, FRS, Clifton, Bristol10 December 1928
RR/10/209Second referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation.—Part VIII. A study of the thermal properties of propyl alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Youngnd [1888]
RR/10/77Second referee's report by Alexander William Williamson, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young5 May 1887
RR/10/76Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young26 March 1887
EC/1893/18Young, Sydney: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/9/388Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on two papers 'On the vapour-densities of alcohol' and 'On the vapour pressures of ammonium chloride' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young20 February 1886
RR/11/200Referee's report by Arthur William Rucker, on a paper 'On some of the properties of water and of steam' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young14 January 1892
RR/10/207Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation.—Part VIII. A study of the thermal properties of propyl alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young7 August 1888
PP/10/2Paper, 'Preliminary note on the continuity of the liquid and gaseous states of matter' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young1886
PP/10/28Paper, 'Clausius's formula for the change of state from liquid to gas applied to Messrs. Ramsay and Young's observations on alcohol' by George Francis Fitzgerald1887
PP/10/8Paper, 'On the thermodynamic properties of substances whose intrinsic equation is a linear function of the pressure and temperature' by George Francis Fitzgerald1887
RR/10/79Second letter from William Ramsay, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young23 May 1887
RR/10/75Referee's report by Alexander William Williamson, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young25 March 1887
RR/10/78Letter from William Ramsay, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young14 May 1887
RR/10/80Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young15 June 1887
MC/19/871Letter from Sydney Young, University College Bristol, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society23 November 1904
MC/19/870Letter from Sydney Young, University Chemical Laboratory, Trinity College, Dublin, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society5 August 1904
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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