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Authorised form of nameEsson; William (? 1838 - 1916); astronomer and chemist
Dates? 1838 - 1916
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCarnoustie, Angus, Scotland
Date of birth17 May 1838 or 17 May 1839
Place of deathAbingdon, Oxfordshire, England
Date of death25/08/1916
Occupationastronomer and chemist
Research fieldAstronomy
Mathematics
Chemistry
ActivityEducation:
Cheltenham Grammar School; Inverness Academy; St John's College, Oxford. MA
Career:
Fellow of Merton College, Oxford (1860-1897); Savilian Professor of Geometry, University of Oxford (1897-1916)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1869
ProposerWilliam Odling; Thomas Graham; Frederick Augustus Abel; Alexander William Williamson; Henry Minchin Noad; Henry Watts; Robert Bellamy Clifton; Warren De La Rue; Hugo Muller; Henry Bence Jones; Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland
George Bowdler Buckton; John Stenhouse; Henry Enfield Roscoe; John Tyndall; Benjamin Collins Brodie; Henry John Stephen Smith; William Vernon Harcourt; John Phillips; George Rolleston; Bartholomew Price; Charles Daubeny
RSActivityLectures:
Bakerian (jointly) 1895
OtherInfoRemembered for mathematics of the rate of chemical change.
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Esson W, IM Maull 001312.jpg

SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1916-1917 vol 93 pp liv-lvii signed by E B E
Notes:
DSB gives birth date as '17 May 1839 [perhaps 1838]'. Henry Noad has signed the election certificate twice
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/106836815
CodeNA6346
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1869/08Esson, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/001312Esson, Williamnd
NLB/11/762Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harrison & Sons1 October 1895
NLB/11/140Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Editor of 'Nature', 29 Bedford Street, Strand[April 1895]
NLB/11/216Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, Fellow of the Royal Society15 May 1895
NLB/11/260Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings[May 1895]
NLB/11/378Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings18 June 1895
NLB/53/524Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Edwin Bailey] Elliott, FRS24 October 1916
NLB/26/596Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor William Esson, Fellow of the Royal Society27 April 1903
NLB/45/719Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Professor [William] Esson28 April 1912
NLB/53/567Copy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to Mrs. Gay, The Manor House, Wickmere, Norwich30 October 1916
RR/12/324Referee's report by George Downing Liveing, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the laws connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount.—III. Further researches on the reaction of hydrogen dioxide and hydrogen iodide' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson10 April 1895
RR/10/44Referee's report by William Esson, on an untraced paper 'A geometrical interpretation of the first two periods of chemical elements' by Samuel Haughton2 June 1887
NLB/73/316Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John] Drinkwater Esq., Highgate N628 May 1931
IM/Maull/001313Esson, Williamnd
RR/12/325Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the laws connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount.—III. Further researches on the reaction of hydrogen dioxide and hydrogen iodide' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson19 May 1895
RR/12/327Letter from William Esson, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding the Bakerian Lecture 'On the laws connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount.—III. Further researches on the reaction of hydrogen dioxide and hydrogen iodide' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson24 June 1895
RR/6/139Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On the laws of connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson31 January 1866
RR/6/140Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the laws of connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson27 September 1866
RR/12/326Letter from Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding the Bakerian Lecture 'On the laws connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount.—III. Further researches on the reaction of hydrogen dioxide and hydrogen iodide' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson23 June 1895
MC/27/157Letter from [Augustus George Vernon] Harcourt, St Clare, Ryde, Isle of Wight, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]12 April 1912
MC/27/156Letter from [Augustus] Vernon Harcourt, Runton Hill, West Runton, Norfolk, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]30 April 1912
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