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Authorised form of nameHughes; Edward David (1906 - 1963)
Dates1906 - 1963
Date of birth18/06/1906
Date of death30/06/1963
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1949
Age at election42
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1964 vol 10 pp 147-182, plate, by C K Ingold
CodeNA650
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1949/08Hughes, Edward David: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/3549Hughes, Edward Davidnd
RR/73/54Referee's report by Edward David Hughes, on a paper 'Degree of polymerisation and chain transfer in methyl methacrylate' by Sadhan Basu, Jyotirindra Nath Sen and Santi Ranjan Palit18 March 1950
RR/75/97Referee's report by Edward David Hughes, on a paper 'The kinetics of the thermal decomposition of normal paraffin hydrocarbons IV Modes of rupture of the carbon chain' by Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Keith Usherwood Ingold and F J Stubbs28 April 1951
RR/79/4Referee's report by Edward David Hughes, on a paper 'The kinetics of the oxidation of mixtures of benzaldehyde and n-decaldehyde' by T A Ingles and Harry Work Melville27 January 1953
RR/79/54Referee's report by Edward David Hughes, on a paper 'A determination of the dissociation energies of mercury-carbon bonds by a pyrolytic method' by B G Gowenlock, John Charles Polanyi and E Warhurst17 March 1953
RR/79/5Referee's report by Edward David Hughes, on a paper 'The kinetics of the photo-oxidation of benzaldhyde' by T A Ingles and Harry Work Melville2 February 1953
RR/79/93Referee's report by Edward David Hughes, on a paper 'The nature of mercury-carbon bonds in mercury alkyl radicals' by B G Gowenlock, John Charles Polanyi and E Warhurst11 May 1953
RR/79/62Referee's report by Edward David Hughes, on a paper 'Wave functions of the hydrogen molecular ion' by David Robert Bates, Kathleen Ledsham and A L Stewart8 April 1953
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