| Reference number | EC/1907/14 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XII, 249 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Pocklington, Henry Cabourn: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Ex-Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Distinguished for his investigations in Mathematical Physics, including the experimental discovery of rotatory polarization in biaxial crystals. Author of the following papers: - 'The Complete System of the Periods of a Hollow Vortex Ring' (Phil Trans, 1895); 'The Configuration of a Pair of Equal and Opposite Hollow Straight Vortices, moving steadily through Fluid'; Electrical Oscillations in Wires'; 'The Conditions of Sensitiveness in Detectors of Radiant Heat'; 'On the Interference Bands produced by a Thin Wedge'; 'On a Method of Increasing the Sensitiveness of Michelson's Interferometer'; 'On the Kinetic Theory of Matter' (Proc Camb Phil Soc, vols viii-xii); 'On the Fundamental Equations of Electrodynamics and Cremieu's Experiment' (Phil Mag, 1901, vol i); 'On Rotatory Polarization in Biaxial Crystals' (ibid, 1901, vol ii). |
| Proposers | R A Sampson; A E H Love; A Smithells; H Lamb; H M Macdonald; C Niven; Kelvin; E W Hobson; W M Hicks |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Access status | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA781 | Pocklington; Henry Cabourn (1870 - 1952) | 1870 - 1952 |