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RefNoEC/1872/09
Previous numbersCert X, 191
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TitleAdams, William Grylls: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationFormerly Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
Examiner in the University of London.
Actively engaged in Physical Investigations, and in promoting the practical study of Physics as a branch of higher education.
Author of Paper "on the application of the principle of the Screw to the floats of Paddle-wheels" (Phil Mag vol 29)
also of a Paper "on the determination of the degree of Polarization in the case of a ray of common light obliquely incident on parallel plates' (Phil Mag vol 41).
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. Bartholomew Price; John Phillips; Frederick Guthrie.
From Personal Knowledge. R B Clifton; Henry W Acland; William Esson; Charles C Babington; J Chalis; J Clerk Maxwell; S Parkinson; J C Adams; William Thomson; J H Gladstone; J J Sylvester; Alexr W Williamson; Wm Odling
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Adams, William Grylls: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA8034Adams; William Grylls (1836 - 1915)1836 - 1915
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