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RefNoEC/1880/14
Previous numbersCert X, 368; A05247
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TitleNiven, Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationLate Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Senior Wrangler, 1867. Additional Examiner for the Mathematical Tripos, 1878 and joint author of the Senate House Solutions for 1878. Author of the following Papers 1. "On some theorems connected with the Wave Surface" (Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, t ix pp 22-25, 1867) 2. "On rotary polarization in isotropic media" (Ibid t ix pp 235-240, 1867) 3. "On the application of Lagrange's Equations to Questions of Impact", (Messenger of Mathematics t iv pp 82-85, 1867) 4. "On a method of finding the parallax of double stars, and on the displacement of the lines in the spectrum of a planet" (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society t xxxiv pp 339-347, 1874) 5. "On compound strains" (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh t xxvii pp 473-491 and Quarterly Journal of Mathematics t xiv pp 196-208, 1877) 6. "On the theory of an imperfectly homogoneous elastic solid" (Phil Mag Ser 5 t iii pp 241-260) 7. On M Mannheim's researches on the Ware surface, and on the Ware surface [sic] (Quart Jour of Math t xv pp 242-266, 1878) 8. A memoir "on the conductions of heat in ellipsoids of revolutions", now being printed in the Philosophical Transactions for 1879, and of other papers on subjects in mathematics or mathematical physics printed in the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics and the Messenger of Mathematics
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. I Todhunter; S Parkinson; Rayleigh.
From Personal Knowledge. A Cayley; J C Adams; William Thomson; E J Routh; J Challis; N M Ferres; T Archer Hirst; J W L Glaisher; G H Darwin; J Hopkinson
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Niven, Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6501Niven; Charles (1845 - 1923)1845 - 1923
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