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RefNoEC/1909/19
Previous numbersCert XII, 300
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TitleOrr, William McFadden: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationProfessor of Mathematics in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. Ex-Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Senior Wrangler, 1888. Distinguished for knowledge of and contributions to mathematical physics. Author of: - Contact Relations of certain Systems of Circles and Conics' (1896); 'On the Product of Two Hypergeometric Series' (1897); 'On Divergent Hypergeometric Series' (1898, with additions, 1899 and 1900); 'Theorems on the Contact of Spheres' (1897); 'On the product Jm (x) Jn (x)' (1899); 'On the Theory of Electrons' (1900); 'The Impossibility of Undamped Vibrations in an Unbound Dialectric' (1903); 'On the Radiation from an Alternating Circular Electric Current' (1904); 'On Clausius's Theorem for Irreversible Cycles and on the increase of Eutropy' (1905); 'The Mixing of Gases' (1908); 'The Stability or Instability of Steady Motions of Liquids: Part I, A Perfect Liquid, Part II, A Viscous Liquid' (1907).
ProposersR A Sampson; Robert S Ball; W H Besant; A E H Love; H F Baker; T J l'a Bromwich; J H Grace
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Orr, William McFadden: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA1259Orr; William McFadden (1866 - 1934)1866 - 1934
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