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RefNoEC/1910/05
Previous numbersCert XII, 308
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TitleFilon, Louis Napoleon George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationAssistant Professor of Pure Mathematics at University College, London. Distinguished as a Mathematician and a Physicist. Author of the following papers: - 'On Certain Diffraction Fringes as applied to Micrometric Observations' (Phil Mag,, 1899); 'Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution, Part IV - On the Probable Errors of Fequency Constants, and on the Influence of Random Selection on Variatien and Correlation' (Jointly with ProfPearson, Phil Trans A, vol cxci); 'On the Resistance to Torsion of Certain Forms of Shafting, with Special Reference to the Effect of Kenways' (ibid, vol cxciii); 'On the Elastic Equilibrium of Circular Cylinders under Certain Practical Systems of Load' (ibid, vol cxcviii); 'On an Approximate Solution for the Bending of a Beam of Rectangular Cross-section under any System of Load' (ibid, vol cci); 'Reductions of Photographs of Swift's Comet (a 1899) taken atb the Cambridge Observatory with a Portrait Lens' (Monthly Notices, 1902); 'On the Variation with the Wave-length of the Double Refraction in Strained Glass' (Proc Camb Phil Soc, vols xi and xii); 'On a New Mode of Expressing Solutions of Laplace's Equation in Terms of Operators involving Bessel Functions (Phil Mag,, 1903); 'On the Equation of Polynomials in Series of Functions' (Proc Lond Math Soc, 1906); 'On the Dipersion in Artifical Double Refraction' (Phil Trans, A, vol ccvii); 'Preliminary Note on a New Method of Measuring Directly the Double Refraction in Strained Glass; (Proc Roy Soc A, 1907)
ProposersM J M Hill; K Pearson; F T Trouton; A E H Love; C Chree; E T Whittaker; E W Hobson; G F C Searle; Joseph J Thomson; H H Turner
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Filon, Louis Napoleon George: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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