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RefNoEC/1920/08
Previous numbersCert XIII, 182; A04063
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TitleKnott, Cargill Gilston: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionDate stamp on reverse
CitationLecturer on Applied Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh. General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Author of the following papers among others: - 'Researches on Contact Electricity, 1880'; several papers on 'Relations between Magnetism and Twist in Magnetic Metals, 1883-1892'; 'Magnetic Strains in Tubes of Iron and Nickel, 1896-1898'; several papers on 'The Relation between Magnetism and Resistance at High Temperatures, 1902-1904'; 'Effect of Transverse Magnetisation of Nickel at High Temperature, 1904'; 'Changes of Electrical Resistance accompanying Longitudinal and Transverse Magnetisation in Magnetic Metals, 1913-1914'; 'Seismic Radiations and Propagation of Earthquakes Waves through the Earth, 1907, 1909, 1919' (Trans and Proc Roy Soc Edin); 'Refraction and Refraction of Elastic Waves with Seismological Applications, 1889'; 'On Swan's Prism Photometer, 1900' (Phil Mag); 'Lunar Periodicities in Earthquake Frequency, 1897'; 'Earthquakes and Earthquake Sounds as Illustrations of the General Theory of Elastic Vibrations, 1888' (Proc Roy Soc); 'A Magnetic Survey of all Japan,1888' (Journ Coll of Sci, Imperial Univ, Japan); and other papers. Author of the following treatises: - 'The Physics of Earthquake Phenomena, 1908'; 'Life and Scientific Work to P G Tait, 1911'; Editor of Kelland and Tait's Introduction to Quaternions, 3rd Ed, 1904; Editor of the Memorial Volume of the Napier Tercentenary, 1914; Articles, Pneumatics, Light, Photometry in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
ProposersA Gray; E T Whittaker; C G Barkla; R A Sampson; J Horne; George Greenhill
AccessStatusOpen
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Knott, Cargill Gilston: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA767Knott; Cargill Gilston (1856 - 1922)1856 - 1922
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