| RefNo | EC/1935/17 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIV, 198; A56673 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Stoneley, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Distinguished for research in Geophysics, especially surface waves of earthquakes. First to give correct application of dispersion theory to determine thickness of upper layers of earth's crust from transmission of Love waves; in two papers (one with E Tillotson) estimated thickness of two upper layers from Gutenberg's data. Recent paper provides new observations of his own. Also showed that surface waves are absent from some earthquakes and hence by a reciprocity theorem checked reality of Turner's focal depths. Has worked also on the Bodily Tides, Rayleigh Waves, and Near Earthquakes. |
| Proposers | Harold Jeffreys; Gerald P Lennox-Conyngham; E A Milne; S Chapman; Horace Lamb; A E H Love; J Proudman |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3564 | Stoneley; Robert (1894 - 1976) | 1894 - 1976 |