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RefNoEC/1940/15
Previous numbersCert XIV, 307; A04758
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TitleMassey, Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionCitation typed
CitationDistinguished for conspicuous success of his application of quantum mechanics to collision problems connected with electrons, positive ions, molecular rays, protons and neutrons. Was first to provide conclusive experimental evidence (with Bullard) of the wave nature of slow electron scattering processes in gases. Has also published important work on problems of nuclear binding, the ionosphere, positron creation and annihilation, application of relativistic quantum theory to X-ray problems, and was first (with Mohr) to apply quantum collision theory to gas kinetic phenomena. Part-author (with Mott) of 'The Theory of Atomic Collisions,' a standard work, and author of a monograph, 'Negative Ions,' the first connected account of this subject.
ProposersT H Laby; R H Fowler; Harold Jeffreys; J E Lennard-Jones; E V Appleton; J Chadwick; J D Cockcroft; C G Darwin; G Ingle Finch
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Massey, Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA1702Massey; Sir; Harrie Stewart Wilson (1908 - 1983); physicist1908 - 1983
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