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Reference numberMC/16/281
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Harold [Bailey] Dixon, The Owens College, Manchester, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]
CreatorDixon; Harold Baily (1852-1930)
Date28 January 1896
DescriptionDixon requests a grant from the Government Fund, in order to carry on his investigations 'on the nature of the explosion wave in gases and on the mode of burning of gaseous carbon'. Suggests the Council of the Royal Society should appoint someone in his place on the Chemistry Committee, or send is application to the Physics Committee if they are not 'over burdened', as he would not like the decision ot be made by a Committee he is a part of.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8203Dixon; Harold Baily (1852 - 1930); chemist and amateur footballer1852 - 1930
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist1842 - 1919
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