RefNo | NLB/57/659 |
AltRefNo | NLB/57p377 |
Level | Item |
Title | Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor A [Alfred] Fowler, FRS |
Date | 7 January [1920] |
Description | Advises that the Council of the Royal Society has arranged a meeting for 5 February for discussion on the Theory of Relativity, and he would be glad if Professor A [Alfred] Fowler, FRS, could take part and hopes he will with [Sir Frank Watson] Dyson, FRS, [Astronomer Royal] explain the astronomical and spectroscopic evidence strands. Says Sir Dyson will cover the orbit of Mercury and the deflection of light, and suggests Professor Fowler might explain the experiments of [John] Evershed, FRS, and St.John. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Carbon |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA1226 | Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician | 1877 - 1946 |
NA6169 | Fowler; Alfred (1868 - 1940); astrophysicist | 1868 - 1940 |
NA8209 | Dyson; Sir; Frank Watson (1868 - 1939); astronomer | 1868 - 1939 |
NA1208 | Evershed; John (1864 - 1956) | 1864 - 1956 |
NA8213 | Einstein; Albert (1879 - 1955); theoretical physicist | 1879 - 1955 |