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RefNoNLB/57/845
AltRefNoNLB/57p488
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS
Date21 February 1920
DescriptionAdvises that the resignation of [John Edensor] Littlewood, FRS, was accepted by the Council of the Royal Society and [Arthur Stanley] Eddington appointed in his place. Asks if he could look over a short paper by AF Dufton on 'A new apparatus for the drawing conic curves,' communicated by Professor [Sir Charles Vernon] Boys, FRS. Jeans is not certain that the method is actually new.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
NA2191Littlewood; John Edensor (1885 - 1977)1885 - 1977
NA6296Nicholson; John William (1881 - 1955)1881 - 1955
NA8138Boys; Sir; Charles Vernon (1855 - 1944)1855 - 1944
NA8211Eddington; Sir; Arthur Stanley (1882 - 1944); astrophysicist and theoretical physicist1882 - 1944
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