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Authorised form of nameBoys; Samuel Francis (1911 - 1972)
Dates1911 - 1972
NationalityBritish
Date of birth20/12/1911
Date of death16/10/1972
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1972
Age at election60
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1973 vol 19 pp 95-115, plate, by C A Coulson
CodeNA1119
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/GRS/6208Boys, Samuel Francisnd
RR/72/44Letter from Thomas George Cowling, on two papers 'Electronic wave functions - I. A general method of calculation for the stationary states of any molecular system' and 'Electronic wave functions II. A calculation for the ground state of the beryllium atom' by Samuel Francis Boys to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society19 September 1949
RR/72/42Referee's report by William George Penney, on two papers 'Electronic wave functions - I. A general method of calculation for the stationary states of any molecular system' and 'Electronic wave functions II. A calculation for the ground state of the beryllium atom' by Samuel Francis Boys30 October 1949
RR/71/47Referee's report by William George Penney, Baron Penney of East Hendred, on a paper 'The structure of the reaction zone in a flame' by Samuel Francis Boys and J Corner17 October 1948
EC/1972/07Boys, Samuel Francis: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/71/48Referee's report by Thomas George Cowling, on a paper 'The structure of the reaction zone in a flame' by Samuel Francis Boys and J Corner6 October 1948
RR/72/43Letter from Thomas George Cowling, on two papers 'Electronic wave functions - I. A general method of calculation for the stationary states of any molecular system' and 'Electronic wave functions II. A calculation for the ground state of the beryllium atom' by Samuel Francis Boys to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society13 September 1949
RR/55/57Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of complex molecules. Part I. The theoretical calculation of the critical frequencies of a molecule' by Samuell Francis Boys26 July 1935
RR/49/32Referee's report by Thomas Martin Lowry and John Edward Lennard-Jones, on two papers 'Optical rotatory power. I—A theoretical calculation for a molecule containing only isotropic refractive centres' and 'Optical rotatory power. II.—The calculation of the rotatory power of a molecule containing four refractive radicals at the corners of an irregular tetrahedron' by Samuel Francis Boys[December 1933]
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