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Authorised form of nameMinchin; George Minchin (1845 - 1914)
Dates1845 - 1914
Date of birth25 May 1845
Date of death23/03/1914
ActivityEducation:
MA (Dubl)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election13/06/1895
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1915-1916 vol 92 pp xlvi-l signed by Oliver Joseph Lodge
References:
Hornsey, R. (2023) 'The many-sidedness of George Minchin Minchin: educator, satirist, and early pioneer of television' (Springer)
CodeNA1135
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/11/347Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harrison & Sons7 June 1895
NLB/35/43Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons8 April 1907
NLB/11/969Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Minchin Minchin, Fellow of the Royal Society12 November 1895
NLB/13/792Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons26 November 1896
NLB/30/663Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Minchin Minchin, Fellow of the Royal Society3 May 1905
NLB/33/630Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Minchin Minchin, Fellow of the Royal Society11 October 1906
NLB/44/87Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to [George Minchin] Minchin3 May 1911
NLB/37/655Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor G [George] M [Minchin] Minchin, Fellow of the Royal Society28 April 1908
NLB/37/760Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor G [George] M [Minchin] Minchin, Fellow of the Royal Society9 May 1908
NLB/37/866Copy Letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor G [George] M [Minchin] Minchin, Fellow of the Royal Society27 May 1908
NLB/44/428Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor G [George] M [Minchin] Minchin FRS11 July 1911
RR/19/32Letter from George Minchin Minchin to Joseph Larmor, regarding a paper 'On the variation of the resistance of Selenium with the voltage' by E E Fournier d'Albe22 January 1912
RR/18/167Referee's report by William Napier Shaw, on a paper 'On an electric hydrometer' by George M Minchin16 April 1911
RR/20/42Referee's report by George Minchin, on a paper 'On the efficiency of selenium as a detector of light' by E E Fournier d'AlbeMay 1913
EC/1895/17Minchin, George Minchin: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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