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Authorised form of nameCoker; Ernest George (1869 - 1946)
Dates1869 - 1946
Date of birth26 April 1869
Date of death09/04/1946
ActivityEducation:
MA (Camb); DSc (Edin)
Memberships:
FRSE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/05/1916
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1936
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 389-393, plate, by H T Jessop
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/104534574
CodeNA1155
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MS/525/5/3/12Letter from Ernest George Coker, University of London, University College, to [Dugald] Clerk11 April 1916
RR/15/314Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'An experimental determination of the variation of the critical velocity of water with temperature' by Ernest George Coker and S B Clement2 August 1902
NLB/25/382Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Dr Ernest George Coker, [Fellow of the Royal Society]27 October 1902
NLB/25/659Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Ernest George Coker, [Fellow of the Royal Society], and S B Clement4 December 1902
NLB/54/101Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS7 February 1917
NLB/45/287Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Ernest] G [George] Coker2 February 1912
NLB/45/252Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Ernest] G [George] Coker26 January 1912
NLB/52/594Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Ernest George Coker; University College, Gower Street, W.C26 January 1916
NLB/52/456Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Alfred Ewing, FRS14 December 1915
RR/18/119Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on an unnamed paper by Ernest George Coker27 December 1911
NLB/56/384Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS28 January 1919
RR/29/66Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Experiments on the duration of impacts, mainly of bars with rounded ends, in elucidation of the elastic theory' by J E P Wagstaff19 February 1924
NLB/69/566Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Ernest George] Coker, FRS9 June 1926
RR/37/62Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Elastic constants of fused quartz. Change of young's modulus with temperature' by H D H Drane12 September 1928
RR/41/50Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'Cleavage tests of timber' by Ernest George Coker and G P ColemanMay 1930
IM/000914Coker, Ernest George1922
RR/42/61Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The solution of the torsion problem for circular shafts of varying radius' by Alexander Thom and James OrrJanuary 1931
RR/25/5Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Vibration and strength of struts and continuous beams under end thrusts' by W L Cowley and H Levy30 January 1919
NLB/61/542Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS23 July 1921
RR/52/88Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Finite strain in elastic problems' by B R Seth6 August 1934
RR/27/51Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'On the stress-optical effect in transparent solids strained beyond the elastic limit' by Louis Napoleon George Filon and H T Jessop27 February 1922
RR/62/18Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Finite strain in elastic problems—II' by W M Shepherd and B R Seth[April 1936]
NLB/65/46Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS17 July 1923
NLB/57/846Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor EG [Ernest George] Coker, FRS21 February 1920
NLB/57/739Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS, KCB, Chairman of the Physics Sectional Committee 30 January 1920
NLB/57/764Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor EG [Ernest George]Coker, FRS2 February 1920
NLB/64/353Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS22 March 1923
NLB/64/577Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS05 May 1923
RR/33/39Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'On steam engines. Part I, II and III' by G M Clark11 June 1926
NLB/65/177Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS8 September 1923
NLB/65/721Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS12 December 1923
NLB/65/703Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director of the National Physical Laboratory11 December 1923
RR/28/110Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The behaviour of metals subjected to repeated stresses' by Herbert John Gough and D Hanson3 September 1923
NLB/71/599Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Ernest George] Coker, FRS18 July 1928
NLB/71/5Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society;to Prof. [Ernest George] Coker, FRS1 December 1927
NLB/73/128Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Ernest George] Coker, FRS15 December 1930
RR/15/315Referee's report by Andrew Gray, on a paper 'An experimental determination of the variation of the critical velocity of water with temperature' by Ernest George Coker and S B ClementOctober 1902
NLB/71/210Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Ernest George] Coker, FRS11 February 1928
EC/1916/09Coker, Ernest George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/15/155Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'A determination by a thermal method of the variation of the critical velocity of water with temperature' by Howard Turner Barnes and Ernest George Coker28 October 1901
RR/51/71Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The motion of a rotor carried by a flexible shaft in flexible bearings' by David Macleish Smith1 March 1933
RR/15/154Referee's report by Henry Selby Hele-Shaw, on a paper 'A determination by a thermal method of the variation of the critical velocity of water with temperature' by Howard Turner Barnes and Ernest George Coker15 October 1901
RR/24/41Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Curved beams' by James J Guest2 February 1918
RR/45/60Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The elastic limit of metals exposed to tri-axial stress' by Gilbert Cook27 May 1932
RR/46/91Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The relationship between viscosity, elasticity and plastic strength of soft materials as illustrated by some mechanical properties of flour doughs, I' by Robert Kenworthy Schofield and George William Scott Blair25 August 1932
RR/47/103Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The recovery of proportional elasticity in overstrained steel' by S L Smith and J V Howard12 May 1932
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