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Authorised form of nameDoodson; Arthur Thomas (1890 - 1968)
Dates1890 - 1968
Date of birth31 March 1890
Date of death10/01/1968
ActivityCareer:
Associate Director of Liverpool Observatory and Tidal Institute
Honours:
CBE 1956
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/05/1933
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1968 vol 14 pp 189-205, plate, by J Proudman
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/197076371
CodeNA1165
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/005694Doodson, Arthur Thomas14 October 1960
IM/GA/WS/2194Doodson, Arthur Thomas1946
IM/005265Doodson, Arthur Thomas1995
RR/23/75Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Numerical results of the theory of the diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting sphere' by Joseph Proudman, Arthur Thomas Doodson and G KennedyMay 1916
RR/26/33Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The harmonic development of the tide-generating potential' by Arthur Thomas Doodson[June 1921]
RR/35/63Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The analysis of tidal observations' by Arthur Thomas DoodsonDecember 1927
RR/43/16Referee's report by George Clarke Simpson, on a paper 'The principal constituent of the tides in the English and Irish channels' by Arthur Thomas Doodson and R H Corkan1931
RR/51/135Referee's report by Arthur Thomas Doodson, on a paper 'On the independence of sums of squares in the analysis of variance' by S S Wilks[December 1933]
RR/37/61Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The analysis and prediction of tidal currents from observations of times of slack water' by Arthur Thomas DoodsonJuly 1928
NLB/66/689Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Sydney] Chapman, FRS19 June 1924
RR/31/39Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The principal constituent of the tides of the North Sea' by Joseph Proudman and Arthur Thomas Doodson[February 1924]
NLB/66/35Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Sydney] Chapman, FRS12 February 1924
IM/005264Proudman, Joseph and Dodson, Arthur Thomas1995
EC/1933/05Doodson, Arthur Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/70/17Referee's report by Arthur Thomas Doodson, on a paper 'The generation and propagation of ocean waves and swell. I. Wave periods and velocities' by N F Barber and F Ursell1947
RR/61/113Referee's report by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough, on a paper 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians III. Ocean bounded by complete meridian semidiurnal tides' by Arthur Thomas DoodsonDecember 1937
NLB/66/669Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Sydney] Chapman17 June 1924
AP/81/3/3Unpublished letter, regarding 'The measurement of tides by means of the Favé pressure gauge' from Joseph Proudman to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society12 December 1939
RR/31/40Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The principal constituent of the tides of the North Sea' by Joseph Proudman and Arthur Thomas Doodson28 January 1924
AP/81/3/2Unpublished diagrams, experimental apparatus and results by J [Joseph] Proudman, A T [Arthur Thomas] Doodson and R H Corkan1939
AP/81/4Unpublished paper, 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians' by A T [Arthur Thomas] Doodson1939
AP/81/3/1Unpublished manuscript, 'The measurement of tides by means of the Favé pressure gauge' by J [Joseph] Proudman, A T [Arthur Thomas] Doodson and R H Corkan1939
AP/81/3Unpublished paper, 'The measurement of tides by means of the Favé pressure gauge' by J [Joseph] Proudman, A T [Arthur Thomas] Doodson and R H Corkan1939
RR/66/72Referee's report by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough, on a paper 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians IV. Series solutions in terms of angular width of ocean: semidiurnal tides in narrow oceans V. Solutions by use of finite differences: semidiurnal tides' by Arthur Thomas Doodson[1939]
RR/23/76Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'Numerical results of the theory of the diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting sphere' by Joseph Proudman, Arthur Thomas Doodson and G Kennedy25 May 1916
RR/23/77Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Numerical results of the theory of the diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting sphere' by Joseph Proudman, Arthur Thomas Doodson and G KennedyJuly 1916
RR/35/62Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The analysis of tidal observations' by Arthur Thomas DoodsonJanuary 1928
RR/56/78Referee's report by James de Graaff-Hunter, on a paper 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians' by Joseph Proudman and Arthur Thomas Doodson19 October 1935
RR/56/79Referee's report by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough, on a paper 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians' by Joseph Proudman and Arthur Thomas Doodson[November 1935]
RR/61/114Referee's report by Robert Stoneley, on a paper 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians III. Ocean bounded by complete meridian semidiurnal tides' by Arthur Thomas DoodsonFebruary 1938
RR/66/71Referee's report by Robert Stoneley, on a paper 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians IV. Series solutions in terms of angular width of ocean: semidiurnal tides in narrow oceans V. Solutions by use of finite differences: semidiurnal tides' by Arthur Thomas Doodson[July 1939]
RR/66/73Letter from Arthur Thomas Doodson, regarding a paper 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians IV. Series solutions in terms of angular width of ocean: semidiurnal tides in narrow oceans V. Solutions by use of finite differences: semidiurnal tides' by Arthur Thomas Doodson7 October 1939
RR/73/81Referee's report by Arthur Thomas Doodson, on a paper 'Surf beats: sea waves of one to five minutes period' by M J Tucker13 April 1950
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