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Authorised form of namePickard; Sir; Robert Howson (1874 - 1949)
Dates1874 - 1949
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBalsall Heath, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Date of birth27 September 1874
Place of deathHeadley, Surrey
Date of death18/10/1949
ActivityEducation:
DSc (Lond); PhD (Munich); BSc (Birm)
Honours:
Kt 1937
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/05/1917
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 253-263, plate, by J Kenyon
CodeNA1171
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1917/10Pickard, Sir Robert Howson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/52/400Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Percy Faraday Frankland, FRS29 November 1915
RR/44/57Referee's report by Robert Howson Pickard, on a paper 'Absorption spectra of the alkyl halides: energies of the C-I and C-Br bonds' by T Iredale and A G MillsJuly 1931
RR/44/80Referee's report by Robert Howson Pickard, on a paper 'The micelle structure of the wool fibre' by J B SpeakmanMarch 1931
NLB/57/702Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent20 January 1920
RR/52/24Referee's report by Robert Howson Pickard, on a paper 'X-ray studies of the structure of hair, wool, and related fibres - III—The configuration of the keratin molecule and its orientation in the biological cell' by William Thomas Astbury and Wayne A SissonMarch 1935
RR/38/140Referee's report by Robert Howson Pickard, on a paper 'The plasticity of wool ' by J B SpeakmanJune 1928
NLB/66/776Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Robert Howson] Pickard, FRS7 July 1924
NLB/71/125Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Robert Howson] Pickard, FRS14 January 1928
NLB/66/407Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Robert Howson] Pickhard, FRS3 May 1924
NLB/66/600Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; Sir John Rose Bradford, K.C.M.G FRS4 June 1924
RR/33/124Referee's report by Robert Howson Pickard, on a paper 'Critical potentials of hydrogen in the presence of catalytic nickel and copper' by J Hulton WolfendenDecember 1925
NLB/70/877Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy FRS; Professor [Archibald Vivian] Hill; Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer; Dr [] Pickard; Sir [] Edgeworth David; Professor [Robert Howson] Forsyth; Professor [Horace] Lamb; Sir James Walker27 October 1927
RR/43/95Referee's report by Robert Howson Pickard, on a paper 'Refractive dispersion of organic compounds. Part I.—Experimental methods. Part II.— cyclohexane. Part III— benzene' by Thomas Martin Lowry and C B AllsoppJune 1931
RR/43/97Referee's report by Robert Howson Pickard, on a paper 'Studies of co-ordination.—Part II. absorption spectra of metallic derivatives of benzoylcamphor' by Thomas Martin Lowry, Henry Burgess, Ivor John Faulkner and Ralph C TraillApril 1931
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