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Authorised form of nameDawson; Harry Medforth (1875 - 1939)
Dates1875 - 1939
Date of birth11 November 1875
Date of death11/03/1939
ActivityCareer:
Professor of Physical Chemistry in the University of Leeds
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/05/1933
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 139-154, plate, by R Whytlaw Gray and G F Smith
CodeNA1232
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/17/483Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Smithells, [Fellow of the Royal Society], North Grange Road, Headingley, Leeds8 November 1898
RR/60/24Referee's report by Harry Medforth Dawson, on a paper 'Dissociation constants and structures of zwitterions' by Albert NeubergerAugust 1936
RR/63/25Referee's report by Harry Medforth Dawson, on a paper 'The influence of hydrogen and deuterium on the thermal decomposition of diethyl ether in the low pressure region' by J W Mitchell and C N HinshelwoodJuly 1937
RR/52/75Referee's report by Harry Medforth Dawson, on a paper 'The sorption of methyl and ethyl alcohol by silica gels' by Alexander Graham FosterJanuary 1935
RR/65/186Referee's report by Harry Medforth Dawson, on a paper 'The photochemical polymerization of methyl methacrylate vapour' by H W MelvilleApril 1938
RR/63/62Referee's report by Harry Medforth Dawson, on a paper 'The transport numbers of the ions in solutions of silver dodecyl sulphate' by Owen Rhys Howell and Harry WarneFebruary 1937
RR/60/25Second referee's report by Harry Medforth Dawson, on a paper 'Dissociation constants and structures of zwitterions' by Albert NeubergerSeptember 1936
RR/63/26Referee's report by Harry Medforth Dawson, on a paper 'The hydrolysis of the methyl halides' by E A Moelwyn-HughesNovember 1937
EC/1933/04Dawson, Harry Medforth: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/14/93Referee's report by William Augustus Tilden, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity and luminosity of flames containing vaporised salts' by Arthur Smithells, Harry Medforth Dawson and Harold Albert Wilson21 November 1898
RR/14/94Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity and luminosity of flames containing vaporised salts' by Arthur Smithells, Harry Medforth Dawson and Harold Albert Wilson24 November 1898
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