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Authorised form of nameOrr; William McFadden (1866 - 1934)
Dates1866 - 1934
Date of birth02 May 1866
Date of death14/08/1934
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/05/1909
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 559-562, plate, by A W Conway
CodeNA1259
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1909/19Orr, William McFadden: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/19/73Referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'On a form of the solution of Laplace's equation suitable for problems relating to two spheres' by George Barker Jeffery10 May 1912
IM/003389Orr, William McFaddennd
NLB/40/615Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [William McFadden] Orr FRS July 1909
NLB/40/710Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons16 July 1909
RR/19/72Detailed referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'On a form of the solution of Laplace's equation suitable for problems relating to two spheres' by George Barker Jeffery[1912]
NLB/43/537Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William McFadden Orr, Fellow of the Royal Society6 February 1911
NLB/45/821Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to [William McFadden] Orr16 May 1912
NLB/45/230Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] McF [McFadden] Orr FRS23 January 1912
NLB/45/683Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Prof W [William] McF [McFadden], Orr FRS22 April 1912
NLB/47/507Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W McFadden Orr FRS11 February 1913
NLB/51/138Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor William McFadden Orr FRS28 December1914
RR/17/404Referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'On the flow of water through pipes and passages having converging or diverging boundaries' by A H Gibson13 January 1910
NLB/61/372Copy letter from an unknown correspondent; to Professor [William McFadden] Orr, FRS24 June 1921
NLB/55/574Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor William McFadden] Orr, FRS14 June 1918
NLB/67/897Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] McFadden Orr, FRS2 April 1925
NLB/72/505Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] McFadden Orr, FRS19 November 1929
RR/19/62Referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'The motion of viscous liquid due to uniform and periodic motion maintained over a segment of an infinite plane boundary' by W J Harrison8 November 1912
RR/19/74Referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'On the scattering and absorption of light in gaseous media, with applications to the intensity of sky radiation' by Louis Vessot King16 June 1912
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