Record

Authorised form of nameMacdonald; Hector Munro (1865 - 1935)
Dates1865 - 1935
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEdinburgh, Scotland
Date of birth19 January 1865
Place of deathAberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Date of death16/05/1935
ActivityEducation:
MA
Honours:
OBE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1901
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1916
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 551-558, plate, by E T Whittaker
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/208926407
CodeNA1351
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1901/07Macdonald, Hector Munro: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/002870MacDonald, Hector Munrond
IM/002871MacDonald, Hector Munrond
RR/20/21Referee's report by Hector Munro MacDonald on a paper 'On the diurnal variations of the earth's magnetism produced by the Moon and Sun' by S ChapmanMay 1913
RR/16/61Referee's report by Hector Munro MacDonald, on a paper 'The third elliptic integral' by Alfred George Greenhill8 February 1904
RR/16/38Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'The integrals of the squares of ellipsoidal surface harmonic functions' by George Howard Darwin30 January 1904
RR/17/39Referee's report [page 2] by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'A note on the theory of directive antennæ or unsymmetrical hertzian oscillators' by John Ambrose Fleming30 March 1906
RR/16/95Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'The acoustic shadow of the sphere, with an appendix by Professor A Lodge giving the values of Legendre's Functions from P0 to P20 at intervals of 5 degrees' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh30 January 1904
RR/23/52Referee's report by Hector Munro MacDonald, on a paper 'On waves in an elastic plate' by Horace Lamb5 August 1916
NLB/26/74Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Hector Munro Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society23 January 1903
NLB/28/140Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hector Munro Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society, Clare College, Cambridge15 January 1904
NLB/39/686Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Hector] M [Munro] Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society24 February 1909
NLB/40/797Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons23 August 1909
NLB/41/85Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Ernest William Hobson, Fellow of the Royal SocietyOctober 1909
NLB/43/536Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Hector Munro Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society6 February 1911
NLB/44/71Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Henry] M [Munro] Macdonald FRS1 May 1911
NLB/47/405Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor Hector Macdonald FRS27 January 1913
NLB/48/347Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society20 June 1913
RR/19/82Referee's report by Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich, on a paper 'The effect produced by an obstacle on a train of electric waves' by Hector Munro Macdonald[July 1912]
RR/32/94Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The transmission of electric waves around the Earth's surface' by Hector Munro Macdonald1925
RR/18/99Referee's report by Hector Munro MacDonald, on a paper 'A theory of asymptotic series' by George Neville WatsonFebruary 1911
NLB/53/616Copy letter from [Dr.] Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to [Professor Hector Munro MacDonald, FRS]02 November 1916
RR/19/83Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The effect produced by an obstacle on a train of electric waves' by Hector Munro Macdonald6 August 1912
NLB/58/775Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS18 June 1920
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/22/110Referee's report by Hector Munro MacDonald, on a paper 'On deep-sea water waves caused by a local disturbance on or beneath the surface' by K Terazawa20 July 1915
RR/29/56Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Aberration diffraction effects' by G C StewardMarch 1923
NLB/56/719Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS8 May 1919
NLB/53/582Copy letter from [Dr.] Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to The Deputy Master of the Mint02 November 1916
NLB/61/543Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS22 July 1921
NLB/58/828Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS23 June 1920
NLB/58/582Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS; 52 College Bounds, Aberdeen27 May 1920
RR/39/3Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'On some measurements of the equivalent height of the atmospheric ionised layer' by Edward Victor Appleton[December 1929]
RR/39/83Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The total reflexion of electric waves the interface between two media' by Hector Munro Macdonald[February 1929]
NLB/58/855Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS25 June 1920
RR/34/56Second referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Integrals of the equations of electrodynamics with an application to the electric constants of a transparent medium' by Hector Munro Macdonald[June 1926]
RR/17/417Referee's report by Ernest William Hobson, on a paper 'The diffraction of electric waves round a perfectly reflecting obstacle' by Hector Munro MacdonaldDecember 1909
RR/41/44Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'The electric and magnetic state of the interior of the earth, as inferred from terrestrial magnetic variations' by Sydney Chapman and A T PriceAugust 1930
NLB/64/317Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS13 March 1923
RR/17/213Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'The diurnal variation of terrestrial magnetism' by Arthur Schuster[November 1907]
RR/49/116Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'On the magnetic ionic theory of radio transmission' by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley[March 1933]
NLB/61/478Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS11 July 1921
NLB/61/117Copy letter from an unknown correspondent; to Professor [Hectro Munro] Macdonald, FRS13 May 1921
RR/49/124Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Temperature rise in a heat-evolving medium' by E N Fox[October 1933]
RR/34/57Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'Integrals of the equations of electrodynamics with an application to the electric constants of a transparent medium' by Hector Munro Macdonald[June 1926]
RR/53/106Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Results of calculations of atomic wave functions III—results for Be, Ca and Hg' by Douglas Rayner Hartree and W Hartree[January 1935]
NLB/64/72Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS26 January 1923
NLB/57/32Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; Sir Lazarus Fletcher, FRS4 July 1919
NLB/64/292Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS8 March 1923
RR/47/83Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Ellipsoidal functions and their application to some wave problems' by E T HansonJanuary 1933
NLB/65/239Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS27 September 1923
NLB/64/867Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS5 July 1923
NLB/64/768Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Hector [Munro] Macdonald FRS15 June 1923
NLB/69/741Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Hector Munro] Macdonald, O.B.E, FRS23 September 1926
NLB/72/11Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, OBE, FRS18 January 1929
RR/17/38Referee's report [page 1] by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'A note on the theory of directive antennæ or unsymmetrical hertzian oscillators' by John Ambrose Fleming30 March 1906
NLB/19/582Copy referee remarks on a paper by W Steadman Aldis, 'On the numerical computation of the functions...' [November 1899]
RR/21/121Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The transmission of electric waves around the earth's surface' by Hector Munro Macdonald[January 1914]
RR/48/9Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Results of calculations of atomic wave functions. I.—Survey, and self-consistent fields for Cl- and Cu+' by Douglas Rayner Hartree[May 1933]
RR/45/107Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Bi-harmonic analysis in a perforated strip' by R C J Howland and A C Stevenson5 December 1932
NLB/61/901Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS10 November 1921
RR/21/23Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Note on the motional electromotive force of insulators' by S J Barnett10 March 1914
NLB/58New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration28 February 1920-9 July 1920
NLB/61New Letter Book volume 61, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 April 1921-11 November 1921
RR/34/54Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Integrals of the equations of electrodynamics with an application to the electric constants of a transparent medium' by Hector Munro Macdonald[May 1926]
RR/23/6Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'The scattering of plane electric waves by spheres' by Thomas John I'Anson BromwichMay 1916
RR/21/120Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The transmission of electric waves around the earth's surface' by Hector Munro Macdonald[January 1914]
RR/26/91Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The summation of series' by Hector Munro Macdonald1 November 1921
RR/26/146Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'The diffraction of plane electromagnetic waves by a perfectly reflecting sphere' by F Puryer White and Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich25 July 1921
RR/34/55Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Integrals of the equations of electrodynamics with an application to the electric constants of a transparent medium' by Hector Munro Macdonald[October 1926]
RR/34/58Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'The intensity of the radiation from a source of electric waves when the electric constants of the medium in the neighbourhood of the source are different from the electric constants at a distance from it' by Hector Munro Macdonald[January 1927]
RR/37/98Referee's report by Louis Napoelon George Filon, on a paper 'The reflexion and transmission of electric waves at the interface between two transparent media' by Hector Munro MacDonaldDecember 1928
MC/19/588Letter from [Hector Munro] Macdonald, Clare College, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison19 January 1904
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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