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Authorised form of nameMasson; Sir; James Irvine Orme (1887 - 1962)
Dates1887 - 1962
Date of birth03 September 1887
Date of death22/10/1962
ActivityEducation:
DSc; FIC
Career:
Fellow of University College, London. Professor of Chemistry and Head of Department of Science, University of Durham (Durham Division)
Honours:
MBE 1918; Kt 1950
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1939
RelationshipsSon of Sir David Orme Masson (FRS 1903); brother-in-law and cousin of John Masson Gulland (FRS 1945)
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1963 vol 9 pp 205-221, plate, by R D Haworth and A H Lamberton
CodeNA1433
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1939/12Masson, Sir James Irvine Orme: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/3960Masson, Sir James Ormend
IM/GA/Russell/18951Masson, Sir James Orme1939
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