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Authorised form of namePlaskett; John Stanley (1865 - 1941)
Dates1865 - 1941
NationalityCanadian
Place of birthHickson, near Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
Date of birth17 November 1865
Place of deathEsquimalt, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Date of death17/10/1941
Research fieldAstronomy
ActivityEducation:
BA (Toronto); DSc (Pittsburgh)
Career:
Astronomer, Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, 1905-1917
Honours:
CBE 1935
Memberships:
FRAS; FRS (Canada)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/05/1923
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 67-82, plate, by H Spencer Jones
Royal Society codeNA1448
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
NLB/65/116Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [John Stanley] Plaskett, FRS2 August 1923
NLB/64/905Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [John Stanley] Plaskett, FRS7 July 1923
NLB/66/332Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Sydney] Chapman, FRS10 April 1924
NLB/67/814Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [John Stanley] Plaskett, FRS13 March 1925
EC/1923/13Plaskett, John Stanley: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/37/107Letter from [John Stanley] Plaskett, Department of the Interior Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B.C., to [Francis Alexander] Towle, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, London, England17 July 1923
MC/39Volume 39 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1925
MC/39/86Letter from [John Stanley] Plaskett, Director of the Department of Interior, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, England21 February 1925
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