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Authorised form of nameTrouton; Frederick Thomas (1863 - 1922)
Dates1863 - 1922
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of birth24 November 1863
Place of deathThe Rookery, Downe, Kent
Date of death21/09/1922
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Dublin. MA; ScD
Career:
Assistant to George Francis Fitzgerald (FRS 1883); Lecturer in Experimental Physics, Trinity College, Dublin (1901-1902); Quain Professor of Physics, University College, London (1902-1914); died of a lingering disease (contracted in 1912)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1897
RelationshipsYoungest son of Thomas Trouton; married Annie, daughter of George Fowler, of Liverpool
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1926 vol 110 pp iv-ix, plate, signed by A W P
Notes:
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/54930803
Royal Society codeNA1534
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
IM/Maull/004658Trouton, Frederick Thomasnd
MS/525/6/10/23Letter from Frederick Thomas Trouton, Melbreck, Tilford, near Farnham, to [Charles Vernon] Boys 14 October 1915
MS/525/6/10/22Letter from Frederick Thomas Trouton, Melbreck, Tilford, near Farnham, to [Charles Vernon] Boys 12 October 1915
NLB/12/302Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society27 January 1896
RR/17/70Referee's report by Frederick Thomas Trouton, on a paper 'On the hygroscopic action of cotton' by David Orme Masson and E S Richards[August 1906]
RR/16/120Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on a paper 'The forces acting on a charged condensor moving through space' by Frederick Thomas Trouton and H R NobleJuly 1903
RR/16/119Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The forces acting on a charged condensor moving through space' by Frederick Thomas Trouton and H R Noble16 June 1903
RR/16/395Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The vapour pressure in equilibirum with substances holding varying amounts of moisture' by Frederick Thomas Trouton and B PoolJanuary 1906
RR/16/213Referee's report by Frederick Thomas Trouton, 'On the wetting of cotton by water and by water vapour' by Watson Orme Masson23 May 1904
RR/16/394Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The vapour pressure in equilibrium with substances holding varying amounts of moisture' by Professor Frederick Thomas Trouton and Miss B PoolJanuary 1906
NLB/23/2/374Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society, and H R Noble14 July 1903
NLB/24/64Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Frederick Thomas Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society24 February 1902
NLB/27/113Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Frederick Thomas Trouton, [Fellow of the Royal Society]2 July 1903
NLB/40/353Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons24 May 1909
MC/19/810Letter from [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, Physical Department, University College, London, to [Joseph] Larmor17 October 1904
NLB/32/299Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Frederick Thomas Trouton, [Fellow of the Royal Society]15 February 1906
NLB/35/392Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President, Royal Society29 May 1907
NLB/34/561Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to P J Everitt, c/o Professor [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Physical Laboratory, University College, Gower Street7 February 1907
NLB/38/728Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Frederick Thomas Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society28 October 1908
NLB/37/251Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Frederick] T [Thomas] Trouton FRS21 February 1908
NLB/37/537Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to F [Frederick] T [Thomas] Trouton3 April 1908
NLB/37/532Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Professor F [Frederick] T [Thomas] Trouton3 April 1908
NLB/38/202Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Frederick Thomas Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society25 June 1908
NLB/37/570Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Frederick] T [Thomas] Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society7 April 1908
NLB/41/684Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Frederick Thomas Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society3 February 1910
NLB/37/744Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society7 May 1908
NLB/38/485Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Frederick Thomas Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society10 August 1908
NLB/38/576Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Frederick Thomas Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society29 September 1908
NLB/41/267Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Frederick Thomas Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society10 November 1909
NLB/44/405Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society6 July 1911
NLB/44/458Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Frederick] T [Thomas] Trouton FRS13 July 1911
MC/21/626Letter from [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, Physical Department, University College, London, to the Royal Society9 March 1906
NLB/54/871Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, FRS25 October 1917
RR/17/269Referee's report by Frederick Thomas Trouton, on a paper 'The viscosity of ice' by R M Deeley26 June 1908
NLB/58/524Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]17 April 1920
RR/13/142Referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the laws of attrition' by Frederick Thomas Trouton11 October 1895
NLB/59/114Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, FRS17 July 1920
RR/17/259Referee's report by Frederick Thomas Trouton, on a paper 'The refractive index and dispersion of light in argon and helium' by W BurtonFebruary 1908
RR/13/141Referee's report by Osborne Reynolds, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the laws of attrition' by Frederick Thomas Trouton11 July 1895
RR/17/231Referee's report by Frederick Thomas Trouton, on a paper 'On the absorption of water by cotton and wool' by Morris William Travers[February 1907]
RR/15/134Referee's report by Frederick Thomas Trouton, on a paper 'The ionisation of dilute solution at the freezing point' by William Cecil Dampier WhethamMarch 1900
NLB/63/482Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John] Joly, FRS27 October 1922
NLB/68/287Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Alfred William] Porter, FRS12 June 1925
NLB/67/119Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Alfred] Porter, FRS28 October 1924
NLB/71/18Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to0 Mr. J. H. Hogan,. Hailsham, Sussex5 December 1927
NLB/44/414Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Professor F [Frederick] T [Thomas] Trouton FRS7 July 1911
EC/1897/24Trouton, Frederick Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MDA/C/12/2/14Letter from Frederick Thomas Trouton, Physical Department, University College, London, to the Assistant Secretary, the Royal Society6 December 1904
MDA/C/12/2/15Circular letter from Frederick Thomas Trouton, Physical Department, University College, London, to members of the Physical and Chemical Commitee of the Royal SocietyDecember 1904
RR/17/315Referee's report by Frederick Thomas Trouton, on a paper 'The mechanism of the adsorption of hydrogen by carbon' by James William McBain29 September 1908
PP/22/3Paper, 'On the motion under gravity of fluid bubbles through vertical columns of liquid of a different density' by Frederick Thomas Trouton1893
MC/16/237Letter from John Joly, Trinity College, Dublin, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]4 July 1895
NLB/38/542Copy letter from Joseph Larmor and Sir Archibald Geikie, to Henry Frederick Baker, Fellow of the Royal Society, and others16 September 1908
MC/23/469Letter from [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, Physical Department, University College, London, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]12 December 1908
NLB/39/210Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Frederick] T [Trouton] Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society11 December 1908
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/21/625Letter from [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, Physical Department, University College, London, to [Joseph] Larmor4 March 1906
MC/22/472Letter from [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, Physical Department, University College, London, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison17 May 1907
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