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Authorised form of nameConway; Arthur William (1875 - 1950)
Dates1875 - 1950
Place of birthWexford
Date of birth02 October 1875
Date of death11/07/1950
Research fieldMathematical physics
ActivityEducation:
Dublin; Corpus Christi College, Oxford. MA (Oxon and Roy University Ireland); Hon DSc (Roy University Ireland)
Career:
Professor of Mathematical Physics, University College, Dublin
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/05/1915
RelationshipsSon of Myles Conway
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 329-340, plate, by Edmund T Whittaker
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/32383721
CodeNA1650
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1915/02Conway, Arthur William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/000932Conway, Arthur Williamnd
RR/25/4Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On an expansion of the point- potential' by Arthur William Conway[March 1918]
NLB/58/749Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Conway, FRS14 June 1920
NLB/57/784Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent3 February 1920
RR/69/70Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'Application of quaternions to rotations in hyperbolic space of four dimensions' by Arthur William Conway31 March 1947
RR/55/132Referee's report by Arthur William Conway, on a paper 'Dipole induction and the solvent effect in dipole moment measurements' by Frederick Charles FrankJuly 1935
NLB/69/921Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Conway, FRS17 November 1926
RR/62/88Referee's report by Arthur William Conway, on a paper 'On a system of functional dynamics and optics' by W H Watson[June 1936]
RR/56/97Referee's report by Arthur William Conway, on a paper 'On the spinless rectilinear motion of a uniformly and rigidly electrified sphere—II' by George Adolphus Schott[March 1936]
RR/61/90Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Quaternion treatment of the relativistic wave equation' by Arthur William ConwayJune 1937
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