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Authorised form of nameVolterra; Sir; Vito (1860 - 1940)
Dates1860 - 1940
Place of birthAncona, Italy
Date of birth03 May 1860
Place of deathRome, Italy
Date of death11/10/1940
Research fieldMathematics
Natural philosophy
ActivityHonours:
KBE 1921
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election30/06/1910
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 691-729, plate, by E T Whittaker
CodeNA1660
Archives associated with this Fellow
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M/232Volterra, Sir Vito
EC/1910/19Volterra, Sir Vito: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/22/49Letter from Vito Volterra, Rome, to Sir George Darwin4 April 1903
MM/22/48Letter from Vito Volterra, Via in Lucina 17, Rome, to Sir George Darwin 17 February 1903
MDA/A/22/10Copy letter from [Ronald Winckworth] Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Vito Volterra15 May 1934
MDA/A/22/12Letter from Vito Volterra to [Ronald Winckworth] Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society, Ariccia, Rome19 May 1934
NLB/52/755Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Sons23 February 1916
NLB/57/326Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Royal Academy of the Lincei16 October 1919
NLB/66/161Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Rector, Regia University, Naples [Italy]6 March 1924
NLB/57/220Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ray Lankester, FRS, KCB; 44 Oakley Street, Chelsea, SW 35 September 1919
NLB/66/117Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vito] Volterra, Foreign Member of the Royal Society25 February 1924
NLB/66/810Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Vito] Volterra, Foreign Member of the Royal Society15 July 1924
NLB/68/83Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vito] Volterra, ForMemRS8 May 1925
NLB/68/77Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Comistato Celebrazione Centenaria; R. Universita, Pavia, Italy8 May 1925
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
NLB/42/649Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to "Nature"July 1910
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