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Authorised form of nameMoissan; Henri (1852 - 1907)
Other forms of nameFerdinand-Frederic-Henri
Dates1852 - 1907
NationalityFrench
Place of birthParis, France
Date of birth28 September 1852
Place of deathParis, France
Date of death20/02/1907
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1906
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election11/05/1905
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1896
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Authority:
Altname from DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1907-1908 vol 80 pp xxx-xxxvii signed by W R
CodeNA1662
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1905/19Moissan, Henri: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/9/134Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, Fellow of the Royal Society4 April 1894
NLB/13/89Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Monsieur le Professeur Henri Moissan, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 June 1896
NLB/13/308Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Crookes, Fellow of the Royal Society23 July 1896
NLB/13/696Copy letter from Edward Frankland, to Professor Henri Moissan5 November 1896
NLB/13/691Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Horace Alfred Damer Seymour, Royal Mint5 November 1896
NLB/16/770Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor H Moissan3 June 1898
NLB/30/753Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Hugo de Vries, Amsterdam, and Henri Moissan, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Ludimar Hermann, [Foreign Members, Royal Society]18 May 1905
NLB/31/506Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Henri Moissan, [Fellow of the Royal Society]2 October 1905
NLB/32/698Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor Henri Moissan, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Faculte des Sciences a la Sorbonne, Paris [France]2 May 1906
MS/373/1/12Letter from Henri Moissan, Laboratoire de Toxicologie, Ecole Superieure de Pharmacie, Avenue de l'Observatoire 4, Paris, to [Thomas Edward Thorpe]24 June 1889
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/20/193Letter from Henri Moissan, Universite de Paris, La Sorbonne, to the Secretary of the Royal Society29 March 1905
MC/20/194Letter from Henri Moissan, Universite de Paris, La Sorbonne, to the Royal Society20 May 1905
MC/20/195Letter from Henri Moissan, Universite de Paris, La Sorbonne, to the President of the Royal Society22 June 1905
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