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Authorised form of nameBacklund; Jons Oskar (1846 - 1916)
Other forms of nameJohann Oscar
Dates1846 - 1916
Place of birthLanghem, Sweden
Date of birth28 April 1846
Place of deathPulkovo, Russia
Date of death29/08/1916
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election09/11/1911
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1917-1918 vol 94 pp xx-xxiv signed by H H T
CodeNA169
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1911/19Backlund, Jons Oskar: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/46/89Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oskar Backlund, Foreign Member of the Royal Society7 June 1912
NLB/47/655Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr [Jons] O [Oskar] Backlund For.Mem.RS, Academie Imperiale des Sciences, St Petersburg10 March 1913
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