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Authorised form of namePoincare; Jules Henri (1854 - 1912)
Dates1854 - 1912
NationalityFrench
Place of birthNancy, France
Date of birth29 April 1854
Place of deathParis, France
Date of death17/07/1912
Research fieldMathematics
Mathematical physics
Celestial mechanics
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election26/04/1894
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Sylvester Medal 1901
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1914-1915 vol 91 pp vi-xvi signed by H F B
References:
Alex D D Craik, 'James Ivory's last papers on the 'Figure of the Earth' (with biographical additions) in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 187-204
CodeNA1719
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1894/02Poincare, Jules Henri: certificate of election to the Royal Society
M/189Poincare, Henri
NLB/9/387Copy letter from Theodore E James to Messrs Harrison & Sons11 May 1894
RR/15/238Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Sur la stabilite de l'equilibre des figures pyriformes affectees par une masse fluide en rotation' by Jules Henri PoincareNovember 1901
NLB/23/2/215Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Jules Henri Poincare, Foreign Member of the Royal Society24 June 1902
NLB/23/2/145Copy letter from Alfred Bray Kempe, to Professor [Jules] Henri Poincare4 December 1901
NLB/23/2/132Copy letter from unknown correspondent, to Professeur [Jules] Henri Poincare, Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyNovember 1901
NLB/23/1/509Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jules Henri Poincare, Foreign Member, Royal Society, 63 Rue Claude Bernard, Paris23 November 1901
NLB/25/761Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Monsieur Jules Henry Poincare, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Paris19 December 1902
NLB/25/783Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Jules Henri Poincare, [Foreign Member, Royal Society]1 January 1903
RR/15/239Referee's report by Ernest William Hobson, on a paper 'Sur la stabilite de l'equilibre des figures pyriformes affectees par une masse fluide en rotation' by Jules Henri PoincareNovember 1901
NLB/17/407Copy letter from [Michael Foster], to Monsieur le Professeur Jules Henri Poincare, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris25 October 1898
NLB/18/150Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Poincare24 January 1899
PP/18/9Paper, 'On instability of periodic motion' by William Thomson1891
MC/16/124Letter from Jules Henri Poincare, Lozère, to the President of the Royal Society28 May 1894
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
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