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Authorised form of name	Brown; Ernest William (1866 - 1938)
Dates	1866 - 1938
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Hull, England
Date of birth	29 November 1866
Place of death	New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Date of death	22 or 24 July 1938
Research field	Celestial mechanics
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	09/06/1898
Royal Society activity	Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1914
Sources	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB Authority: Death date from DSB Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 19-22, plate, by C G Darwin Notes: YB and TR give date of death as 24 July 1938.
Royal Society code	NA1720

Archives associated with this Fellow

Reference number	Title	Date
EC/1898/04	Brown, Ernest William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/000601	Brown, Ernest William	nd
NLB/16/596	Copy letter of a notice from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [The Times]	5 May 1898
NLB/19/224	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Ernest William Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society	13 July 1899
NLB/19/348	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Secretary of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences	19 August 1899
NLB/19/390	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Ernest William Brown, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	9 September 1899
NLB/28/540	Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Ernest William Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society	25 March 1904
NLB/28/599	Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Ernest William Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society	15 April 1904
NLB/32/418	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society	27 February 1906
NLB/36/745	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	10 December 1907
NLB/45/386	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Ernest] W [William] Brown FRS	26 February 1912
NLB/50/808	Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, to Professor Ernest William Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society	5 November 1914
NLB/50/223	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Ernest William] Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society	26 May 1914
NLB/50/360	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Ernest William] Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society, Christ's College, Cambridge	24 June 1914
NLB/51/137	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Ernest William Brown FRS	18 December 1914
NLB/51/256	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Ernest William Brown	25 January 1915
NLB/60/854	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest William] Brown, FRS	15 April 1921
NLB/60/517	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest William] Brown, FRS	17 February 1921
NLB/60/613	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor John Lloyd Newcomb, Chairman of the Centennial Committee; University of Virginia	3 March 1921
IM/000600	Brown, Ernest William	nd
EC/1898/05	Brown, Ernest William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/603/1/136	Letter from Ernest William Brown, 116 Everit Street, Yale University, New Haven, to Joseph Larmor	20 January 1915
MS/603/1/135	Letter from Ernest William Brown, 116 Everit Street, Yale University, New Haven, to Joseph Larmor	19 January 1910

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