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Authorised form of nameAllen; Herbert Stanley (1873 - 1954)
Dates1873 - 1954
Date of birth29 December 1873
Date of death27/04/1954
ActivityEducation:
Kingswood School, Bath. MA; DSc
Career:
Professor of Natural Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of St Andrews
Memberships:
FRSE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/05/1930
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1955 vol 1 pp 5-10, plate, by Wm Wilson
CodeNA1763
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1930/01Allen, Herbert Stanley: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/4706Allen, Herbert Stanleynd
RR/24/4Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'Electronic frequency and atomic number' by Herbert Stanley Allennd [1917]
RR/24/2Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'Characteristic frequency and atomic number' by Herbert Stanley Allen[June 1917]
NLB/54/533Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS11 June 1917
NLB/54/756Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS12 September 1917
RR/48/106Referee's report by Herbert Stanley Allen, on a paper 'X-ray absorption coefficients in the range 0·3 to 2·0 Å' by Leslie Harold Martin and K C Lang[March 1932]
NLB/54/532Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS11 June 1917
RR/54/142Referee's report by Herbert Stanley Allen, on a paper 'The excitation potential of the nitrogen second positive bands' by N Thompson and S E WilliamsAugust 1934
RR/30/1Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'The band spectrum of hydrogen' by Herbert Stanley Allen[May 1924]
RR/24/3Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'Characteristic frequency and atomic number' by Herbert Stanley Allennd [1917]
RR/57/70Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'On certain fundamental frequencies and energy constants' by Herbert Stanley Allen[May 1936]
RR/57/71Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'On certain fundamental frequencies and energy constants' by Herbert Stanley Allen26 May 1936
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