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Authorised form of nameFermor; Sir; Lewis Leigh (1880 - 1954)
Dates1880 - 1954
Date of birth18 September 1880
Date of death24/05/1954
ActivityEducation:
DSc (Lond)
Career:
Director, Geological Survey of India; ex-President of the Mining and Geological Institute of India
Honours:
OBE 1919; Kt 1935
Memberships:
FGS; MInstMM; Fellow of Asiatic Society of Bengal
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/05/1934
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1956 vol 2 pp 101-113, plate, by H Crookshank and J B Auden
References:
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64
CodeNA1769
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1934/03Fermor, Sir Lewis Leigh: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/605Fermor, Sir Lewis Leigh1946
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