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Authorised form of nameGraaff-Hunter; James de (1881 - 1967)
Other forms of nameJames de Graaff
James
Other forms of surnameHunter
De Graaff-Hunter
Dates1881 - 1967
Date of birth11 September 1881
Date of death03 February 196
Research fieldGeodesy
ActivityEducation:
MA; ScD
Career:
Director of the Geodetic Branch of the Survey of India
Honours:
CIE 1933
Memberships:
FInstPh
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/05/1935
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1967 vol 13 pp 79-88, plate, by G Bomford
Royal Society codeNA1827
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1935/12Graaff-Hunter, James de: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/002316Graaff Hunter, James dend
RR/17/300Referee's report by William Mitchenson Hicks, on a paper 'An apparatus for measurements of the defining power of objectives' by James de Graaff-HunterOctober 1908
RR/53/134Referee's report by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough, on a paper 'The figure of the earth from gravity observations and the precision obtainable' by James de Graaff-Hunter1 November 1934
RR/54/2Referee's report by James de Graaff-Hunter, on a paper 'Travel times in seismology' by Harold Jeffreys17 July 1935
RR/65/106Referee's report by Charles Frederick Arden-Close, on a paper 'Some experimental observations for longitude made by theodolite fitted with a shutter eyepiece' by James De Graaff-Hunter9 March 1938
RR/53/135Second referee's report by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough, on a paper 'The figure of the earth from gravity observations and the precision obtainable' by James de Graaff-Hunter28 November 1934
RR/53/136Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The figure of the earth from gravity observations and the precision obtainable' by James de Graaff-Hunter[January 1935]
RR/56/78Referee's report by James de Graaff-Hunter, on a paper 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians' by Joseph Proudman and Arthur Thomas Doodson19 October 1935
RR/73/217Referee's report by Edward Crisp Bullard, on a paper 'The geodetic uses of gravity measurements and appropriate reduction' by James de Graff Hunter28 September 1950
RR/73/220Referee's report by Robert Stoneley, on a paper 'The geodetic uses of gravity measurements and appropriate reduction' by James de Graff Hunter8 January 1951
RR/73/218Letter from Robert Stoneley, on a paper 'The geodetic uses of gravity measurements and appropriate reduction' by James de Graff Hunter, to David [Brunt, Secretary of the Royal Society]8 January 1951
RR/73/219Letter from Robert Stoneley, on a paper 'The geodetic uses of gravity measurements and appropriate reduction' by James de Graff Hunter, to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society8 January 1951
MC/34/106Letter from [James] de Graaff-Hunter, Pembroke College, Cambridge, to [William Bate] Hardy, [Secretary] to the Royal Society, Caius College6 November 1919
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