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Authorised form of nameWilson; William (1875 - 1965)
Dates1875 - 1965
Date of birth01 March 1875
Date of death14/10/1965
ActivityEducation:
PhD (Leip), DSc (Lond)
Career:
Professor of Physics in the University of London; Head of Physics Department at Bedford College
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/05/1923
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1967 vol 13 pp 387-391, plate, by G Temple and H T Flint
CodeNA1832
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1923/15Wilson, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/2310Wilson, William1946
IM/GA/WS/1744Wilson, Williamnd
NLB/56/478Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to to [William] Wilson Esquire, FRS; 43 Fellows Road, N.W.19 February 1919
NLB/56/474Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Wilson Esquire, FRS; 43 Fellows Road, N.W.18 February 1919
RR/52/132Referee's report by William Wilson, on a paper 'The x and b rays of radioactinium' by Harold Albert WilsonNovember 1934
RR/18/101Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The decrease of velocity of the ß-particles on passing through matter' by William WilsonMay 1910
RR/67/24Referee's report by William Wilson, on two papers 'General classical theory of spinning particles in a Maxwell field' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha and H C Corben and 'Classical theory of spinning particles in a meson field' by Homi Jehangir BhabhaJanuary 1941
RR/63/54Referee's report by William Wilson, on a paper 'On the neutrino theory of light' by M H L PryceJanuary 1938
RR/66/229Referee's report by William Wilson, on a paper 'A theory of electric polarization, electro-optical Kerr effect and electric saturation in liquids and solutions' by A Piekara[April 1939]
RR/70/239Letter from William Wilson, on a paper 'On the radiation emitted by a fast charged particle in the magnetic field' by H Y Tzu to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society11 June 1947
RR/70/238Referee's report by William Wilson, on a paper 'On the radiation emitted by a fast charged particle in the magnetic field' by H Y Tzu8 May 1947
RR/68/65Referee's report by William Wilson, on a paper 'On the dielectric strength of mixed crystals' by Herbert Fröhlich[1941]
RR/31/27Referee's report by William Wilson, on a paper 'Half-integral quantum numbers in the theory of the stark effect and a general hypothesis of fractional quantum numbers' by [Ali Moustafa] Mosharrafa[March 1924]
NLB/71/238Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [William] Wilson, FRS22 February 1928
RR/28/40Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'The quantum theory and electromagnetic phenomena' by William Wilson[October 1922]
RR/30/77Referee's report by William Wilson, on a paper 'A general vector analysis, with applications to electrodynamical theory' by H T Flint[February 1924]
RR/67/353Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to members of the Sectional Committee for Physics27 December 1940
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