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Authorised form of nameFearnsides; William George (1879 - 1968)
Dates1879 - 1968
Date of birth10 November 1879
Date of death15/05/1968
ActivityEducation:
MA
Career:
Sorby Professor of Geology and Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Sheffield; ex-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Memberships:
FGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1932
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1969 vol 15 pp 83-98, plate, by O M B Bulman
CodeNA1841
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1932/04Fearnsides, William George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/49/62Referee's report by William George Fearnsides, on a paper 'The Cambrian area of Rushton (Shropshire)' by Edgar Sterling Cobbold and Roy Woodehouse Pocock26 July 1933
MDA/C/6/4Papers relating to an award from the Darwin Research Fund to Sir Arthur Hill, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew1939-1940
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