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Authorised form of nameSmith; Thomas (1883 - 1969)
Dates1883 - 1969
Date of birth06 April 1883
Date of death28/11/1969
ActivityCareer:
Head of Optics Section, National Physical Laboratory; ex-President of the Optical Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1932
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1971 vol 17 pp 681-687, plate, by K J Habell
CodeNA1858
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RR/47/118Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'Studies in refractive index I and II' by A M Taylor and A M GloverAugust 1932
RR/55/56Referee's report by Thomas Smith 'Heterochromatic photometry of the ultra-violet region' by Edmund John BowenDecember 1935
RR/58/28Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The current factor in the Kerr electro-optical effect' by H T JessopJune 1936
RR/52/111Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'Intensity measurements in a fine structure multiplet of As II' by Samuel Tolansky and J F HeardMay 1934
RR/55/42Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The interferometric examination of Rowland ghosts' by F F P Bisacre and F SimeonSeptember 1936
RR/63/12Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'Further observations on the limits of resolution and visibility of the microscope' by K B Merling-EisenbergFebruary 1937
RR/61/107Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on the photochemical bleaching of visual purple solutions' by H J A Dartnall, C F Goodeve and R J LythgoeJune 1937
RR/65/280Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'An interferometric wave-length comparison of the red cadmium radiation emitted by different sources' by W Ewart Williams and D V GogateJune 1938
RR/63/44Second referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The penetration into the sea of light of various wave-lengths as measured by emission or rectifier photo-electric cells' by Horace H Poole and William Ringrose Gelston AtkinsMarch 1937
RR/65/15Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'Photo-electric measurements of the seasonal variations in daylight around 0.41, from 1930 to 1937' by W R G AtkinsFebruary 1938
RR/65/260Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'New systems of normal co-ordinates for relativistic optics' by G TempleJuly 1938
RR/67/81Letter from Thomas Smith, on a paper 'Photochemical laws and visual phenomena' by B H Crawford to Archibald Vivian Hill5 August 1940
RR/67/84Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'Photochemical laws and visual phenomena' by B H Crawford to Thomas Smith14 August 1940
RR/70/158Letter from Thomas Smith, on a paper 'On the interpretation of the Foucault test' by E H Linfoot to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society8 January 1948
RR/68/436Referee's report by Arthur Mannering Tyndall, on a paper 'Systematic constructional tables for thin cemented aplanatic lenses' by Edna D Brown and Thomas Smith[1944]
RR/68/262Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The spectral sensitivity of the fovea and extrafovea in the Purkinje range' by H V Walters and W D Wright[1942]
RR/70/159Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'On the interpretation of the Foucault test' by E H Linfoot1947
RR/71/113Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'Microscopy by reconstructed wave-fronts' by Dennis Gabor[1948]
RR/67/93Letter from Thomas Smith, on a paper 'Photochemical laws and visual phenomena' by B H Crawford to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society22 May 1945
NLB/66/625Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Hon. Secretary, Physical Society, London5 June 1924
IM/GA/WS/3367Smith, Thomasnd
RR/49/98Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'On particle size and concentration in opal glasses I' by C Dunbar[June 1933]
RR/55/16Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The photo-electric measurement of the diurnal and seasonal variations in daylight and a globe intergrating photometer' by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins and H H PooleJuly 1935
RR/49/96Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'On particle size and concentration in opal glasses II' by C Dunbar[June 1933]
EC/1932/14Smith, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/62/22Referee's report by Thomas Smith and Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The micrography of metals in ultra-violet light' by J Smiles and H Wrighton[October 1936]
RR/55/43Second referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The interferometric examination of Rowland ghosts' by F F P Bisacre and F SimeonDecember 1935
RR/57/83Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'Photoelectric measurements of the luminous efficiency of daylight' by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins and H H Poole[April and May 1936]
RR/44/23Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The photo-electric measurement of the penetration of light of various wave-lengths into the sea and the physiological bearing of the results' by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins and H H PooleAugust 1932
RR/65/104Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The spectral variation of the photosensitivity of visual purple' by Charles Frederick Goodeve, E E Schneider and Richard James LythgoeNovember 1938
RR/55/98Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The optical system of the disappearing filament pyrometer' by F A CunnoldMarch 1935
RR/55/17Second referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The photo-electric measurement of the diurnal and seasonal variations in daylight and a globe intergrating photometer' by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins and H H PooleOctober 1935
RR/56/8Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'On crystal and slit systems for X-ray monochromatization and spectroscopy' by G I Harper[October 1934]
RR/56/9Second referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'On crystal and slit systems for X-ray monochromatization and spectroscopy' by G I Harper[May 1935]
RR/57/40Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'On experimental and theoretical problems of photography I and II' by J E P Wagstaff and W A Prowse21 March 1935
RR/59/100Second referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'Relative luminosity in the extreme red' by Charles Frederick Goodeve[April 1936]
RR/59/102Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'Relative luminosity in the extreme red' by Charles Frederick Goodeve[March 1936]
RR/63/43Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'The penetration into the sea of light of various wave-lengths as measured by emission or rectifier photo-electric cells' by Horace H Poole and William Ringrose Gelston AtkinsFebruary 1937
RR/69/209Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'A contribution to the theory of the Foucault test' by E H Linfoot1945
RR/73/140Referee's report by Thomas Smith, on a paper 'An interferometer microscope' by James Dyson1950
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