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Authorised form of nameWallis; Sir; Barnes Neville (1887 - 1979)
Dates1887 - 1979
NationalityBritish
Place of birthRipley, Derbyshire, England
Date of birth26 September 1887
Place of deathLeatherhead Hospital, Surrey
Date of death30/10/1979
ActivityEducation:
Haberdashers' Aske's, Christs Hospital
Career:
Thames Engineering Works; John Samuel White's Shipyard, Cowes; Royal Naval Air Service - allocated to Vickers
Honours:
CBE 1943; Kt 1968
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election22/03/1945
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1975
RelationshipsMarried (1925) Molly Wallis; 2 sons, 2 daughters.
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1981 vol 27 pp 603-627, plate, by Sir Alfred Pugsley and N E Rowe
References:
Morris, R. (2023) 'Dam buster: Barnes Wallis: an engineer's life' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
CodeNA1893
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1945/20Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PB/1/33/3/8Companion of Honour1965
IM/GA/AR/6751Wallis, Sir Barnes Nevillend
PB/8/28/3/2Correspondence with colleagues and friends after delivery and publication of Blackett's Presidential Address to the British Academy.c.1957
IM/GA/WS/1796Wallis, Sir Barnes Nevillend
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