| Authorised form of name | Plaskett; Harry Hemley (1893 - 1980) |
| Surname | Plaskett |
| Forenames | Harry Hemley |
| Dates | 1893 - 1980 |
| Date of birth | 05 July 1893 |
| Date of death | 26/01/1980 |
| Dates and places | Birth:
05 July 1893
Death:
26 January 1980 |
| Activity | Education:
MA
Career:
Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, formerly Professor of Astrophysics, Harvard University
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/05/1936 |
| Royal Society activity | Membership:
Fellow
Election Date:
7/05/1936 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1981 vol 27 pp 445-478, plate, by W H McCrea |
| Royal Society code | NA1930 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| TG/1/2/2 | Letter from Thomas Gold to Professor Harry Hemley Plaskett, Oxford | 2 July 1964 |
| RR/69/208 | Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'A contribution to the theory of the Foucault test' by E H Linfoot | 1945 |
| RR/70/185 | Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'On interference microscopy' by Thomas Ralph Merton | 1947 |
| RR/72/195 | Referee's report by Harry Hemley Plaskett, on a paper 'On the reproduction and ruling of diffraction gratings' by Thomas Ralph Merton | 19 December 1949 |
| RR/71/110 | Letter from Harry Hemley Plaskett, to David Christie Martin, regarding a paper 'Microscopy by reconstructed wave-fronts' by Dennis Gabor | 21 September 1948 |
| IM/003597 | Plaskett, Harry Hemley | 1947 |
| EC/1936/13 | Plaskett, Harry Hemley: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |