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Authorised form of nameHeitler; Walter Heinrich (1904 - 1981)
Dates1904 - 1981
Date of birth02/01/1904
Date of death15/11/1981
OccupationPhysicist
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1948
Age at election44
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1982 vol 28 pp 141-151, plate, by Sir Nevill Mott
References:
W Hayes, 'Physics as well as poetry. Physicists of Ireland, edited by M McCartney and A Whitaker' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 245-246
CodeNA1932
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1948/09Heitler, Walter Heinrich: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PB/1/33/1/4Nobel Prize1948
MM/22/58Letter from Walter Heinrich Heitler, Institut fur Theoretische Physik der Universitat Zurich, to D G Kendall15 March 1968
IM/GA/WS/3275Heitler, Walter Heinrich1948
RR/72/106Referee's report by Walter Heinrich Heitler, on a paper 'Heisenberg’s S matrix for a system of many particles' by R J Eden1949
RR/59/84Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'Time effects in the magnetic cooling method II—the conductivity of heat' by Herbert Fröhlich and Walter Heinrich Heitler[1936]
RR/65/97Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the nuclear forces and the magnetic moments of the neutron and the proton' by Herbert Fröhlich, Walter Heinrich Heitler and Nicholas KemmerFebruary 1938
RR/71/78Referee's report by Walter Heinrich Heitler, on a paper 'The indefinite metric in relativistic quantum mechanics' by K J Le Couteur[1948]
RR/71/257Referee's report by Walter Heinrich Heitler, on a paper 'On the electrodynamic self-energy of the electron' by Edwin Ernest Salpeter1948
RR/67/231Referee's report by Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, on a paper 'Inner excited states of the proton and neutron' by Walter Heinrich Heitler and S T MaJune 1940
RR/72/107Referee's report by Walter Heinrich Heitler, on a paper 'The analytic behaviour of Heisenberg’s S matrix' by R J Eden1949
RR/71/156Referee's report by Walter Heinrich Heitler, on a paper 'Non-central interactions between neutron and proton' by Tsi-ming Hu and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey[1948]
RR/69/162Referee's report by Norman Feather, on a paper 'The scattering of 4·2 MeV protons by deuterium, helium and other light elements' by Walter Heinrich Heitler, A N May and Cecil Frank Powell9 July 1946
RR/71/33Referee's report by Walter Heinrich Heitler, on a paper 'Unified field theory in a curvature-free five-dimensional manifold' by J G Bennett, R L Brown and M W Thring[1948]
RR/69/134Referee's report by Norman Feather, on a paper 'The elastic scattering of 6.5 MeV deuterons by deuterium, helium and other light elements' by K M Guggenheimer, Walter Heinrich Heitler and Cecil Frank Powell11 July 1946
RR/64/55Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, on a paper 'On the analysis of cosmic rays' by Walter Heinrich Heitler[April 1937]
RR/66/88Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'The photodisintegration of the deuteron in the meson theory' by Herbert Fröhlich, Walter Heinrich Heitler and B Kahn[October 1939]
RR/66/87Referee's report by James Chadwick and Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Deviation from the Coulomb law for the proton' by Herbert Fröhlich, Walter Heinrich Heitler and B Kahn[March 1939]
RR/57/103Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The passage of fast electrons and the theory of cosmic showers' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha and Walter Heinrich Heitler[December 1936]
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