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Authorised form of nameSmith; Robert Allan (1909 - 1980)
Dates1909 - 1980
NationalityBritish
Date of birth14/05/1909
Date of death16/05/1980
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1960
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/03/1962
Age at election52
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1982 vol 28 pp 479-504, plate, by S D Smith
CodeNA1939
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
PB/1/33/5/7Order of Merit1967
HWT/24/6/27Correspondence and papers regarding exchanges, cooperation between British Academy and USSR Institute of Archaeology and non observance by USSR of International Copyright ConventionsJune 1971
EC/1962/22Smith, Robert Allan: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/58/79Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'Negative atomic ions' by H S W Massey and Robert Allan SmithMarch 1936
RR/65/243Referee's report by George Paget Thomson, on a paper 'Formation of negative ions at metal surfaces' by Robert Allan SmithMarch 1938
RR/58/80Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'Negative atomic ions' by H S W Massey and Robert Allan SmithFebruary 1936
IM/001084Group photograph at Physics Laboratory at R R E Malvern15 May 1961
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