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Authorised form of nameWhittaker; John Macnaghten (1905 - 1984)
Dates1905 - 1984
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCambridge, England
Date of birth07/03/1905
Date of death29/01/1984
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1949
Age at election44
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1985 vol 31 pp 653-666, plate, by W K Hayman
CodeNA1956
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1949/24Whittaker, John Macnaghten: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/3445Whittaker, John Macnaghtennd
RR/37/152Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the principle of least action in wave mechanics' by John Macnagheten WhittakerSeptember 1928
RR/72/271Referee's report by John Macnaghten Whittaker, on a paper 'On the asymptotic distribution of eigenvalues' by J S De Wet and F Mandl1949
PB/1/33/1/10Nobel Prize1948
MM/22/57Letter from John Macnaghten Whittaker, 12 Endcliffe Crescent, Sheffield 10, to D G Kendall14 March 1968
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