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Authorised form of nameRushton; William Albert Hugh (1901 - 1980)
Dates1901 - 1980
Date of birth08/12/1901
Date of death21/06/1980
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1948
Age at election46
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1970
Lectures:
Ferrier 1962
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1986 vol 32 pp 421-459, plate, by H B Barlow
CodeNA1975
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1948/20Rushton, William Albert Hugh: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/63/82Referee's report by Hamilton Hartridge, on a paper 'A graphical solution of a differential equation with application to hill’s treatment of nerve excitation' by William Albert Hugh RushtonMay 1937
RR/63/81Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Initiation of the propagated disturbance' by William Albert Hugh RushtonSeptember 1937
RR/69/170Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The electrical constants of a crustacean nerve fibre' by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and William Albert Hugh Rushton1945
RR/68/498Memoranda, on a paper 'Action potentials from the isolated nerve cord of the earthworm' by William Albert Hugh Rushton21 June 1944
RR/68/500Referee's report by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, on a paper 'Reflex conduction in the giant fibres of the earthworm' by William Albert Hugh Rushton[1944]
RR/68/499Referee's report by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, on a paper 'Action potentials from the isolated nerve cord of the earthworm' by William Albert Hugh Rushton[1944]
IM/GA/WS/3144Rushton, William Albert Hughnd
RR/69/171Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The electrical constants of a crustacean nerve fibre' by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and William Albert Hugh Rushton1945
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