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Authorised form of nameBurhop; Eric Henry Stonely (1911 - 1980)
Dates1911 - 1980
Place of birthHobart, Australia
Date of birth31/01/1911
Date of death22/01/1980
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
Melbourne University. B.Sc., B.A., MSc (1933). Cambridge University, PhD (1938)
Career:
Studied subatmomic particles; worked on the Manhattan Project; Lecturer, Melbourne University (1936-1942); Lecturer (1945), Professor of Physics (1960-1978), University College, London;
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/03/1963
Age at election52
SourceSources:
Monash
AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 40/2/93. Papers deposited in the Library, University College, London
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1981 vol 27 pp 131-152, plate, by Sir Harrie Massey and D H Davis
CodeNA2222
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
PB/9/1/23Correspondence with Eric Burhop1948
PB/9/1/101/12Royal Society correspondence1970
PB/1/33/4/1President of the Royal Society1965
HWT/36/1/17General correspondence and papersc1970
RR/53/10Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The Auger effect' by Eric Henry Stonely Burhop[September 1934]
RR/53/9Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'The probability of inner shell ionization of atoms by electron impact' by Eric Henry Stonely Burhop[March 1934]
RR/49/50Referee's report by William Lawrence Bragg, on a paper 'On the variation of the intensity of K and L series radiation with tube potential' by Eric Henry Stonely Burhop[December 1933]
RR/49/48Referee's report by William Lawrence Bragg, on a paper 'On the relative probability of the ionization of an atom in the K and L shells by electron impact' by Eric Henry Stonely Burhop[December 1933]
RR/49/49Referee's report by Cecil Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'On the relative probability of the ionization of an atom in the K and L shells by electron impact' by Eric Henry Stonely Burhop[January 1934]
RR/70/46Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'The capture of neutrons by deuterons' by Eric Henry Stonely Burhop and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey1947
RR/71/65Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'The scattering of high-energy neutrons by protons and the law of interaction between nucleons' by Eric Henry Stonely Burhop and H N Yadav[1948]
IM/GA/JGRS/7993Burhop, Eric Henry Stonely1977
EC/1963/04Burhop, Eric Henry Stoneley: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/49/51Referee's report by Cecil Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'On the variation of the intensity of K and L series radiation with tube potential' by Eric Henry Stonely Burhop[January 1934]
RR/54/40Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The relativistic theory of the auger effect' by H S W Massey and Eric Henry Stonely BurhopOctober 1935
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