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Authorised form of nameSkinner; Herbert Wakefield Banks (1900 - 1960)
Dates1900 - 1960
Date of birth07/10/1900
Date of death20/01/1960
ActivityEducation:
PhD (Cantab)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/03/1942
Age at election41
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1960 vol 6 pp 259-268, plate, by H Jones
CodeNA2230
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
PB/4/12/1Invitation to serve, list of members, correspondence re first meeting (chaired by Blackett), 28 May 1946May 1946
RR/44/69Referee's report by Frank Horton, on a paper 'The excitation potentials of light metals. I.—Lithium' by Herbert Wakefield Banks SkinnerOctober 1931
RR/47/98Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The excitation potentials of light metals. II.—Beryllium' by Herbert Wakefield Banks SkinnerJanuary 1933
RR/63/95Referee's report by Arthur Stewart Eve, on a paper 'Fine-structure of soft X-ray absorption edges - I—Li, Mg, Ni, Cu metals' by Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner and J E JohnstonMay 1937
RR/67/395Referee's report by Richard Whiddington, on a paper 'The soft x-ray spectroscopy of solids' by Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner18 March 1940
RR/67/308Referee's report by Richard Whiddington, on a paper 'The soft X-ray spectroscopy of solids, II. Emission spectra from simple chemical compounds' by H M O'Bryan and Herbert Wakefield Banks SkinnerMay 1940
RR/67/396Referee's report by Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'The soft x-ray spectroscopy of solids' by Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner16 March 1940
RR/72/91Letter from Herbert Wakefield Banks, on two papers 'The angular distribution of Y-radiation from light nuclei. Parts I and II' by Samuel Devons and M G N Hine to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society5 May 1949
RR/70/53Referee's report by Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner, on a paper 'Intensity measurements in the very soft X-ray regions' by F C Chalklin10 January 1948
RR/72/238Letter from Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner, on a paper 'The production of mesons by electrons' by I N Sneddon and B F Touschek to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society4 February 1949
RR/72/92Referee's report by Herbert Wakefield Banks, on two papers 'The angular distribution of Y-radiation from light nuclei. Parts I and II' by Samuel Devons and M G N Hine1949
NLB/65/736Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS14 December 1923
NLB/65/570Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS22 November 1923
PB/1/33/1/8Nobel Prize1948
NLB/65/722Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society12 December 1923
EC/1942/16Skinner, Herbert Wakefield Banks: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/46/26Second referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'Notes on the excitation processes in helium' by J H Lees and Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner[March 1932]
RR/46/27Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'Notes on the excitation processes in helium' by J H Lees and Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner[February 1932]
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