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Authorised form of nameCoulson; Charles Alfred (1910 - 1974)
Dates1910 - 1974
NationalityBritish
Date of birth13/12/1910
Date of death07/01/1974
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1950
Age at election39
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1970
SourceAssocMaterial:
CSAC 60/4/78. Papers deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1974 vol 20 pp 75-134, plate, by S L Altman and E J Bowen
References:
N R Ingram, 'All that you can't leave behind' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 177-184
CodeNA2234
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1950/06Coulson, Charles Alfred: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WRS/8374Coulson, Charles Alfrednd
IM/GA/WS/4202Coulson, Charles Alfrednd
PB/6/2/4/2Folder inscribed 'Royal Society Evidence to Trend Committee'1962
RR/54/22Referee's report by Arthur Stewart Eve, on a paper 'The mechanism of the bactericidal action of radioactive radiations I & II' by D E Lea, R B Haines and Charles Alfred CoulsonDecember 1935
RR/54/21Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'The mechanism of the bactericidal action of radioactive radiations I & II' by D E Lea, R B Haines and Charles Alfred CoulsonDecember 1935
RR/72/61Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The electronic structure of conjugated systems. VI' by B H Chirgwin and Charles Alfred Coulson8 November 1949
RR/68/221Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'Molecular wave functions for lithium' by Charles Alfred Coulson and W E Duncanson20 August 1942
RR/70/68Referee's report by Gilbert Smithson Adair, on a paper 'A rapid method for determining diffusion constants in solution' by Charles Alfred Coulson, J T Cox, Alexander George Ogston and J St L Philpot1947
RR/70/66Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The electronic structure of conjugated systems I. General theory' by Charles Alfred Coulson and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins17 April 1947
RR/70/69Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The electronic structure of conjugated systems. Parts III and IV' by Charles Alfred Coulson and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins1947
RR/71/76Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The electronic structure of conjugated systems V. The interaction of two conjugated systems' by Charles Alfred Coulson and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins28 May 1948
RR/65/61Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The electronic structure of some polyenes and aromatic molecules. VII. Bonds of fractional order by the molecular orbital method' by Charles Alfred CoulsonOctober 1938
PB/1/33/3/1Companion of Honour1965
RR/64/97Referee's report by Arthur Stewart Eve, on a paper 'The action of radiations on bacteria III—Y-rays on growing and on non-proliferating bacteria' by D E Lea, R B Haines and Charles Alfred Coulson[January 1937]
RR/64/98Referee's report by Arthur Edwin Boycott, on a paper 'The action of radiations on bacteria III—Y-rays on growing and on non-proliferating bacteria' by D E Lea, R B Haines and Charles Alfred Coulson13 January 1937
IM/000965Coulson, Charles Alfrednd
RR/65/60Referee's report by Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, on a paper 'The electronic structure of some polyenes and aromatic molecules. VII. Bonds of fractional order by the molecular orbital method' by Charles Alfred Coulson12 September 1938
RR/70/67Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The electronic structure of conjugated systems II. Unsaturated hydrocarbons and their hetero-derivatives' by Charles Alfred Coulson and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins1947
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