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Authorised form of nameDobbie; Sir; James Johnston (1852 - 1924)
Dates1852 - 1924
Date of birth04 August 1852
Date of death19/06/1924
ActivityEducation:
DSc; MA
Honours:
Kt 1915
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1904
RelationshipsFather-in-law of Sir Walter Norman Haworth (FRS 1928)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1925 vol 107 pp vi-viii, plate, signed by J W
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/30319004
CodeNA3151
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1904/04Dobbie, Sir James Johnston: certificate of election to the Royal Society
EC/1904/05Dobbie, Sir James Johnston: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/58/620Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Dobbie, FRS29 May 1920
RR/26/32Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'The absorption of light by elements in a state of vapour: The halogens' by James Johnston Dobbie and John Jacob Fox[June 1921]
IM/001173Dobbie, Sir James Johnston1922
NLB/67/109Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to A. Macphail Esq.; Ministry of Health, Whitehall, S.W.127 October 1924
NLB/65/495Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Alexander Scott, FRS8 November 1923
NLB/66/757Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Walker, FRS4 July 1924
NLB/67/603Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Walker, FRS28 January 1925
NLB/67/527Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Walker, FRS15 January 1925
NLB/56/398Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Percy Faraday] Frankland, FRS29 January 1919
PP/4/45Paper, 'On the relation between the electrical qualities and the chemical composition of glass and allied substances. Part I' by Thomas Gray, Andrew Gray and J J [James Johnston] Dobbie1884
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