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Authorised form of nameMitra; Sisir Kumar (1890 - 1963)
Dates1890 - 1963
NationalityIndian
Date of birth24 October 1890
Date of death13/08/1963
ActivityHonours:
MBE 1936
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1958
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1964 vol 10 pp 221-228, plate, by J A Ratcliffe
References:
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64
CodeNA4604
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/65/166Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Geoffrey Ingram] Taylor Esq., FRS5 September 1923
NLB/65/624Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mr [Sisir Kumar] Mitra; 27 Kayethtuly, P. O. Ramna, Dacca, Bengal, India30 November 1923
EC/1958/19Mitra, Sisir Kumar: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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