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Authorised form of nameHolmes; Arthur (1890 - 1965)
Dates1890 - 1965
NationalityBritish
Place of birthHebburn on Tyne, County Durham, England
Date of birth14 January 1890
Place of deathLondon
Date of death20/09/1965
Research fieldGeology
Geophysics
Petrology
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/03/1942
SourceSources:
DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1966 vol 12 pp 291-310, plate, by K C Dunham
CodeNA4981
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
PB/3/2/1/9/4/2Correspondence with Arthur Holmes re Deccan Trap1955
PB/3/2/1/15/5/2Correspondence with Arthur Holmes re Blackett's climatology paper1961
PB/3/2/1/18/10/23Correspondence with Arthur Holmes re Blackett's Climatology paper c.1961
RR/18/148Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'The association of lead with uranium in rock-minerals, and its application to the measurement of geological time' by Arthur HolmesMarch 1911
IM/GA/WS/2728Holmes, Arthurnd
EC/1942/12Holmes, Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/56/22Referee's report by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton, on a paper 'Helium-ratios of rocks and minerals from the diamond pipes of South Africa' by Arthur Holmes and Friedrich Adolf Paneth30 November 1935
RR/56/21Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'Helium-ratios of rocks and minerals from the diamond pipes of South Africa' by Arthur Holmes and Friedrich Adolf Paneth[December 1935]
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