| Authorised form of name | Ditchburn; Robert William (1903 - 1987) |
| Dates | 1903 - 1987 |
| Date of birth | 14/01/1903 |
| Date of death | 08/04/1987 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/03/1962 |
| Age at election | 59 |
| Sources | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 6/5/88. Papers deposited in Reading University Library
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1988 vol 34 pp 63-95, plate, by G W Series |
| Royal Society code | NA5089 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| PB/1/33/1/2 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| IM/GA/WRS/9044 | Ditchburn, Robert William | nd |
| RR/49/33 | Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Continuous absorption of light in caesium vapour' by H J J Braddick and Robert William Ditchburn | nd [October 1933] |
| RR/49/94 | Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'The deposition of sputtered films' by Robert William Ditchburn | [February 1933] |
| RR/55/59 | Referee's report by John Cunningham McLennan, on a paper ['The absorption of light in cæsium vapour in the presence of helium'] by H J J Braddick and Robert William Ditchburn | March 1935 |
| RR/68/225 | Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The continuous absorption of light in potassium vapour' by Robert William Ditchburn, J Tunstead and J G Yates | [1942] |
| EC/1962/08 | Ditchburn, Robert William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/39/66 | Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The ionisation of potassium vapour' by Robert William Ditchburn and F L Arnot | [February 1929] |
| RR/59/53 | Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The absorption of light in caesium vapour in the presence of foreign gases' by Robert William Ditchburn and J Harding | [June 1936] |
| RR/35/60 | Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'The continuous absorption of light in potassium vapour' by Robert Williams Ditchburn | September 1927 |
| RR/35/61 | Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'The continuous absorption of light in potassium vapour' by Robert Williams Ditchburn | September 1927 |
| RR/59/54 | Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The absorption of light in caesium vapour in the presence of foreign gases' by Robert William Ditchburn and J Harding | 22 May 1936 |