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Authorised form of nameCampbell; Colin (- 1752)
Dates - 1752
NationalityBritish
Research fieldAstronomy
ActivityEducation:
Middle Temple (admitted 1725)
Career:
Possibly set up an observatory at Kingston, Jamaica
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election10/12/1730
RelationshipsSon of John Campbell of the parish of St Elizabeth, Jamaica
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; MT; Taylor Hanoverian; Musgrave
AssocMaterial:
Additional information in Box File.
References:
D J Bryden, 'The Jamaican Observatories of Colin Campbell, FRS and Alexander Macfarlane, FRS' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 261-272
Notes:
Proposed by Edmond Halley; James Campbell; Stephen Hales or Richard Hale
CodeNA5312
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RR/45/52Referee's report by Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, on a paper 'The measurement of pressures developed in explosion waves' by Colin Campbell, William Brian Littler and Clifford Whitworth[May 1932]
RR/26/31Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'On the velocity of sound in gases at high temperatures, and the ratio of the specific heats' by Harold Baily Dixon, Colin Campbell and A Parker16 June 1921
CLP/3ii/36Paper, 'An account of some observations made in London by Mr George Graham and at Black River in Jamaica by Colin Campbell concerning the going of a clock in order to determine the difference between the lengths of isochronal pendulums in those places' 1733
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