Authorised form of name | Campbell; Colin (- 1752) |
Dates | - 1752 |
Nationality | British |
Research field | Astronomy |
Activity | Education: Middle Temple (admitted 1725) Career: Possibly set up an observatory at Kingston, Jamaica
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 10/12/1730 |
Relationships | Son of John Campbell of the parish of St Elizabeth, Jamaica |
Source | Sources: 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 |
Code | NA5312 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
RR/45/52 | Referee'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/26/31 | Referee'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 Parker | 16 June 1921 |
CLP/3ii/36 | Paper, '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 |