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Authorised form of nameKupffer; Adolph Theodor (1799 - 1865)
Dates1799 - 1865
Date of birth06 January 1799
Date of death04 June 1865
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election23/04/1846
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1866-1867 vol 15 pp xlvi-xlvii
References:
James Gabriel O'Hara, 'Gauss and the Royal Society: The Reception of His Ideas on Magnetism in Britain (1832-1842)' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 17-78
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/71669100
CodeNA5601
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/002582Kupffer, Adolph Theodor1845
MM/11/182Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to G B Airy11 May 1842
MM/10/39Letter from AT Kupffer, to Sir Edward Sabine15/27 January 1840
MM/10/35ATranscript of Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine, 15 May 1830 (MM/10/35)15 May 1830
MM/10/45Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine25 March / 6 April 1841
MM/10/40Letter from AT Kupffer, to Sir Edward Sabine16 February 1840
MM/10/35Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Edward Sabine15 May 1830
MM/11/161Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Edward Sabine26 December 1841
MM/10/67Letter from AT Kupffer, London, to Sir Edward Sabine4 October 1862
MM/10/75Letter from AT Kupffer to Sir Edward Sabine20 July
MM/10/53Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine1/13 June 1844
MM/10/68Letter from AT Kupffer, Paris, to Sir Edward Sabine6 October 1862
MM/10/50Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine20 June / 1 July 1842
MM/10/54Letter from AT Kupffer to Sir Edward Sabine1/13 November 1844
MM/10/56Letter from AT Kupffer to Sir Edward Sabine2/14 May 1845
MM/10/73ATranscript of a letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine (MM/10/73)1864
MM/10/64Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine14 / 26 January 1859
MM/10/66Letter from AT Kupffer, Paris, to Sir Edward Sabine29 September 1862
MM/10/55Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine13/25 March 1845
MM/11/179Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Edward Sabine14/26 April 1842
MM/10/72Letter from AT Kupffer, Dresden, to Sir Edward Sabine24 November 1864
MM/10/48Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine14/26 April 1842
MM/10/77Draft of a letter from Sir Edward Sabine to AT Kupffer27 January
MM/10/59Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine22 November 1849
MM/10/74Letter from AT Kupffer to Sir Edward Sabine
MM/10/69Letter from AT Kupffer, Dresden, to Sir Edward Sabine17 October 1862
MM/10/51Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine25 July / 6 August 1842
MM/10/36Letter from AT Kupffer, Munich [?], to Sir Edward Sabine15 August 1839
MM/17/9Letter from AT Kupffer to William Parsons, 3rd Earl RosseOctober 1854
MM/10/57Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine18/30 May 1845
MM/10/52Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine6/18 October 1843
MM/10/49Letter from AT Kupffer to Sir Edward Sabine21 May / 2 June 1842
MM/10/37Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine14/26 November 1839
MM/10/62Letter from AT Kupffer, Dresden, to Sir Edward Sabine26 August 1854
MM/10/60Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine26 December 1849 / 6 January 1850
MC/4/139Letter from Adolph Theodor Kupffer, Observatoires Magnetiques et Météorologique des Mines, St. Petersburg, to Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society 28 May 1846
NLB/16/44Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to M Rykatcheff, St Petersburg18 January 1898
NLB/15/417Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to M M Rykatcheff, Directeur, Observatoire Physique Central, Pavlovski, Russia 27 September 1897
NLB/15/709Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Robert Henry Scott, Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1897
MC/4/292Letter from [Adolph Theodor] Kupffer, director at the Central Physical Observatory, St Petersburg, to the Royal Society22 August 1849
MM/10/71Letter from AT Kupffer, Dresden, to Sir Edward Sabine24 November 1863
MM/10/73Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine29 July / 9 August 1864
MM/10/65Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine20 August / 10 September 1859
MM/10/64ATranscript of a letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine (MM/10/64)1859
MM/10/61Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine22 September / 4 October 1853
EC/1846/18Kupffer, Adolph Theodor: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/10/38Letter from AT Kupffer, to Sir Edward Sabine11/23 December 1839
MM/10/44Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine10/22 August 1840
MM/10/41Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine18/30 March 1840
MM/10/42Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine18/30 April 1840
MM/10/47Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine22 February 1841 / 7 March 1841
MM/10/43Letter from AT Kupffer, to Sir Edward Sabine2/14 January 1840
MM/10/63Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine26 April / 6 May 1856
MM/10/46Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine13 May 1841
MM/10/58Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine22 September / 4 October 1845
MM/10/70Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Sir Edward Sabine3/15 July 1863
MC/3Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1839-1843
MC/3/45Draft letter from [Adolph Theodor] Kupffer, Göttingen, to Sir [Edward] Sabine19 October 1839
MC/3/108Letter from [Adolph Theodor] Kupffer, to Major Edward Sabine29 September 1840
MC/4Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1844-1850
AP/16/21/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Instructions pour faire des observations météorologique et magnétiques' [Instructions for making meteorological and magnetic observations] by A Th [Adolph Theodor] Kupffer1836
AP/16/21Unpublished paper, 'Instructions pour faire des observations météorologique et magnétiques' [Instructions for making meteorological and magnetic observations] by A Th [Adolph Theodor] Kupffer1836
AP/16/21/2Unpublished letter, regarding instructions for making meteorological and magnetic observations from A T [Adolph Theodor] Kupffer to Colonel Jackson18 May 1836
AP/16/21/3Unpublished letter, regarding instructions for making meteorological and magnetic observations from John Washington to J G [John George] Children28 July 1836
AP/16/21/4Unpublished letter, regarding instructions for making meteorological and magnetic observations from J G [John George] Children to John Washington28 October 1836
AP/31/8Letter, regarding the establishment of a central observatory at St Petersburg [Russia] from Adolph Theodor Kupffer to Edward Sabine 2 August 1849
MS/257/3/311Letter from Dietrich Reimer, [London] to [Adolph Theodor] Kupffer19 November 1852
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