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Authorised form of nameRive; Auguste Arthur de la (1801 - 1873)
Other forms of nameAuguste Arthur
Other forms of surnamede la Rive
Dates1801 - 1873
Date of birth09 October 1801
Date of death27 November 1873
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election23/04/1846
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1875-1876 vol 24 pp xxxvii-xl
References:
Paul A Tunbridge, 'Faraday's Genevese Friends' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 263-298, plate
Paul A Tunbridge, 'A Letter by William Thomson, FRS, on the "Thomson Effect"' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 229-232
Sydney Ross, 'The Search for Electromagnetic Induction 1820-1831' in NR 1965 vol 20 pp 184-219
K K Schwarz, 'Faraday and Babbage' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp367-381
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/95149993
CodeNA5728
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1846/17Rive, Auguste Arthur de la: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/257/3/339Letter from Auguste Arthur De La Rive, Geneva to [Edward Sabine]6 November 1871
MC/9/141Letter from W Tenant [?], 48 Harley Street, Cavendish Square, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]3 December 1870
MC/10/44Letter from F [Francois] Marcet, 14 Stratton Street, London, to the Dr [Joseph Dalton] Hooker, President of the Royal Society3 December 1873
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
PT/32/4Paper, 'Quelques recherches sur l'arc voltaïc sur l'influence qu'exerce le magnétisme, soit sur cet arc, soit sur les corps qui transmettent les courants électriques discontinus' by [Auguste Arthur] de la Rive[1846]
PT/32/4iPaper, 'Researches on the voltaic arc and on the influence which magnetism exercises both on this arc, and on bodies transmitting interrupted electric currents' by [Auguste Arthur] de la Rive[1846]
PP/14/17Paper, 'The conditions of the reaction between copper and nitric acid' by V H [Victor Herbert] Veley1889
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