| Authorised form of name | Laby; Thomas Howell (1880 - 1946) |
| Surname | Laby |
| Forenames | Thomas Howell |
| Dates | 1880 - 1946 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Dates and places | Birth:
Creswick, Victoria, Australia (03 May 1880)
Death:
Melbourne, Australia (21 June 1946) |
| Activity | Research Field:
Physics
Education:
University of Sydney; University of Cambridge. ScD (1921, Cambridge)
Career:
Published with Sir Douglas Mawson (FRS 1923) first Australian research results on radioactivity (1904); Professor of Physics, Victoria University College, New Zealand (1909-1915); Professor of Natural Philosophy (1915-1944) and Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Royal Society activity | Membership:
Fellow
Election Date:
7/05/1931 |
| Relationships | Son of T J Laby of Creswick, Victoria, Australia; married (1914) Beatrice Littlejohn; two daughters |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; AuDB; AE
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1945-1948 vol 5 pp 733-755, plate, by D K Picken
References:
Robin J H Clark and Michael J Kelly, 'New Zealand, New Zealanders and the Royal Society' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 263-281
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
N N Greenwood and J A Spink, 'An antipodean laboratory of remarkable distinction' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 85-105
D Ambrose 'A History of Kaye and Laby' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 49-59 |
| Royal Society code | NA6157 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| NLB/35/227 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Howell Laby, Emmanuel College, Cambridge | 2 May 1907 |
| NLB/39/276 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr T [Thomas] H [Howell] Laby | 19 December 1908 |
| NLB/35/773 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Howell Laby, 27 Chesterton Road, Cambridge | 16 July 1907 |
| NLB/35/175 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Howell Laby, Emmanuel College, Cambridge | 27 April 1907 |
| NLB/35/270 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Howell Laby, Emmanuel College, Cambridge | 8 May 1907 |
| NLB/40/107 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr T [Homas] H [Howell] Laby, Emmanuel College, Cambridge | April 1909 |
| NLB/36/426 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Thomas Howell Laby | 29 October 1907 |
| NLB/37/791 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Mr Laby | 13 May 1908 |
| NLB/38/418 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Howell Laby, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 31 July 1908 |
| NLB/37/637 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] M [Mitchinson] Hicks, Fellow of the Royal Society | 23 April 1908 |
| NLB/37/647 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [Joseph] Larmor, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary of the Royal Society | 24 April 1908 |
| NLB/37/689 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] M [Mitchinson] Hicks, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physics & Chemistry Sectional Committee | 1 May 1908 |
| NLB/39/225 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr T [Thomas] H [Howell] Laby | 14 December 1908 |
| RR/38/86 | Referee's report by Ezer Griffiths, on a paper 'The thermal and the electrical conductivity of a copper crystal at various temperatures' by W G Kannuluik and Thomas Howell Laby | August 1928 |
| RR/17/308 | Referee's report by William Mitchenson Hicks, on a paper 'The condensation of certain organic vapours' by Thomas Howell Laby | April 1908 |
| RR/22/59 | Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of air' by E O Hercus and Thomas Howell Laby | June 1915 |
| RR/35/134 | Referee's report by Richard Tetley Glazebrook, on a paper 'The mechanical equivalent of heat' by Thomas Howell Laby and E O Hercus | March 1927 |
| RR/35/133 | Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The mechanical equivalent of heat' by Thomas Howell Laby and E O Hercus | February 1927 |
| RR/39/70 | Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Quantitative analysis by X-ray spectroscopy' by C E Eddy and Thomas Howell Laby | [January 1930] |
| RR/43/21 | Referee's report by Harold Roper Robinson, on a paper 'The sensitivity of atomic analysis by X-rays' by C E Eddy and Thomas Howell Laby | 15 January 1932 |
| RR/43/86 | Referee's report by William Lawrence Bragg, on a paper 'The reflection and diffraction of X-rays' by Thomas Howall Laby and R T W Bingham | 1931 |
| RR/50/29 | Referee's report by Ezer Griffiths, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of air' by Thomas Howell Laby | October 1933 |
| RR/51/26 | Referee's report by Harold Roper Robinson, on a paper 'Auger effect in argon' by Leslie Harold Martin, J C Bower and Thomas Howell Laby | 26 October 1934 |
| RR/66/142 | Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'Wave form, energy and reflexion by the ionosphere, of atmospherics' by Thomas Howell Laby, J J McNeill, F G Nicholls and A F B Nickson | [1939] |
| RR/68/84 | Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'The electronic charge' by V D Hopper and Thomas Howell Laby | [March 1941] |
| NLB/71/992 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the [Right Honourable, Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS | 7 January 1929 |
| RR/19/76 | Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'The observation by means of a string electrometer of fluctuations in the ionisation produced by ?-rays' by Thomas Howell Laby and P W Burbidge | [February 1912] |
| RR/39/69 | Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Analysis by X-ray spectroscopy' by C E Eddy, Thomas Howell Laby and A H Turner | [1929] |
| EC/1931/13 | Laby, Thomas Howell: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/40/308 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Ernest] Rutherford FRS | 24 May 1909 |
| RR/51/27 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Auger effect in argon' by Leslie Harold Martin, J C Bower and Thomas Howell Laby | [October 1934] |