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Authorised form of nameRoberts; Sir; William (1830 - 1899)
Dates1830 - 1899
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBodedern, Anglesey, Wales
Date of birth18 March 1830
Place of deathLondon
Date of death16 April 1899
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Llanymawddwy, Merionethshire
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldRenal disease
ActivityEducation:
Manchester; University College, London. BA (1851), MD (1854).
Career:
Physician, Manchester Royal Infirmary (1855); Professor of Medicine, Owens College, Manchester (1863-1883)
Honours:
Kt 1885
Memberships:
FRCP (1865)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1877
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 68-71 signed by J R B
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/21099329
CodeNA6284
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/4/1112Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir William Roberts, Fellow of the Royal Society20 January 1891
NLB/5/74Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir William Roberts, Fellow of the Royal Society6 March 1891
NLB/18/660Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons18 April 1899
NLB/28/46Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Few & Company, 19 Surrey Street, Strand, W.C.23 December 1903
RR/11/99Referee's report by William Roberts, on a paper 'On the electrical resistance of various urines' by D F Turner1891
RR/7/340Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'Studies on biogenesis' by William Roberts27 May 1874
RR/8/231Referee's report by William Roberts, on a paper 'Researches into the colouring-matters of human urine, with an account of the separation of urobilin' by Charles Alexander MacMunn8 May 1880
EC/1877/17Roberts, Sir William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/3/721Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Secretary of The Pasteur Fund, Mansion House24 September 1889
NLB/28/32Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Few & Company22 December 1903
MC/11/76Letter from Wm [William] Roberts, 89 Mosley Street, Manchester, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society11 June 1877
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
MC/12/165Letter from Wm [William] Roberts, 89 Mosley Street, Manchester, to the Royal Society21 May 1881
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
PP/2/29Paper, 'Note on the discovery of bacilli in the condensed aqueous vapour of the breath of persons affected with phthisis' by [Arthur] Ransome1882
PP/17/28Paper, 'A new test for albumin and other proteids' by J A [John Alexander] MacWilliam1891
PP/1/10Letter, regarding 'On the estimation of the amylolytic and proteolytic activity of pancreatic extracts' from William Roberts to the Secretary of the Royal Society30 November 1881
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