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Authorised form of nameNicholson; John William (1881 - 1955)
Dates1881 - 1955
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDarlington, County Durham, England
Date of birth01 November 1881
Place of deathOxford
Date of death03 or 10 October 1955
Research fieldMathematical physics
Astrophysics
ActivityEducation:
MA (Camb); DSc
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/05/1917
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1956 vol 2 pp 209-214, plate, by Wm Wilson
References:
Brebis Bleaney, 'The Physical Sciences in Oxford, 1918-1939 and Earlier' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 247-261
Notes:
DSB gives death date as 10 October 1955
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/116102201
CodeNA6296
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1917/09Nicholson, John William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/003321Nicholson, John Williamnd
RR/26/145Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The diffraction of plane electromagnetic waves by a perfectly reflecting sphere' by F Puryer White and Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich[August 1921]
NLB/58/473Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS 11 May 1920
RR/23/67Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On the distribution of intensity in broadened spectrum lines' by John William Nicholson and Thomas Ralph Merton1916
NLB/54/513Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS6 June 1917
NLB/40/362Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to J W Nicholson, Trinity College, Cambridge27 May 1909
RR/23/68Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'On the distribution of intensity in broadened spectrum lines' by John William Nicholson and Thomas Ralph Merton1916
RR/27/82Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Constitution of the X-ray spectra belonging to the L series of the elements' by H HirataAugust 1922
NLB/60/807Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Cahairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS8 April 1921
NLB/63/644Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS23 November 1922
NLB/60/822Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS11 April 1921
RR/23/61Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On phenomena relating to the spectra of hydrogen and helium' by Thomas Ralph Merton and John William Nicholson1916
RR/29/57Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Aberration diffraction effects' by G C StewardJanuary 1923
NLB/58/198Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS25 March 1920
NLB/54/573Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Son22 June 1917
RR/27/119Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Oblate spheroidal harmonics and their applications' by John William NicholsonDecember 1922
NLB/55/242Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. J.R. Airey, c/o Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS01 February 1918
RR/25/31Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'On intensity relations in the spectrum of helium' by Thomas Ralph Merton and John William Nicholson[May 1918]
RR/25/15Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Electromagnetic integrals' by Alfred George Greenhill[May 1918]
RR/26/55Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Atomic systems based on free electrons, both positive and negative, and their stability' by Richard Hargreaves[November 1921]
RR/26/135Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'On the free transverse vibrations of a uniform circular disc clamped at its centre; and on the effects of rotation' by Richard Vynne Southwell[October 1921]
RR/28/44Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'On the quantum theory of the simple Zeeman effect' by [Ali Moustafa] Mosharrafa[November 1922]
RR/27/96Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The rotation of two circular cylinders in a viscous fluid' by George Barker JefferyJanuary 1922
NLB/63/118Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS30 June 1922
RR/33/107Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The diffraction method of measuring the diameters of erythrocytes' by W G MillarNovember 1925
RR/27/19Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The line of action of the resultant pressure in discontinuous fluid motion' by S BrodetskyAugust 1922
NLB/56/718Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS; Kings College, Strand8 May 1919
NLB/56/673Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS; Kings College, Strand10 April 1919
NLB/58/47Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS4 March 1920
RR/22/85Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'The band spectrum associated with helium' by John William NicholsonMay 1915
NLB/58/690Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS7 June 1920
NLB/58/276Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [J W] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS15 April 1920
RR/17/332Referee's report by Thomas John I'anson Bromwich, on a paper 'The bending of electric waves round a spherical obstacle' by John William Nicholson10 August 1908
NLB/63/572Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS08 November 1922
NLB/58/747Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS14 June 1920
NLB/61/760Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Imperial College of Science and Technology; South Kensington21 October 1921
NLB/58/585Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS27 May 1920
NLB/59/524Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS13 October 1920
NLB/59/162Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS22 July 1920
NLB/61/759Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS20 October 1921
NLB/59/527Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS13 October 1920
NLB/59/706Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and
FRS
5 November 1920
RR/27/72Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Dispersion formulae and the polarisation of scattered light: with application to hydrogen' by Thomas Henry HavelockMarch 1922
NLB/63/59Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS20 June 1922
RR/27/18Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Discontinuous fluid motion past circular and elliptic cylinders' by S BrodetskyOctober 1922
NLB/60/6Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans,] Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS2 December 1920
RR/26/25Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Eddy-current losses in cylindrical conductors, with special applications to the alternating current resistances of short coils' by S Butterworthnd [1921]
RR/26/121Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'A new optical property of biaxial crystals' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and V S Tamma[1921]
NLB/60/295Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS13 January 1921
NLB/60/114Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS10 December 1920
RR/27/24Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Series and other regularities in the spectrum of manganese' by Miguel A CatalanMarch 1922
NLB/60/351Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS21 January 1921
NLB/60/427Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS3 February 1921
NLB/60/777Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematical Society and FRS5 April 1921
NLB/60/727Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS19 March 1921
NLB/60/849Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS15 April 1921
NLB/61/159Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William?] Nicholson, FRS26 May 1921
NLB/61/387Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS30 June 1921
NLB/57/101Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook, FRS23 July 1919
NLB/61/3Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS26 April 1921
NLB/57/159Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to JH [James Hopwood] Jeans Esq, FRS, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee30 July 1919
NLB/64/285Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS7 March 1923
RR/27/31Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The structure of the band spectrum of helium' by William Edward CurtisJanuary 1922
NLB/61/204Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematical Society and FRS1 June 1921
NLB/61/225Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematical Society and FRS2 June 1921
NLB/61/272Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS13 June 1921
NLB/62/46Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS23 November 1921
NLB/61/414Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS4 July 1921
NLB/57/557Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Frank [Watson] Dyson, FRS4 December 1919
NLB/63/318Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Section Committee and FRS22 August 1922
NLB/61/563Copy letter from [Alfred Hastings] White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS2 August 1921
NLB/61/490Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS12 July 1921
NLB/57/660Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William ] Nicholson, FRS, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee7 January 1920
NLB/62/98Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS1 December 1921
NLB/61/676Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS 4 October 1921
NLB/57/681Copy letter from TE James, Clerk of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS12 January 1920
NLB/61/619Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS23 September 1921
NLB/61/829Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS1 November 1921
NLB/57/798Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee9 February 1920
NLB/61/897Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS10 November 1921
NLB/62/377Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS2 February 1922
NLB/62/316Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS23 January 1922
NLB/62/55Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS24 November 1921
NLB/63/203Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS17 July 1922
NLB/62/760Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS29 April 1922
NLB/62/212Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS2 January 1922
NLB/62/331Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS27 January 1922
NLB/62/261Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS13 January 1922
NLB/62/285Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS19 January 1922
NLB/64/35Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS22 January 1923
NLB/62/364Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS1 February 1922
NLB/62/681Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS6 April 1922
NLB/57/845Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS21 February 1920
NLB/62/534Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematical Society and FRS2 March 1922
NLB/62/485Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS21 February 1922
NLB/65/259Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS1 October 1923
NLB/62/571Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS15 March 1922
NLB/62/904Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS2 June 1922
NLB/62/597Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS21 March 1922
NLB/55/553Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison], Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [James Hopwood] Jeans Esq., Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS01 June 1918
NLB/64/443Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS12 April 1923
NLB/62/640Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS30 March 1922
NLB/63/435Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS13 October 1922
NLB/63/176Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John Williams] Nicholson, FRS11 July 1922
NLB/62/835Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS17 May 1922
NLB/62/878Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS25 May 1922
NLB/63/47Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS17 June 1922
NLB/62/892Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS29 May 1922
NLB/62/913Copy letter from [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS; to Professor [Horace] Lamb, FRS2 June 1922
NLB/62New Letter Book volume 62, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration11 November 1921-10 June 1922
NLB/57/244Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Frank [Watson] Dyson, FRS, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee26 September 1919
NLB/57/828Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS17 February 1920
NLB/57/817Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John William] Nicholson, FRS13 February 1920
NLB/57/691Copy letter from John M [Millar] Thomson, Chairman of the Library Committee of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS, Chairman of the Sectional Committee of Mathematics16 January 1920
NLB/57/733Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS30 January 1920
NLB/63/407Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS09 October 1922
NLB/67/615Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS31 January 1925
NLB/63/677Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS30 November 1922
NLB/63/717Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS07 December 1922
NLB/63/25Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS15 June 1922
NLB/64/836Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Horace] Lamb [Chairman of the Mathematics Committee] FRS27 June 1923
RR/31/33Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Spheroidal wave-functions' by John William Nicholson[October 1924]
NLB/66/343Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS12 April 1924
NLB/64/678Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Horace] Lamb [Chairman of the Mathematics Committee] FRS31 May 1923
NLB/68/698Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS19 October 1925
NLB/66/349Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society; to [John William] Nicholson, FRS12 April 1924
NLB/67/942Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS22 April 1925
RR/29/31Referee's report by Ralph Allen Sampson, on a paper 'On the theory and testing of right-angled prisms' by John William Nicholson and F J CheshireMarch 1923
NLB/68/907Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS26 November 1925
NLB/66/457Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John William] Nicholson, FRS15 May 1924
NLB/68/928Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Edward] Sharpey Schafer, FRS1 December 1925
NLB/66/843Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Sydney] Chapman24 July 1924
NLB/68/427Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Imperial College of Science11 July 1925
NLB/68/717Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS21 October 1925
NLB/68/927Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS30 November 1925
NLB/70/887Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS29 October 1927
NLB/65/15Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, FRS13 July 1923
NLB/67/525Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney] Chapman, FRS15 January 1925
NLB/68/674Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney] Chapman, FRS8 October 1925
NLB/63New Letter Book volume 63, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration10 June 1922-19 January 1923
RR/23/107Referee's report by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, on a paper 'On the magnetic shielding of large spaces, and its experimental measurement' by Ernest Wilson and John William Nicholson15 June 1916
RR/25/32Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On intensity relations in the spectrum of helium' by Thomas Ralph Merton and John William Nicholsonnd [1918]
RR/26/123Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Conical refraction in biaxial crystals I' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and V S Tammand [1921]
NLB/60/542Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS21 February 1921
RR/26/20Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The equilibrium of a heavy beam under end-load' by Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich[September 1921]
NLB/61/75Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematical Committee and FRS5 May 1921
NLB/61/101Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS10 May 1921
NLB/61/695Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS13 October 1921
NLB/57/802Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society;to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee9 February 1920
NLB/66/387Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS30 April 1924
RR/31/32Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'The electrification of two parallel circular discs' by John William Nicholson[June 1924]
RR/24/96Referee's report by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, on a paper 'On residual magnetism in relation to magnetic shielding' by Ernest Wilson and John William Nicholson[March 1917]
NLB/58New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration28 February 1920-9 July 1920
NLB/60/456Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS10 February 1921
NLB/60New Letter Book volume 60, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration2 December 1920-26 April 1921
NLB/61New Letter Book volume 61, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 April 1921-11 November 1921
NLB/62/286Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John William] Nicholson, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS19 January 1922
NLB/66/517Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Sydney] Chapman, FRS22 May 1924
NLB/66/658Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Sydney] Chapman13 June 1924
NLB/64New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration19 January 1923-11 July 1923
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/26/100Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on two papers 'The physical meaning of spherical aberration' by L C Martin and 'Eddy-current losses in cylindrical conductors, with special applications to the alternating current resistances of short coils' by S Butterworth4 June 1921
RR/29/50Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'On the scattering of X- and Y- rays by rings of electrons. The effect of damping of the incident radiation' by George Adolphus SchottMay 1923
RR/32/134Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Laplace's equation and surfaces of revolution' by D M Wrich and John William Nicholson10 February 1925
RR/17/331Referee's report by John Edensor Littlewood, on a paper 'The bending of electric waves round a spherical obstacle' by John William Nicholson1908
RR/25/21Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'A critical study of spectral series.—Part V. The spectra of the monatomic gases' by William Mitchinson Hicks[July 1918]
RR/25/33Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The constitution of the electron and a thoery of the motion of Faraday tubes' by Samuel Roslington Milner[May 1919]
RR/26/38Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The atomic process in ferromagnetic Induction' by James Alfred Ewing[August 1921]
RR/26/72Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'On the velocity distribution function, and on the stresses in a non-uniform rarefied monatomic gas' by J E Jones[January 1922]
RR/27/118Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Oblate spheroidal harmonics and their applications' by John William Nicholson24 January 1923
RR/31/31Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'The electrification of two parallel circular discs' by John William Nicholson[May 1924]
AP/78/4Unpublished paper, 'The bending of electric waves round a spherical obstacle' by J W [John William] Nicholson1908
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