| Authorised form of name | Niven; Charles (1845 - 1923) |
| Dates | 1845 - 1923 |
| Place of birth | Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 14 September 1845 |
| Date of death | 11/05/1923 |
| Activity | Education:
MA (1863, Aberdeen); Cambridge University
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor of Mathematics, Queen's College, Cork; Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Aberdeen (1880-1922)
Memberships:
FRAS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1880 |
| Relationships | Son of Charles Niven, shopkeeper, of Peterhead; younger brother of Sir William Davidson Niven (FRS 1882); married Mary, daughter of Sir David Stewart of Banchory |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1923 vol 104 pp xxvii-xxviii signed by H M M |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/2415166063373680560008 |
| Royal Society code | NA6501 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| RR/17/190 | Referee's report by Charles Niven, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The effect of temperature and pressure on the thermal conductivities of solids.—Part II. The effects of low temperatures on the thermal and electrical conductivities of certain approximately pure metals and alloys' by Charles Herbert Lees | 26 December 1907 |
| NLB/9/355 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Charles Niven, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 May 1894 |
| NLB/9/345 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Charles Niven, Fellow of the Royal Society | 1 May 1894 |
| RR/16/215 | Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'A method of finding the conductivity for heat' by Charles Niven | 10 December 1904 |
| NLB/30/53 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Charles Niven, Fellow of the Royal Society | January 1905 |
| NLB/38/693 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor and Archibald Geikie, to Professor Charles Niven, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 October 1908 |
| RR/8/236 | Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the induction of electric currents in infinite plates and spherical shells' by Charles Niven | 4 June 1880 |
| RR/8/237 | Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On the induction of electric currents in infinite plates and spherical shells' by Charles Niven | 4 November 1880 |
| RR/9/278 | Referee's report by Charles Niven, on a paper 'On the steady motion and small vibrations a hollow vortex. Part II' by William Mitchinson Hicks | 20 November 1885 |
| RR/9/218 | Referee's report by Charles Niven, on a paper 'On the steady motion and small vibrations a hollow vortex' by William Mitchinson Hicks | 16 February 1884 |
| NLB/65/239 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS | 27 September 1923 |
| NLB/64/867 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hector Munro] Macdonald, FRS | 5 July 1923 |
| NLB/64/768 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Hector [Munro] Macdonald FRS | 15 June 1923 |
| RR/21/103 | Referee's report by Charles Niven, on a paper 'On the convection of heat from small cylinders in a stream of fluid: Determination of the convection constants of small platinum wires with applications to hot-wire anemometry' by Louis Vessot King | [June 1914] |
| RR/10/130 | Referee's report by Charles Niven, on a paper 'On the induction of electric currents in conducting shells of small thickness' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury | 6 June 1888 |
| EC/1880/14 | Niven, Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/11/431 | Letter from C [Charles] Niven, 45 Sunday's Well Road, Cork, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 4 November 1879 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| MC/12/61 | Letter from C [Charles] Niven, The University Aberdeen, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 8 June 1880 |
| MC/12 | Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1880-1883 |
| RR/12/65 | Referee's report by Charles Niven, on a paper 'The stresses and strains in isotropic elastic solid ellipsoids in equilibrium under bodily forces derivable from a potential of the second degree' by Charles Chree | 10 May 1894 |
| MC/23/326 | Letter from [Charles] Niven, 6 The Chanonry, Old Aberdeen, to the Secretaries, Royal Society | 26 October 1908 |
| NLB/38/688 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor and Archibald Geikie, to Sir Arthur William Rucker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 October 1908 |