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Authorised form of nameBates; Sir; David Robert (1916 - 1994)
Dates1916 - 1994
NationalityBritish
Date of birth18/11/1916
Date of death05/01/1994
ActivityHonours:
Kt 1978
Memberships:
FRAS (1947)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1955
Age at election38
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1970
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1997 vol 43 pp 47-71, plate, by Alexander Dalgarno
References:
W Hayes, 'Physics as well as poetry. Physicists of Ireland, edited by M McCartney and A Whitaker' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 245-246
CodeNA6512
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1955/01Bates, Sir David Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/000290Bates, Sir David Robert1970
IM/GA/WRS/8726Bates, Sir David Robertc 1960
RR/70/20Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The basic reactions in the upper atmosphere II. The theory of recombination in the ionized layers' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey14 March 1947
RR/69/17Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The basic reactions in the upper atmosphere. I' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey17 December 1945
RR/71/30Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The emission of the negative system of nitrogen from the upper atmosphere and the significance of the twilight flash in the theory of the ionosphere' by David Robert Bates16 October 1948
RR/69/16Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The quantal calculation of the photo-ionization cross-section of atomic potassium' by David Robert BatesMarch 1946
RR/71/29Referee's report by Alfred Gordon Gaydon, on a paper 'The emission of the negative system of nitrogen from the upper atmosphere and the significance of the twilight flash in the theory of the ionosphere' by David Robert Bates[1948]
RR/71/31Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The calculation of the absolute strengths of spectral lines' by David Robert Bates and Agnete Damgaard[1948]
RR/71/28Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The intensity distribution in the nitrogen band systems emitted from the earth’s upper atmosphere' by David Robert Bates[1948]
RR/71/27Referee's report by Alfred Gordon Gaydon, on a paper 'The intensity distribution in the nitrogen band systems emitted from the earth’s upper atmosphere' by David Robert Bates[1948]
RR/67/15Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'Exchange effects in the theory of the continuous absorption of light' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey September 1940
RR/73/11Referee's report by Robert Ernest Davies, on a paper 'Excitation and ionization of atoms by electron impact. II. The Born and Oppenheimer approximations - Comparison with experiment' by David Robert Bates, A Fundaminsky and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey[March 1950]
RR/65/179Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'Dissociation, recombination and attachment processes in the upper atmosphere II. The rate of recombination' by Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, David Robert Bates, R A Buckingham and J J UnwinOctober 1938
RR/68/7Referee's report by Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'The negative ions of atomic and molecular oxygen' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey31 December 1941
RR/68/8Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The negative ions of atomic and molecular oxygen' by David Robert Bates and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey[1941]
RR/71/32Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The calculation of the absolute strengths of spectral lines' by David Robert Bates and Agnete Damgaard[1948]
RR/73/12Referee's report by Paul Dirac, on a paper 'Excitation and ionization of atoms by electron impact. II. The Born and Oppenheimer approximations - Comparison with experiment' by David Robert Bates, A Fundaminsky and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey1950
RR/73/10Referee's report by Paul Dirac, on a paper 'Excitation and ionization of atoms by electron impact. I. The Born and Oppenheimer approximations - General theory' by David Robert Bates, A Fundaminsky and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey1950
RR/73/9Referee's report by Robert Ernest Davies, on a paper 'Excitation and ionization of atoms by electron impact. I. The Born and Oppenheimer approximations - General theory' by David Robert Bates, A Fundaminsky and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey[March 1950]
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