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Authorised form of nameSimpson; George Gaylord (1902 - 1984)
Dates1902 - 1984
Date of birth16/06/1902
Date of death06/10/1984
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election24/04/1958
Age at election55
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Darwin Medal 1962
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1986 vol 32 pp 525-539, plate, by H B Whittington
CodeNA666
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1958/28Simpson, George Gaylord: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/004203Simpson, George Gaylord1996
RR/17/436Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On the electricity of rain and its origin in thunderstorms' by George Clarke Simpson14 April 1909
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