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Authorised form of nameTwyman; Frank (1876 - 1959)
Dates1876 - 1959
Date of birth17 November 1876
Date of death06/03/1959
ActivityCareer:
Managing Director, Messrs Adam Hilger & Co, Scientific Instrument Makers
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/05/1924
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1959 vol 5 pp 269-279, plate, by A C Menzies
CodeNA706
Archives associated with this Fellow
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PB/4/8/48Correspondence with Frank Twyman1942
EC/1924/15Twyman, Frank: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/47/24Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'The modes of vibration of quartz piezo-electric plates as revealed by an interferometer' by William David DyeJune 1932
RR/43/46Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'The colorimetric properties of the spectrum' by J GuildFebruary 1931
RR/60/57Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'A study of glass surfaces in optical contact' by Robert John Strutt, Lord RayleighJune 1936
RR/44/44Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'A vacuum spectrometer for long wave-length X-rays' by R T W BinghamJune 1931
RR/44/111Second referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'Determination of the yard in wave-lengths of light' by Alfred Edwin Howard TuttonJuly 1931
RR/49/97Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'On particle size and concentration in opal glasses II' by C Dunbar[May 1933]
RR/44/110Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'Determination of the yard in wave-lengths of light' by Alfred Edwin Howard TuttonApril 1931
RR/46/110Referee's report by John Cunningham McLennan, on a paper 'A new apparatus for rapid spectrophotometry of liquids in the ultra-violet region' by Frank Twyman[July 1932]
RR/49/99Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'On particle size and concentration in opal glasses I' by C Dunbar30 May 1933
RR/50/92Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'A spectrographic investigation of the metallic content of the liver in childhood' by Hugh Ramage and J H Sheldon5 May 1933
RR/55/128Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'Quantitative spectrographic analysis of biological material. I-A method for the determination of lead in cerebrospinal fluid' by John Stuart Foster, G O Langstroth and D R McRaeAugust 1935
RR/69/210Referee's report by Frank Tywman, on a paper 'Krypton vacuum wave-length measurements' by T A Littlefield1945
NLB/68/668Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Frank] Twyman Esq., FRS8 October 1925
NLB/68/755Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Frank] Twyman Esq., FRS30 October 1925
NLB/72/30Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Frank] Twyman Esq., FRS25 January 1929
NLB/72/848Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Frank] Twyman Esq., FRS; Messrs Adam Hilger, Ltd.27 May 1930
RR/57/41Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'On experimental and theoretical problems of photography I and II' by J E P Wagstaff and W A Prowse[March 1935]
RR/50/91Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'A spectrographic investigation of the metallic content of the liver in childhood' by Hugh Ramage and J H Sheldon13 April 1933
RR/46/111Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'A new apparatus for rapid spectrophotometry of liquids in the ultra-violet region' by Frank Twyman[June 1932]
RR/64/13Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'Quantitative spectrographic analysis of biological material. III. A method for the determination of sodium and potassium in glandular secretions' by John Stuart Foster, G O Langstroth and D R McRae[December 1937]
RR/46/101Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'A new apparatus for determining the relationship between wave-lengths of light and the fundamental standards of length' by J E Sears and H Barrell[March 1932]
RR/64/16Referee's report by Frank Twyman, on a paper 'Quantitative spectrographic analysis of biological material-II' by John Stuart Foster and C A Horton[April 1937]
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