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Authorised form of nameKerr; John (1824 - 1907)
Dates1824 - 1907
NationalityBritish
Place of birthArdrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland
Date of birth17 December 1824
Place of deathGlasgow
Date of death18/08/1907
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
Village school, Skye; University of Glasgow. LLD
Career:
Studied under William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin (FRS 1851); ordained as a minister, Free Church of Scotland, but did not take up duties; Lecturer in Mathematics, Glasgow Free Church Training College for Teachers (1857-1901)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1890
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1898
RelationshipsSecond son of Thomas Kerr, fish dealer; married Marion, daughter of Colonel Balfour of Orkney
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1909 vol 82 pp i-v signed by A Gr
Royal Society codeNA7122
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1890/06Kerr, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/4/727Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Reverend Dr John Kerr, Isaac Roberts, Jethro Justinian Harris Teall, Richard Thorne Thorne, and Walter Frank Raphael Weldon9 October 1890
NLB/13/519Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Reverend Dr John Kerr, Fellow of the Royal Society2 October 1896
NLB/17/627Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Kerr, [Fellow of the Royal Society]28 November 1898
PP/23/17Printed proof, 'Experiments on a fundamental question in electro-optics: Reduction of relative retardations to absolute' by John Kerr1894
NLB/17/505Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr John Kerr, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1898
NLB/17/456Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Lieutenant Colonel the Right Honourable Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards3 November 1898
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
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