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Authorised form of nameAdams; Frank Dawson (1859 - 1942)
Dates1859 - 1942
NationalityCanadian
Place of birthMontreal, Canada
Date of birth17 September 1859
Place of deathMontreal, Canada
Date of death26/12/1942
Research fieldGeology
ActivityEducation:
PhD (Heidelberg); DSc (Montreal)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1907
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 381-393, plate, by J S Fleet
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
Royal Society codeNA768
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
PIF/A/8Personal information file: Frank Dawson Adams1942
IM/000027Adams, Frank Dawsonnd
NLB/21/328Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Frank Dawson Adams, [Fellow of the Royal Society] and Dr J T Nicolson1 November 1900
NLB/21/115Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Frank Dawson Adams and Dr J T Nicholson [John Thomas Nicolson]30 July 1900
NLB/21/91Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society27 July 1900
NLB/44/299Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Frank] D [Dawson] Adams FRS10 June 1911
NLB/35/443Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Frank Dawson Adams, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1907
NLB/35/803Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Frank Dawson Adams, [Fellow of the Royal Society]18 July 1907
NLB/35/819Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]19 July 1907
NLB/47/637Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Frank] D [Dawson] Adams FRS6 March 1913
NLB/54/579Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frank Dawson] Adams, FRS25 June 1917
EC/1907/01Adams, Frank Dawson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/15/1Referee's report by William Chander Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'An experimental investigation into the flow of marble' by Frank Dawson Adams and John Thomas NicolsonJuly 1900
RR/15/2Referee's report by Lazarus Fletcher, on a paper 'An experimental investigation into the flow of marble' by Frank Dawson Adams and John Thomas Nicolson26 July 1900
MC/26/4Letter from Frank [Dawson] Adams, Montreal, to Robert Harrison, [Assistant Secretary], Royal Soicety9 May 1911
MC/28/1Letter from Frank [Dawson] Adams, Faculty of Applied Science, McGill University, Montreal, [Quebeck], to Professor Arthur Schuster, Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W, England1 April 1913
MC/32/2Letter from Frank [Dawson] Adams, McGill University, Faculty of Applied Science, Montreal, to Robert [William Frederick] Harrison, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W21 August 1917
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