| Authorised form of name | McDougall; William (1871 - 1938) |
| Dates | 1871 - 1938 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Chadderton, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 22 June 1871 |
| Place of death | Durham, North Carolina, USA |
| Date of death | 28/11/1938 |
| Research field | Psychology |
| Physiology |
| Activity | Education:
MD (Camb); MA; DSc
Career:
Ex-Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; Wilde Lecturer in Psychology, University of Oxford
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/05/1912 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 39-62, plate, by Major Greenwood and May Smith
References:
P Lovie and A D Lovie, 'Charles Edward Spearman, FRS (1863-1945)' in NR 1996 vol 50 pp 75-88 |
| Royal Society code | NA7996 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| NLB/42/245 | Copy letter from John Rose Bradford, Secretary RS [Secretary of the Royal Society] to Sir H Llewellyn Smith, KBC, Permanent Secretary, Marine Department of the Board of Trade, 7 Whitehall Gardens, SW | 29 April 1910 |
| NLB/45/787 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [William] McDougall FRS | 8 May 1912 |
| NLB/45/793 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [William] McDougall FRS | 13 May 1912 |
| NLB/50/504 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [William] McDougall, Fellow of the Royal Society | 21 July 1914 |
| RR/21/126 | Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'The influence of timbre and loudness on the localisation of sounds' by Charles Samuel Myers | [July 1914] |
| RR/36/54 | Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On the measurability of intensities of sensation' by Lewis Fry Richardson | [March 1928] |
| RR/36/53 | Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On trying-to-think imagery and conductance' by Lewis Fry Richardson | [March 1928] |
| RR/20/19 | Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On light-sensations and the theory of forced vibrations' by George James Burch | May 1913 |
| EC/1912/08 | McDougall, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |