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Authorised form of nameMcDougall; William (1871 - 1938)
Dates1871 - 1938
NationalityBritish
Place of birthChadderton, Lancashire, England
Date of birth22 June 1871
Place of deathDurham, North Carolina, USA
Date of death28/11/1938
Research fieldPsychology
Physiology
ActivityEducation:
MD (Camb); MA; DSc
Career:
Ex-Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; Wilde Lecturer in Psychology, University of Oxford
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1912
SourceSources:
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
CodeNA7996
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/42/245Copy 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, SW29 April 1910
NLB/45/787Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [William] McDougall FRS8 May 1912
NLB/45/793Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [William] McDougall FRS13 May 1912
NLB/50/504Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [William] McDougall, Fellow of the Royal Society21 July 1914
RR/20/19Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On light-sensations and the theory of forced vibrations' by George James BurchMay 1913
RR/36/54Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On the measurability of intensities of sensation' by Lewis Fry Richardson[March 1928]
RR/36/53Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On trying-to-think imagery and conductance' by Lewis Fry Richardson[March 1928]
RR/21/126Referee'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]
EC/1912/08McDougall, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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