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Authorised form of nameGowland; William (1842 - 1922)
Dates1842 - 1922
Date of birth16 December 1842
Date of death10/06/1922
ActivityMemberships:
FCS; FIC
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1908
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1922-1923 vol 102 pp xvi-xix, plate, signed by W A T
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1922-1923 vol 94 pp xl-xliii, plate, signed by W A T
CodeNA8177
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1908/07Gowland, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/32/591Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Gowland10 April 1906
NLB/37/589Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] Gowland10 April 1908
NLB/37/871Copy Letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] Barlow, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1908
IM/001728Gowland, William1922
NLB/63/18Copy letter from Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, President of the Royal Society; to Miss Catherine Gowland15 June 1922
RR/20/152Referee's report by William Gowland, on a paper 'A method of avoiding inaccuracy due to weight errors in fixing a gold coinage standard trial plate' by O WatkinsFebruary 1914
NLB/63/34Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Augustus] Tilden, FRS16 June 1922
NLB/63/444Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Tilden, FRS, The Oaks, Northwood, Middlesex14 October 1922
NLB/37/768Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] Gowland, Fellow of the Royal Society11 May 1908
NLB/43/491Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Gowland, Fellow of the Royal Society27 January 1911
NLB/45/729Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] Gowland FRS30 April 1912
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