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Authorised form of nameOdling; William (1829 - 1921)
Dates1829 - 1921
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSouthwark, London, England
Date of birth05 September 1829
Place of deathOxford
Date of death17/02/1921
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityEducation:
MB (Lond)
Career:
Professor of Practical Chemistry, Guy's Hospital, London; Officer of Health, Lambeth
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1859
RelationshipsSon-in-law of Alfred Smee (FRS 1841)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (MP); DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1921-1922 vol 100 pp i-vii, plate, signed by H B D
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/54262322
CodeNA820
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1859/09Odling, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/427/26Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. H. Smith, a copy also sent to Prof. [William Henry] Flower and Prof. [William] Odling19 January 1880
NLB/10/214Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Odling, Fellow of the Royal Society, Museum, Oxford23 October 1894
NLB/10/246Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to W Fisher, 5 St Margaret's Road, Oxford31 October 1894
NLB/10/127Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Odling, Fellow of the Royal Society, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford4 October 1894
NLB/10/244Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to W W Fisher, 5 St Margaret's Road, Oxford30 October 1894
NLB/10/115Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Robarts, Lubbock & Company, 15 Lombard Street, E.C.2 October 1894
NLB/13/517Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Robarts, Lubbock & Company 2 October 1896
NLB/13/545Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth, Professor William Odling, and Dr John Rose Bradford, Fellows of the the Royal Society5 October 1896
NLB/17/315Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Odling, Fellow of the Royal Society7 October 1898
NLB/17/294Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Robarts, Lubbock & Company[4 October 1898]
NLB/46/793Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr William Odling, Fellow of the Royal Society4 November 1912
NLB/56/841Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Dr. [William] Odling, FRS2 June 1919
RR/7/206Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'On the normal paraffins' by Carl Schorlemmer13 June 1872
RR/7/156Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry on the action of electricity on gases. - I. On the action of electricity on oxygen' by Benjamin Collins Brodie10 October 1872
RR/7/421Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'Researches upon the specific volumes of liquids' by Thomas Edward Thorpe7 August 1875
NLB/60/533Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Charles Scott] Sherrington, President of the Royal Society19 February 1921
NLB/61/661Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS4 October 1921
NLB/8/323Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Odling, Fellow of the Royal Society, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford2 October 1893
NLB/8/420Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Odling, Fellow of the Royal Society23 October 1893
RR/9/82Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'On the effects of heat on certain haloid compounds of silver, mercury, lead, and copper' by G F Rodwell1 November 1882
RR/6/257Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'Researches on vanadium. —Part II' by Henry Enfield Roscoe14 September 1869
RR/6/129Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'Researches on acids of the lactic series.—No. 1. Synthesis of acids of the lactic series' by Edward Frankland and Baldwin Francis Duppa19 March 1866
RR/8/233Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'Revision of the atomic weight of aluminum' by John William Mallet23 April 1880
RR/8/337Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'On the coefficients of expansion of the di-iodide of lead, PbI2, and of an alloy of iodide of lead with iodide of silver, PbI2.AgI' by G F Rodwell and Alexander William Williamson15 June 1881
RR/6/128Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'Synthetical Researches on ethers.— No. 1. Synthesis of ethers from acetic ether' by Edward Frankland and Baldwin Francis Duppa18 January 1866
RR/7/233Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'Researches on the atomic weight of thallium' by William Crookes15 January 1873
RR/6/30Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'The calculus of chemical operations being a method for the investigation, by means of symbols, of the laws of the distribution of weight in chemical change. — Part I. On the construction of chemical symbols' by Benjamin Collins Brodie23 October 1866
RR/7/289Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'On the action of electricity on gases. Part II - On the electric decomposition of carbonic-acid gas' by Benjamin Collins Brodie5 January 1874
MC/8/219Letter from Wm [William] Odling, St Bartholomew's Hospital, to Dr [William] Sharpey 17 June 1868
MC/8/229Letter from W [William] Odling, Chemical Society, to the Royal Society17 June 1868
MC/8/218Letter from Wm [William] Odling, Chemical Society, to Dr [William] Sharpey 13 June 1868
AP/64/15Unpublished paper, 'The induction of the explosive wave and an altered gaseous condition in an explosive gaseous mixture by a vibratory movement' by Lewis Thompson Wright1887
RR/7/108Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry into the constitution of blood and the nutrition of muscular tissue' by William Marcet2 October 1871
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
AP/64/15/1Unpublished manuscript, 'The induction of the explosive wave and an altered gaseous condition in an explosive gaseous mixture by a vibratory movement' by Lewis Thompson Wright1887
PP/15/2Paper, 'Researches on the chemistry of the camphoric acids' by J E [James Ernest] Marsh1889
PP/20/4Paper, 'The conditions of the formation and decomposition of nitrous acid' by Victor Herbert Veley1892
RR/5/244Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'On the synthesis of tribasic acids' by Maxwell Simpson27 June 1865
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