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Authorised form of namePope; Sir; William Jackson (1870 - 1939)
Dates1870 - 1939
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth31 March or 31 October 1870
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death17/10/1939
Research fieldOrganic chemistry
ActivityHonours:
KBE 1919
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1902
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1914
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 291-324, plate, by Charles S Gibson
References:
Sir Harold Hartley and D C Martin, 'The Royal Society Club Dinner on 14 November 1968 in Celebration of the 90th Birthday of Sir Harold Hartley, FRS' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 146-155
W van der Kloot, 'April 1915: Five Future Nobel Prize-Winners Inaugurate Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Academic-Industrial-Military Complex' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 149-160
Notes:
DSB gives birth date as 31 October 1870
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/57362261
Royal Society codeNA8272
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
IM/003625Pope, Sir William Jacksonnd
NLB/73/354Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, K.B.E., FRS19 June 1931
RR/16/278Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Hydrolysis of cane-suger by d- and l-camphor-beta-sulphonic acid' by Robert John Caldwell2 July 1904
RR/21/10Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on two papers 'Studies of the processes operative in solutions. XXXI.— Sulphonic acids and sulphuric acid as hydrolytic agents—a discussion of the constitution of sulphuric and other polybasic acids and of the nature of acids' and 'Studies of the processes operative in solutions. XXXII.— The influence of sulphonates on the hydrolytic activity of sulphonic acids: a contribution to the discussion on the influence of neutral salts' by Henry Edward Armstrong and F P Worley11 February 1914
RR/21/153Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on two papers 'Borohydrates.—Part II' and 'Borohydrates.—Part III' by Morris William Travers and others16 June 1914
NLB/56/229Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, FRS18 December 1918
NLB/29/48Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Jackson Pope, Fellow of the Royal Society27 June 1904
NLB/32/510Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]23 March 1906
NLB/34/428Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Jackson Pope, Fellow of the Royal Society, Corchster, Bramhall, Cheshire19 January 1907
NLB/42/550Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] J [Jackson] Pope FRS4 July 1910
NLB/43/44/3Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Jackson Pope, Fellow of the Royal Society27 October 1910
NLB/44/340Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] J [Jackson] Pope FRS20 June 1911
NLB/43/569Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Jackson Pope, Fellow of the Royal Society13 February 1911
NLB/44/696Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] J [Jackson] Pope FRS 24 October 1911
NLB/45/297Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] J [Jackson] Pope FRS7 February 1912
NLB/46/290Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, Fellow of the Royal Society5 July 1912
NLB/53/639Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, FRS15 November 1916
NLB/48/78Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Jackson Pope, Fellow of the Royal Society8 May 1913
NLB/54/769Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, FRS19 September 1917
NLB/50/129Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, Fellow of the Royal Society5 May 1914
NLB/50/234Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, Fellow of the Royal Society25 May 1914
NLB/50/805Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, to Professor William Jackson Pope, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1914
NLB/51/598Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor William Jackson Pope FRS4 May 1915
NLB/52/304Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor William Jackson Pope, FRS6 November 1915
RR/20/148Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'The relation between the crystal-symmetry of the simpler organic compounds and their molecular constitution - Part II' by Walter Wahl30 June 1913
RR/20/63Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'The selective absorption of ketones' by George Gerald Henderson and Ian Morris HeilbronNovember 1913
RR/20/147Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'The relation between the crystal-symmetry of the simpler organic compounds and their molecular constitution - Part III' by Walter Wahl20 September 1913
NLB/54/629Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, FRS9 July 1917
RR/13/100Referee's report by Lazarus Fletcher, on a paper 'Angular measurement of optic axial emergences' by William Jackson Pope15 May 1896
RR/22/123Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'The monoclinic double sulphates containing ammonium. Completion of the double sulphate series' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton23 June 1915
RR/20/143Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Borohydrates part II' by Morris William Travers and Rames Chandra Ray19 May 1913
NLB/54/492Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Sir Henry Frank Heath], Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Great George Street, Westminster, S.W.1 June 1917
NLB/54/819Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, FRS10 October 1917
NLB/56/102Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, FRS21 November 1918
NLB/56/319Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to [Sir Henry Frank Heath], Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Great George Street, Westminster, S.W.14 January 1919
NLB/56/292Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, FRS7 January 1919
RR/28/56Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'The origin of osmotic effects. IV.—Hydronodynamic change in aqueous solutions' by Henry Edward Armstrong30 March 1923
NLB/56/909Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chairman of the Chemistry Committee and FRS24 June 1919
NLB/56/501Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor William [Jackson] Pope, Chairman of the Chemistry Committee and FRS25 February 1919
RR/18/186Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on an unnamed paper by Robert John Strutt20 March 1911
RR/18/172Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'On chemical action induced by cathode rays and canal rays' by Edgar Philip PermanJanuary 1911
NLB/66/926Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, C. M. G. FRS23 September 1924
NLB/56/794Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chairman of the Chemistry Committee and FRS27 May 1919
RR/41/96Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'The n-fatty acids' by Francis Francis, Stephen Harvey Piper and Thomas Malkin1 April 1930
NLB/58/318Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chairman of the Chemistry Committee and FRS20 April 1920
NLB/58/606Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chairman of the Chemistry Committee and FRS28 May 1920
NLB/58/942Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chairman of the Chemistry Committee and FRS7 July 1920
NLB/58/678Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chairman of the Chemistry Committee and FRS3 June 1920
NLB/58/757Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chairman of the Chemistry Committee and FRS15 June 1920
NLB/58/873Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chairman of the Chemistry Committee and FRS28 June 1920
RR/28/58Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Electrolytic conduction: sequel to an attempt (1886) to apply a theory of residual affinity' by Henry Edward Armstrong30 March 1923
RR/20/145Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Ammonium ferrous sulphate and its alkali-metal isomorphs' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton16 March 1913
RR/25/52Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Monoclinic double selenates of the iron group' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton[February 1918]
NLB/60/461Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, FRS10 February 1921
NLB/60/204Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, FRS22 December 1920
NLB/60/607Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, FRS3 March 1921
RR/23/104Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Monoclinic double selenates of the nickel group' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton30 November 1916
NLB/57/344Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson Pope, FRS, KBE]20 October 1919
NLB/57/337Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, FRS, KBE21 October 1919
NLB/57/50Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Pope, FRS, KBE9 July 1919
NLB/57/171Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Pope, FRS, KBE1 August 1919
NLB/57/614Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, FRS16 December 1919
NLB/57/410Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Rector, University of Strasbourg3 November 1919
RR/60/46Referee's report by Robert Robertson, on a paper 'The optically active spiro-5:5-Dihydantoins' by William Jackson Pope and James Bell WhiteworthJanuary 1936
RR/50/120Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Two types of diamond' by Robert Robertson, John Jacob Fox and A E MartinOctober 1933
NLB/57/308Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, FRS13 October 1919
NLB/67/498Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Pope, FRS10 January 1925
NLB/57/737Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, FRS, KBE, Chairman of the Chemistry Sectional Committee30 January 1920
NLB/57/797Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, FRS, KBE9 February 1920
RR/56/48Referee's report by Alexander McKenzie, on a paper 'The symmetrical spiro-heptanediamine and its resolution into optically active components' by Stanley Eric Janson and William Jackson Pope25 November 1935
NLB/55/915Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, FRS25 October 1918
NLB/64/90Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, FRS30 January 1923
NLB/57/399Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary [Sir Frank Heath, KCB], Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Great George Street, SW 131 October 1919
NLB/57/691Copy letter from John M [Millar] Thomson, Chairman of the Library Committee of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS, Chairman of the Sectional Committee of Mathematics16 January 1920
CD/69/31Letter from [William Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society25 November 1918
NLB/66/408Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS3 May 1924
CD/69/25Letter from [William Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society3 October 1917
NLB/69/499Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Pope, FRS12 May 1926
NLB/69/428Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to M. le Secretaire General, Association Italiana di Chimica [Italian Chemistry Association], Via IV November 154, Rome13 April 1926
NLB/69/390Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Pope, FRS25 March 1926
NLB/71/524Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, K.B.E., FRS28 June 1928
NLB/69/760Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Society of Chemical Industry, 46 Finsbury Sqaure, E.C.26 October 1926
NLB/70/918Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Pope, KBE, FRS4 November 1927
RR/60/65Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Further work on two types of diamond' by Robert Robertson, John Jacob Fox and A E Martin2 October 1936
CD/69/37Letter from [William Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society11 January 1919
NLB/72/786Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Pope, KBE, FRS28 April 1930
CD/69/46Copy letter from Ll. [Lloyd] S. Lloyd, to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge24 February 1919
CD/69/47Copy letter from [William Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge, to [Lloyd] S. Lloyd, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research25 February 1919
CD/69/49Copy letter from [William Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Research Department, 15 Great George Street, London2 March 1919
CD/69/48Copy letter from Ll. [Lloyd] S. Lloyd, to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge26 February 1919
CD/69/28Letter from [William Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society21 October 1918
CD/69/24Letter from [William Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society24 March 1917
CD/69/35Letter from [William Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society21 December 1918
CD/69/52Copy letter from H. Frank Heath, to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge7 March 1919
CD/69/43Letter from [William Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society2 March 1919
NLB/66/334Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS10 April 1924
NLB/66/466Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS15 May 1924
EC/1902/15Pope, Sir William Jackson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/20/146Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'The relation between the crystal-symmetry of the simpler organic compounds and their molecular constitution - Part I' by Walter WahlApril 1913
NLB/54/291Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Jackson] Pope, FRS23 March 1917
NLB/54/822Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Research Department; Department of Scientific & Industrial Research10 October 1917
NLB/56New Letter Book volume 56, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration1 November 1918-27 June 1919
RR/26/63Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'The influence of physical conditions on the velocity of decomposition of certain crystalline solids' by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Edmund John Bowen7 March 1921
CD/69/50Copy letter from Ll. [Lloyd] S. Lloyd, to Sir William [Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge3 March 1919
CD/69/51Copy letter from [William Jackson] Pope, Chemical Laboratory, The University, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Research Department, 15 Great George Street, London4 March 1919
NLB/67/101Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS21 October 1924
NLB/39/718Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] H [Henry] Poynting, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physics & Chemistry Sectional Committee26 February 1909
NLB/47/593Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] J [Jackson] Pope FRS28 February 1913
RR/23/73Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Problems bearing on residual affinity' by Percival Spencer Umfreville PickeringNovember 1916
NLB/56/398Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Percy Faraday] Frankland, FRS29 January 1919
NLB/58New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration28 February 1920-9 July 1920
NLB/57/71Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary [Sir Frank Heath, KCB], Scientific and Industrial Research Department11 July 1919
NLB/57/347Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Joseph John Thomson, OM, President of the Royal Society24 October 1919
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
AP/79/1Unpublished paper, 'The origin of certain absorption spectra of certain types of organic compounds' by Nial Patrick McClelandDecember 1913
RR/42/9Referee's report by Jocelyn Field Thorpe, on a paper 'Optically Active Di- and Tetra-methyl-spiro-5: 5-Dihydantoins' by William Jackson Pope and James Bell WhitworthAugust 1931
RR/49/133Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'An optically active arsonic acid possessing molecular dissymmetry. Resolution of dl-spirobis- 3:5-dioxan-4:4'-di (phenyl-p-arsonic acid)' by Charles Stanley Gibson and Barnett Levin[June 1933]
RR/17/424Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'On the spontaneous crystallisation of monochloracetic acid and its mixtures with naphthalene' by Henry Miers and Florence Isaac16 February 1909
RR/18/51Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'On the spontaneous crystallisation and the melting and freezing point curves of mixtures of two substances which from mixed crystals and posses a minimum or eutectic freezing point - Mixtures of azobenzene and benzylaniline' by Florence Isaac5 July 1910
RR/31/23Referee's report by Gilbert Thomas Morgan, on a paper '1: 2: 3—Triaminopropane and its complex metallic compounds' by Frederick George Mann and William Jackson Pope[October 1924]
RR/45/20Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Crystallography of the simpler quinones' by W A Caspari[December 1931]
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