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Authorised form of nameFarren; Sir; William Scott (1892 - 1970)
Dates1892 - 1970
Date of birth03 April 1892
Date of death03/07/1970
ActivityHonours:
MBE 1918; CB 1943; Kt 1952
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election22/03/1945
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1971 vol 17 pp 215-241, plate, by G P Thomson and A A Hall
CodeNA872
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/WRS/8373Farren, Sir William Scottnd
IM/GA/WRS/8373/EFarren, Sir William Scottnd
NLB/67/531Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Geoffrey Ingram] Taylor, FRS16 January 1925
NLB/67/244Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS20 November 1924
IM/GA/WS/3544Farren, Sir William Scottnd
IM/GA/WRS/8373/FFarren, Sir William Scottnd
PB/1/33/2Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society1956
EC/1945/02Farren, Sir William Scott: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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