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Authorised form of nameLinnett; John Wilfrid (1913 - 1975)
Dates1913 - 1975
NationalityBritish
Date of birth03/08/1913
Date of death07/11/1975
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1955
Age at election41
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1977 vol 23 pp 311-343, plate, by A D Buckingham
References:
J S Rowlinson, 'The war time work of Hinshelwood and his colleagues' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 161-175
CodeNA976
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1955/16Linnett, John Wilfrid: certificate of election to the Royal Society
HWT/25/7Correspondence and papers regarding premature return to China (due to Cultural Revolution) of Chinese research workers in BritainJanuary - September 1967
RR/62/56Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The absorption spectra and photochemistry of poly­atomic molecules containing alkyl radicals - V—Vibration frequencies and structure' by Harold Warris Thompson and John Wilfrid Linnett[February 1937]
RR/62/55Reply to the referee by Harold Warris Thompson and John Wilfrid Linnett, on a paper 'The absorption spectra and photochemistry of poly­atomic molecules containing alkyl radicals - V—Vibration frequencies and structure' by Harold Warris Thompson and John Wilfrid Linnett[March 1937]
RR/62/52Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of polyatomic molecules containing methyl and ethyl radicals—III' by Harold Warris Thompson and John Wilfrid Linnett[1936]
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