| RefNo | EC/1901/07 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XII, 127 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Macdonald, Hector Munro: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. University Lecturer in Mathematics. Distinguished for original work in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. Author of the following papers: - 'Torsional Strength of a Hollow Shaft' (Proc Camb Phil Soc, viii); 'Self-induction of two Parallel Conductors' (Trans Camb Phil Soc, xv); 'Waves in Canals' (Proc Lond Math Soc, xxv); 'Waves in Canals and on a Sloping Bank' (ibid, xxvii); 'Electrical Distribution on a Conductor bounded by two Spherical Surfaces cutting at any Angle' (ibid, xxvi), and a Note on the same (ibid, xxviii); 'Electrical Distribution induced on an Infinite Plane Disc with a Circular Hole in it' (ibid, xxvii); 'Electrical Distribution on Cones' (Camb Phil Soc Trans, 'Stokes memorial' volume); 'Note on Bessel Functions' (Proc Lond Math soc, xxix); two papers on the Zeroes of the Bessel Functions (ibid, xxix and xxx); 'Zeroes of the Harmonic P(n)^ m (mu) considered as a Function of mu' (ibid, xxxi). |
| Proposers | C Niven; W D Niven; W Burnside; H F Baker; A R Forsyth; E W Hobson; J Larmor; P A MacMahon; G H Bryan; A E H Love; H Lamb; A G Greenhill; A B Basset; M J M Hill; G H Darwin; George Gabriel Stokes |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1351 | Macdonald; Hector Munro (1865 - 1935) | 1865 - 1935 |