| Authorised form of name | James; William Owen (1900 - 1978) |
| Dates | 1900 - 1978 |
| Date of birth | 21/05/1900 |
| Date of death | 15/09/1978 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1952 |
| Age at election | 51 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1979 vol 25 pp 337-364, plate, by A R Clapham and J L Harley |
| Code | NA1915 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/56/15 | W O James, Raybourne, Islip, Oxford to Brown | 16 June 1956 |
| EC/1952/09 | James, William Owen: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WS/4264 | James, William Owen | 1952 |
| RR/37/82 | Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respiration. XIX.-The effect of variations of carbon dioxide supply upon the rate of assimilation of submerged water plants' by William Owen James | February 1928 |
| RR/78/83 | Referee's report by Frederick Gugenheim Gregory, on a paper 'The terminal oxidases in the respiration of the embryos and young roots of barley' by William Owen James | 5 January 1953 |