| Authorised form of name | Series; George William (1920 - 1995) |
| Dates | 1920 - 1995 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 22/02/1920 |
| Date of death | 02/01/1995 |
| Activity | Education:
St Mary's School, Basingstoke; Reading School (1934-1938); St John's College, Oxford (entered 1938, Mathematics and Physics); DPhil (after 1945)
Career:
Was a Pacifist, so undertook Air Raid relief work, London, then joined the Friends Ambulance Unit and served in the Middle East, Italy and former Yugoslavia (World War II); research in optical spectroscopy, under H G Kuhn (FRS 1954); University Lecturer in Physics, Oxford (1951); Tutorial Fellow, St Edmund's Hall, Oxford (1953-1968); Emeritus Fellow (1969); Professor of Physics, Reading University (1968-1982); took early retirement (1982)
Memberships:
Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society (1972); Fellow, American Physical Society (1975); Fellow, Optical Society of America (1975); Honorary Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (1984)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1971 |
| Age at election | 51 |
| Source | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 61/4/96. Papers deposited in the Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Reading University Library
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1996 vol 42 pp 385-398, plate, by Brebis Bleaney |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/92565599 |
| Code | NA5989 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/GRS/5914 | Series, George William | nd |
| EC/1971/26 | Series, George William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/75/77 | Referee's report by Derek Ainslie Jackson, on a paper 'The fine structure of the hydrogen a line' by George William Series | 15 March 1951 |
| RR/73/32 | Referee's report by Paul Dirac, on a paper 'The fine structure of hydrogen alpha line' by Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn and George William Series | 6 February 1950 |
| RR/75/78 | Letter from Derek Ainslie Jackson, on a paper 'The fine structure of the hydrogen a line' by George William Series, to D C Martin | 6 April 1951 |