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Authorised form of nameSeries; George William (1920 - 1995)
Dates1920 - 1995
NationalityBritish
Date of birth22/02/1920
Date of death02/01/1995
ActivityEducation:
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)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1971
Age at election51
SourceAssocMaterial:
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 Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/92565599
CodeNA5989
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/GRS/5914Series, George Williamnd
EC/1971/26Series, George William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/73/32Referee's report by Paul Dirac, on a paper 'The fine structure of hydrogen alpha line' by Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn and George William Series6 February 1950
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