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Reference numberEC/1879/19
Previous numbersCert X, 352; A06358
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TitleSchuster, Sir Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationArthur Schuster.
Author or joint author of the following papers
1 Preliminary Experiments on a magnetized Copper wire, (Balfour Stewart and A Schuster Proc RS 1874)
2 On the Absorption spectra of Potassium and Sodium vapour at low temperature (Roscoe & Schuster Proc RS 1874)
3 On Unilateral Conductivity (Phil Mag Oct 1874)
4 Experiments on Electrical Vibrations (Phil Mag Nov 1874)
5 On the nature of the force producing motion of a body exposed to rays of heat and light (Proc RS 1876 and Phil Trans Vol 166)
6 On the presence of oxygen in the Sun (Nature Dec 1877)
Was appointed to take charge of the whole expedition which left England in Feb 1875 to observe the Total Eclipse of the Sun in India and Siam as long as the Expedition remained united, and afterwards of that branch which went to Siam.
The Report of the Expedition was drawn up by Mr J Norman Lockyer and Dr Schuster.
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge. J Clerk Maxwell; James P Joule; Henry E Roscoe; C Schorlemmer; Osborn Reynolds; William Thomson; J Norman Lockyer; William Huggins; E Frankland; J H Gladstone; J W L Glaisher; Fredk Guthrie
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Schuster, Sir Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6483Schuster; Sir; Arthur (1851 - 1934); physicist1851 - 1934
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