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Reference numberEC/1930/09
Previous numbersCert XIV, 87; A03867
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TitleSpencer Jones, Sir Harold: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionDate stamp on reverse
CitationAuthor of many papers in Monthly Notices, Royal Astronomical Society and elsewhere, mainly on Astronomy, but also on Optics and Terrestrial Magnetism, including Discussion of Latitude Observations at Greenwich with Determination of Aberration Constant; Discussion of 40 years' Observations of Occultations at the Cape with Determination of Elements of the Moon's Orbit and the Solar Parallax; Determination of elements of Orbit of Mars and of Solar Parallax from observations at the opposition of 1924; Determination of Photographic Magnitude Scale for Brighter Stars of North Polar Sequence; Theory of Astronomical Interferometer Measures. Author of 'General Astronomy.'
ProposersF W Dyson; A S Eddington; P A MacMahon; H H Turner; H F Newall; J W L Glaisher; A Fowler; J W Nicholson; R A Sampson; Rayleigh; E W Brown
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Spencer Jones, Sir Harold: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA3379Spencer Jones; Sir; Harold (1890 - 1960); astronomer1890 - 1960
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