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Authorised form of nameWilson; Harold Albert (1874 - 1964); physicist
Dates1874 - 1964
Place of birthYork, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth01 December 1874
Place of deathHouston, Texas, USA
Date of death13/10/1964
Research fieldPhysics
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/05/1906
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB vol 18 pp 992-993
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1965 vol 11 pp 187-201, plate, by G P Thomson
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/30317213
Royal Society codeNA1223
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
NLB/38/627Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor [Harold Albert] Wilson, Fellow of the Royal Society13 October 1908
RR/15/286Referee's report by William Augustus Tilden, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity of air and salt vapours' by Harold Albert Wilson26 March 1901
RR/16/243Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'On the electric effect of rotating a dielectric in a magnetic field' by Harold Albert Wilson25 May 1904
RR/15/287Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity of air and salt vapours' by Harold Albert WilsonApril 1901
RR/17/81Referee's report by Harold Albert Wilson, on a paper 'The ionisation produced by hot platinum in different gases' by Owen Willans Richardson20 July 1906
RR/16/137Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'On the discharge of electricity from hot Platinum' by Dr H A WilsonJune 1903
RR/16/242Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'On the electric effect of rotating a dielectric in a magnetic field' by Harold Albert Wilson22 May 1904
RR/16/136Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'On the discharge of electricity from hot Platinum' by Harold Albert WilsonJune 1903
RR/17/54Referee's report by Harold Albert Wilson, on a paper 'On the discharge of negative electricity from hot calcium and from lime' by Frank Horton[January 1907]
NLB/17/483Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Smithells, [Fellow of the Royal Society], North Grange Road, Headingley, Leeds8 November 1898
NLB/18/802Copy letter from Michael Foster, to H A Wilson16 May 1899
NLB/35/382Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Harold Albert Wilson and G H Martyn[27] May 1907
NLB/63/891Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Harold Albert] Wilson, FRS17 January 1923
NLB/32/747Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons][19 May 1906]
NLB/37/23Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [Joseph] Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society10 January 1908
NLB/39/812Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Professor H [Harold] A [Albert] Wilson, Fellow of the Royal Society19 March 1909
NLB/39/402Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Harold] A [Albert] Wilson, Fellow of the Royal Society19 January 1909
NLB/40/830Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons8 September 1909
NLB/41/760Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Harold Albert Wilson, Fellow of the Royal Society23 February 1910
RR/22/131Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'The electrical conducting and luminosity of flames containing salt vapours' by Harold Albert WilsonJune 1915
RR/17/230Referee's report by Harold Albert Wilson, on a paper 'On the electrification of anticathode reflections under cathode ray bombardment' by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton[April 1907]
RR/22/132Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'The electrical conducting and luminosity of flames containing salt vapours' by Harold Albert WilsonAugust 1915
RR/29/72Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'An experiment on the origin of the earth's magnetic field' by Harold Albert WilsonAugust 1923
RR/29/71Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'An experiment on the origin of the earth's magnetic field' by Harold Albert WilsonAugust 1923
RR/37/151Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'Chemical equilibrium in the vapour of a mixture of paraffins and unsaturated hydrocarbons' by Harold Albert WilsonJune 1928
NLB/61/329Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Albert] Wilson, FRS21 June 1921
RR/37/153Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The Saha theory and the conducting of flames containing alkali metal vapours' by Harold Albert WilsonFebruary 1928
RR/40/121Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'The theory of cracking petroleum' by Harold Albert WilsonFebruary 1929
RR/17/330Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The perception of the direction of sound' by Charles Samuel Myers and Harold Albert WilsonJanuary 1908
RR/17/356Referee's report by Harold Albert Wilson, on a paper 'The mobilities of the ions produced by Röntegen rays in gases and vapours' by E M WellischJanuary 1909
RR/28/38Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'On the scattering of ß-rays' by Harold Albert Wilson27 May 1922
RR/17/364Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The effect of hydrogen on the discharge of negative electricity from hot platinum' by Harold Albert Wilson16 March 1908
RR/14/278Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'On the electrical conductivity of flames containing salt vapours' by Harold Albert Wilsonnd [March 1899]
RR/17/363Referee's report by Henry Cabourn Pocklington, on a paper 'The effect of hydrogen on the discharge of negative electricity from hot platinum' by Harold Albert WilsonFebruary 1908
RR/52/133Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'The x and b rays of radioactinium' by Harold Albert WilsonOctober 1934
RR/46/119Referee's report by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, on a paper 'Chemical equilibrium in vapour of a mixture of hydrocarbons' by Harold Albert Wilson[December 1932]
RR/52/131Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The x and b rays of radioactinium' by Harold Albert WilsonDecember 1934
RR/51/142Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'The energies of alpha and gamma rays' by Harold Albert Wilson[January 1934]
RR/52/130Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'The energies of alpha, beta, and gamma rays' by Harold Albert WilsonJuly 1934
RR/52/128Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'The energies of alpha, beta, and gamma rays' by Harold Albert WilsonFebruary 1934
RR/51/141Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'On the Y rays of radium C' by Harold Albert Wilson[October 1933]
RR/52/129Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'The energies of alpha, beta, and gamma rays' by Harold Albert WilsonJuly 1934
RR/36/96Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'Chemical equilibrium in a mixture of paraffins' by Harold Albert Wilson[April 1927]
RR/57/60Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'The energies of alpha and gamma rays' by Harold Albert Wilson[February 1935]
RR/57/59Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'The structure of atomic nuclei' by Harold Albert Wilson[October 1935]
RR/62/100Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'The calculation of atomic weights from nuclear reaction energies' by Harold Albert Wilson[January 1936]
NLB/62/906Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Albert] Wilson, FRS1 June 1922
NLB/64/190Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Albert] Wilson, FRS22 February 1923
NLB/65/175Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to J. F. Dugger, Jr., Esq.; Hope Hull, Alabama, USA8 September 1923
NLB/65/103Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS31 July 1923
IM/004959Wilson, Harold Albert1954
NLB/34/122Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor [Harold Albert] Wilson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]1 December 1906
RR/36/97Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The emission of light by flames containing sodium and the absorption of light by mercury vapour' by Harold Albert Wilson[December 1927]
RR/57/58Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'The energies of nuclear reactions' by Harold Albert Wilson[July 1935]
NLB/65/140Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS10 August 1923
EC/1906/14Wilson, Harold Albert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/14/277Referee's report by William Augustus Tilden, on a paper 'On the electrical conductivity of flames containing salt vapours' by Harold Albert Wilsonnd [March 1899]
NLB/64/712Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh7 June 1923
RR/14/93Referee's report by William Augustus Tilden, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity and luminosity of flames containing vaporised salts' by Arthur Smithells, Harry Medforth Dawson and Harold Albert Wilson21 November 1898
RR/14/94Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity and luminosity of flames containing vaporised salts' by Arthur Smithells, Harry Medforth Dawson and Harold Albert Wilson24 November 1898
RR/14/279Committee report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the electrical conductivity of flames containing salt vapours' by Harold Albert Wilson8 April 1899
RR/17/406Referee's report by Harold Albert Wilson, on a paper 'On a new kind of glow from palladium in vacuum tubes' by H V GillMay 1909
RR/28/37Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The motion of electrons in gases' by Harold Albert Wilson[January 1923]
RR/28/39Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The theory of diffusion viscosity and thermal conductivity of gases' by Harold Albert Wilson[January 1923]
RR/51/140Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'On the B rays of radium C' by Harold Albert Wilson[November 1933]
MC/24/211Letter from [Harold Albert] Wilson, 8 The Pryors, Hampstead, NW, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]23 April 1909
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
RR/77/78Referee's report by Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, on a paper 'The spherical shell nuclear model' by Harold Albert Wilson19 June 1952
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
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