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Authorised form of nameNewall; Hugh Frank (1857 - 1944); astrophysicist
Dates1857 - 1944
NationalityBritish
Place of birthFerndene, Gateshead, County Durham, England
Date of birth21 June 1857
Place of deathMadingley Rise, Cambridge, England
Date of death22 February 1944
Dates and placesBurial:
St Giles' cemetery, now Ascension Cemetery, Cambridge, England.
OccupationAstrophysicist
Research fieldSpectroscopy
Astrophysics
ActivityEducation:
Rugby School (1872–1876); Trinity College, Cambridge (1876); MA
Career:
Assistant master at Wellington College (1881-1884); personal assistant to Joseph John Thomson FRS 1884 and demonstrator in experimental physics at the Cavendish Laboratory (1886); senior demonstrator, especially interested in laboratory spectroscopy (1887); Professor of Astrophysics, Cambridge (1909-1928); Director of the Solar Physic Observatory (1913).
Memberships:
RAS (President 1907–1909)
Cambridge Philosophical Society (President 1914–16)
International Astronomical Union (VP 1925)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1902
Age at election45
ProposerRichard Tetley Glazebrook; William Henry Mahoney Christie; James Francis Tennant; Arthur Alcock Rambaut
Andrew Ainslie Common; David Gill; William Huggins; Robert Stawell Ball; George Gabriel Stokes; George Howard Darwin; Joseph Larmor; Herbert Hall Turner
RelationshipsParents: Robert Stirling Newall FRS 1875 (1812–1889), engineer, and Mary, daughter of Hugh Lee Pattinson FRS (1796–1858), metallurgical chemist and astronomer.
Spouse: 1) Susannah Margaret (1850–1930), (21 June 1881); 2) Dame Bertha Surtees Phillpotts (1877–1932), (June 1931 )
Published worksRCN 22361
General contextContributed to stellar and solar spectroscopy.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 717-732, plate, by E A Milne
References:
Sir Brian Pippard, FRS, 'Schoolmaster-Fellows and the campaign for science education' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 63-81, plate
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/15534313
Royal Society codeNA1729
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
IM/003251Newall, Hugh Franknd
EC/1902/13Newall, Hugh Frank: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/003252Newall, Hugh Franknd
MS/377/1/87Letter from Hugh Frank Newall, 4 High Street, Lowestoft, to [William Fletcher] Barrett27 December 1889
NLB/34/130Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society3 December 1906
RR/21/61Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The effect of pressure upon arc spectra No.5 Nickel' by W Geoffrey Duffield22 June 1914
NLB/9/42Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Mr Hugh Frank Newall16 March 1894
NLB/9/34Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Edward Singleton Holden, Director of Lick Observatory16 March 1894
NLB/14/316Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge15 February 1897
NLB/14/368Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge 24 February 1897
RR/17/76Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'Report of private expedition to Philippeville, Algeria, to view the total eclipse of the sun, August 30, 1905' by T C Porter and W P Colfox10 January 1907
NLB/24/824Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society, Madingley Rise, Cambridge17 July 1902
RR/16/265Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'On the enhanced lines of iron, titanium and nickel' by Frank E Baxandall29 January 1905
RR/17/30Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'Determinations of wave-length from spectra obtained at the total solar eclipses of 1900, 1901 and 1905' by Frank Watson Dyson11 May 1906
RR/17/57Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'On the total solar eclipse, August 30, 1905' by Joseph Norman Lockyer3 July 1906
NLB/26/476Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to, [Hugh Frank] Newall, [Fellow of the Royal Society]27 March 1903
RR/16/160Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'On the Ultra violet spectrum of Gadolinium' by William Crookes29 December 1904
NLB/23/1/357Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Madingley Rise, Cambridge30 October 1901
NLB/25/693Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, [Fellow of the Royal Society]10 December 1902
NLB/24/808Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Bray Kempe, Treasurer of the Royal Society15 July 1902
NLB/25/687Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, [Fellow of the Royal Society]9 December 1902
NLB/29/726Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society1 December 1904
NLB/31/793Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society15 November 1905
MC/21/453Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison24 March 1906
NLB/33/428Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society, Medal Claims29 August 1906
NLB/32/507Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society22 March 1906
NLB/36/123Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Hugh Frank Newall, [Fellow of the Royal Society]19 August 1907
NLB/33/439Copy letter from A H White for Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr James Whitbread Lea Glaiser, Hugh Frank Newall and Sir Andrew Noble, Fellows of the Royal Society30 August 1906
NLB/36/233Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society25 September 1907
NLB/35/161Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1907
NLB/35/306Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society14 May 1907
NLB/36/299Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Mr Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society9 October 1907
NLB/34/629Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society18 February 1907
NLB/36/423Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee28 October 1907
NLB/37/58Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Huggins KCB, OM, FRS17 January 1908
NLB/37/637Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] M [Mitchinson] Hicks, Fellow of the Royal Society23 April 1908
NLB/37/640Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J Larmor, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary of the Royal Society23 April 1908
NLB/42/76Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Hugh] F [Frank] Newall FRS 21 March 1910
NLB/44/432Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Hugh] F [Frank] Newall FRS 10 July 1911
NLB/43/719Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society18 March 1911
NLB/48/345Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Hugh Frank] Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1913
NLB/58/210Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS27 March 1920
RR/19/65Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The relation of the personal factor to the estimation of 60 by the spectroscope' by Hamilton Hartridge[August 1912]
NLB/56/492Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, Chairman of the Solar Research Committee and FRS21 February 1919
NLB/65/296Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS8 October 1923
NLB/56/791Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, Chairman of the Solar Research Committee and FRS23 May 1919
RR/17/273Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The effect of pressure upon arc spectra. No. 2 - copper' by W G Duffield[September 1908]
NLB/64/20Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS18 January 1923
RR/17/393Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The effect of pressure upon arc spectra. No. 3. -silver' by Geoffrey Duffield28 January 1909
RR/17/325Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The nature of the streamers in the electric spark' by Samuel Roslington MilnerApril 1908
NLB/60/544Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS21 February 1921
NLB/57/259Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor HF [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRSAugust 1919
NLB/60/720Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS19 March 1921
RR/17/156Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The effect of pressure upon arc spectra. No. 1. Iron' by W Geoffrey Duffield[August 1907]
RR/17/175Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of the vapours of benzene and its homolognes, at different temperatures and pressures, and of solutions of benzene' by Walter Noel Hartley[October 1907]
RR/24/37Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The ultra-violet band of ammonia, and its occurrence in the solar spectrum' by Alfred Fowler and C C L Gregory[March 1918]
NLB/57/325Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor HF [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS17 October 1919
MC/34/137Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Johnston Tropical Laboratory, University of Liverpool, to The Secretaries, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London13 February 1919
NLB/57/657Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Frank [Watson] Dyson, FRS, Astronomer Royal7 January 1920
NLB/62/698Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Reverend [William Frederick Archdall] Ellison; Armagh Observatory, Ireland7 April 1922
NLB/62/611Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS22 March 1922
NLB/62/610Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Reverend [William Frederick Archdall] Ellison; Armagh Observatory, Ireland23 March 1922
IM/003250Newall, Hugh Frank1922
NLB/63/478Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney Harmer, K.B.E., FRS26 October 1922
NLB/65/93Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS25 July 1923
NLB/65/523Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to all members of the Committees' Appointment Committee 13 November 1923
NLB/67/561Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS22 January 1925
NLB/67/121Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS28 October 1924
NLB/67/642Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Editors of the 'Observatory'; Royal Observatory, Greenwich5 February 1925
NLB/67/482Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS7 January 1925
NLB/73/360Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS23 June 1931
CD/15/1Letter from Hugh Frank Newall, Astrophysical Department, Cambridge, to Sir William Huggins11 October 1908
NLB/73/352Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS19 June 1931
NLB/49/131aCopy letter from Arthur Schuster; to the Secretary of the Admiralty[November 1913]
MM/15/105Extracts from Council Minutes of the Royal Society, on the creation of a Committee to consider the subject of the proposed Astronomical survey of Ancient British Monuments1906
NLB/10/956Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Hugh Frank Newall, Trinity College, Cambridge13 March 1895
NLB/15/720Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to the Under Secretary of State for India, Whitehall, S.W. 22 November 1897
NLB/31/449Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society21 September 1905
NLB/33/57Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Hugh Frank Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society, Madingley Rise, Cambridge23 June 1906
NLB/39/506Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to H [Hugh] F [Frank] Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society29 January 1909
NLB/42/684Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor H [Hugh] F [Frank] Newall FRS3 August 1910
RR/17/346Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The constitution of the electric spark' by T RoydsApril 1908
NLB/57/655Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor HF [Hugh Frank] Newall, FRS7 January 1920
RR/16/238Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'Flame spectra' by Charles de Watteville11 July 1904
NLB/32/815Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Fellow of the Royal Society29 May 1906
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/18/32Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The effect of pressure upon arc spectra. No. 3.—silver; No. 4.—gold', by W. G. DuffieldMay 1910
RR/17/5Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The distribution of blue and violet light in the corona on August 30, 1905, as derived from photographs taken at Kalaa-es-Senam, Tunisia' by L Becker19 January 1907
PP/7/22/1Manuscript, 'On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson and Hugh Frank Newall1885
PP/7/22Paper, 'On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson and Hugh Frank Newall1885
PP/7/22/2Figures, a drop of ink falling into water by Joseph John Thomson and Hugh Frank Newall1885
PP/10/52Paper, 'On the rate at which electricity leaks through liquids which are bad conductors of electricity' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and H F [Hugh Frank] Newall1887
PP/10/52/1Manuscript, 'On the rate at which electricity leaks through liquids which are bad conductors of electricity' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and H F [Hugh Frank] Newall1887
PP/10/52/2Diagrams, experimental equipment and results by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and H F [Hugh Frank] Newall1887
AP/80/8Paper, 'Total solar eclipse of 1900 May 28. Preliminary report on the observations made at Bouzaréah (in the grounds of the Algiers Observatory [Algeria])' by H H [Herbert Hall] Turner and H F [Hugh Frank] Newall1900
RR/16/338Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on three papers by Joseph Norman Lockyer and Frank E Baxandall13 January 1905
RR/16/57Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The spectra of metallic arcs in an exhausted globe' by Alfred Fowler and Howard Payn3 July 1903
RR/16/58Letter from Alfred Fowler and Howard Payn, in reply to a referee report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'The spectra of metallic arcs in an exhausted globe' by Alfred Fowler and Howard PaynJuly 1903
RR/16/236Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'Flame spectra' by Charles de WattevilleJune 1904
RR/33/9Referee's report by Hugh Frank Newall, on a paper 'Drawings of the corona from photographs at total eclipses from 1896 to 1922' by Frank Watson Dyson, Astronomer Royal16 November 1926
MC/16/94Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to [Michael] Foster21 February 1894
MC/18/141Letter from [Joseph] Larmor, St John's College, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison2 March 1903
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
MC/23/324Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [the Royal Society]14 December 1908
NLB/39/250Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to H [Hugh] F [Frank] Newall, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1908
MC/19/649Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison3 December 1904
MC/19/648Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison[August 1904]
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/25/217Letter from Arthur Schuster, Kent House, Victoria Park, Manchester, to The Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W20 December 1910
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
MC/20/239Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison30 October 1905
MC/20/240Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison12 December 1905
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/21/454Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison16 July 1906
MC/21/455Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to the Royal Society14 August 1906
MC/31/131Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to Sir Alfred [Bray] Kempe, Treasurer, [Royal Society]12 April 1916
MC/34/136Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]10 October 1919
MC/38Volume 38 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1924
MC/37/99Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to Mr [Francis Alexander] Towle, [Royal Society]25 July 1923
MC/38/76Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, to [Francis Alexander] Towle20 July 1924
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