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Authorised form of nameKing; Louis Vessot (1886 - 1956)
Dates1886 - 1956
Date of birth18 April 1886
Date of death06/06/1956
ActivityEducation:
DSc
Career:
Macdonald Professor of Physics, McGill University, Montreal
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/05/1924
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1957 vol 3 pp 101-108, plate, by J S Foster
Royal Society codeNA1774
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1924/08King, Louis Vessot: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/54/533Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS11 June 1917
NLB/54/616Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Louis Vessot] King6 July 1917
RR/26/73Referee's report by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, on a paper 'On some new formulæ for the numerical calculation of the mutual induction of coaxial circles' by Louis Vessot King9 June 1921
NLB/56/533Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Louis [Vessot] King, FRS; McGill University, Montreal5 March 1919
RR/29/14Referee's report by George Adolphus Schott, on a paper 'On the complex anisotropic molecule in relation to the dispersion and scattering of light' by Louis Vessot KingJanuary 1923
MC/34/118Letter from Louis [Vessot] King, McGill University, Montreal, to The Secretaries, The Royal Society of London, Burlington House, London, E.C21 March 1919
RR/46/13Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'On periodic and transient electromagnetic waves in imperfectly conducting media' by Louis Vessot King[September 1932]
RR/53/153Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the acoustic radiation pressure on spheres' by Louis Vessot King[August 1934]
RR/54/14Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On the theory of the inertia and diffraction corrections for the Rayleigh disc' by Louis Vessot KingSeptember 1935
RR/54/13Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the acoustic radiation pressure on circular discs: Inertia and diffraction corrections' by Louis Vessot KingSeptember 1935
NLB/54/426Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS11 May 1917
RR/58/37Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'On the radiation field of a perfectly conducting base insulated cylindrical antenna over a perfectly conducting plane earth, and the calculation of radiation resistance and reactance' by Louis Vessot KingApril 1937
NLB/64/386Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Louis Vessot] King, FRS26 March 1923
NLB/66/659Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Louis Vessot] King, FRS14 June 1924
RR/46/9Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'On new singular solutions of Maxwell's equations and their application to the calculation of antennae radiation fields' by Louis Vessot King[July 1932]
RR/46/7Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the flow of electric current in semi-infinite stratified media' by Louis Vessot King[August 1932]
RR/19/75Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On the scattering and absorption of light in gaseous media, with applications to the intensity of sky radiation' by Louis Vessot King[July 1912]
NLB/66/753Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Louis Vessot] King, FRS4 July 1924
NLB/68/262Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Louis Vessot] King, FRS; Royal Societies Club8 June 1925
NLB/54/532Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS11 June 1917
RR/46/11Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'On new singular solutions of Maxwell's equations and their application to the calculation of antennae radiation fields' by Louis Vessot King[June 1932]
RR/21/103Referee's report by Charles Niven, on a paper 'On the convection of heat from small cylinders in a stream of fluid: Determination of the convection constants of small platinum wires with applications to hot-wire anemometry' by Louis Vessot King[June 1914]
RR/48/70Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'On the flow of electric current in semi-infinite media in which the specific resistance is a function of the depth' by Louis Vessot King[January 1934]
RR/19/74Referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'On the scattering and absorption of light in gaseous media, with applications to the intensity of sky radiation' by Louis Vessot King16 June 1912
RR/21/102Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'On the convection of heat from small cylinders in a stream of fluid: Determination of the convection constants of small platinum wires with applications to hot-wire anemometry' by Louis Vessot King[May 1914]
RR/24/54Referee's report by Edwin Henry Barton, on a paper 'On the propagation of sound in the free atmosphere and the acoustic efficiency of fog-signal machinery: an account of experiments carried out at father point, quebec, September, 1913' by Louis Vessot King9 June 1917
RR/24/55Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the propagation of sound in the free atmosphere and the acoustic efficiency of fog-signal machinery: an account of experiments carried out at father point, quebec, September, 1913' by Louis Vessot King[May 1917]
RR/46/8Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'On the flow of electric current in semi-infinite stratified media' by Louis Vessot King7 September 1932
RR/46/10Second referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'On new singular solutions of Maxwell's equations and their application to the calculation of antennae radiation fields' by Louis Vessot King28 December 1932
RR/46/12Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'On periodic and transient electromagnetic waves in imperfectly conducting media' by Louis Vessot King3 January 1933
RR/58/38Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'On the radiation field of a perfectly conducting base insulated cylindrical antenna over a perfectly conducting plane earth, and the calculation of radiation resistance and reactance' by Louis Vessot KingMarch 1937
MC/28/166Letter from Louis [Vessot] King, McGill University, Montreal, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society19 April 1913
MC/33/101Letter from Louis [Vessot] King, McGill University, MacDonld Physical Building, Montreal, to The Secretaries, Royal Society, Burlington House, London8 February 1918
MC/34/117Letter from Louis [Vessot] King, McGill University, Montreal, to The Secretaries, The Royal Society of London, Burlington House, London, E.C31 January 1919
MC/38/55Letter from Louis [Vessot] King, McGill University, Montreal, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London4 June 1924
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