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Authorised form of nameCox; Sir; Ernest Gordon (1906 - 1996)
Dates1906 - 1996
NationalityBritish
Date of birth24/04/1906
Date of death23/06/1996
ActivityHonours:
KBE 1964
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1954
Age at election47
SourceAssocMaterial:
NCUACS 123/9/03. Papers deposited in Special Collections, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2000 vol 46 pp 65-84, plate, by D W J Cruickshank
References:
John Postgate, 'The Origins of the Unit of Nitrogen Fixation at the University of Sussex' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 355-362
CodeNA2615
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
GLB/34/9Brown to E G Cox, Agricultural Research Council, Cunard Building, Regent Street, London25 March 1965
GLB/65/95/37E G Cox, Agricultural Research Council, London to Brown3 August 1965
GLB/34/8E G Cox, Agricultural Research Council, Cunard Building, Regent Street, London to Brown24 March 1965
GLB/65/95/38Brown to E G Cox, Agricultural Research Council, London 5 August 1968
GLB/65/95/39E G Cox, Agricultural Research Council, London to Brown13 August 1965
IM/GA/WS/4651Cox, Sir Ernest Gordonnd
IM/000973Cox, Sir Ernest Gordon1958
PB/8/84/1Speech by Blackett at opening of new building at Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, July 19701970
RR/59/30Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The structure of isatin - I' by Ernest Gordon Cox, T H Goodwin and A I Wagstaff[June 1936]
EC/1954/03Cox, Sir Ernest Gordon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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