| Authorised form of name | Barnes; Howard Turner (1873 - 1950); physicist |
| Dates | 1873 - 1950 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America |
| Date of birth | 21 July 1873 |
| Place of death | Burlington, Vermont, United States of America |
| Date of death | 04 October 1950 |
| Occupation | physicist |
| Research field | Physics |
| Activity | Education:
Montreal Academy ; DSc (McGill)
Career:
Demonstrator at McGill in physics, working under Hugh Longbourne Callendar (FRS 1894); went to the UK on a scholarship from the Royal Society (1899); returned to McGill as lecturer in physics (1900); assistant professor at McGill (1901: associate professor at McGill (1907); appointed Macdonald Professor of Physics and Director of the Laboratory (1907-1917); professor at McGill (1920-1933).
Memberships:
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1908
Tyndall Lecturer 1912 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/05/1911 |
| Age at election | 38 |
| Proposer | Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Ernest Rutherford; Ernest Hhoward Griffiths; Henry Taylor Bovey; Ernest William MacBride; Frank Dawson Adams; John George Adami; Arthur Schuster; William Cecil Dampier Whetham; Frederick Thomas Trouton; Joseph W Swan |
| Relationships | Parents: Reverend William S. Barnes, LL.D., and of Mary Alice (née Turner).
Spouse: Miss Anne Kershaw Cunliffe, younger daughter of Thomas Cunliffe of Bolton, Lancashire (September 1901).
Children: William, Thomas, Anne and Mary (twins). |
| General context | Specialised in calorimetry, electrolytes, ice formation and ice engineering. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB vol 17 pp 46-47
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 25-35, plate, by J S Foster
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 |
| Royal Society code | NA4794 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/Maull/005054 | Barnes, Howard Turner | nd |
| NLB/18/269 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor G Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society | 15 February 1899 |
| NLB/21/113 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Howard Turner Barnes, Fellow of the Royal Society | 30 July 1900 |
| NLB/21/89 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society | 27 July 1900 |
| NLB/21/330 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Howard Turner Barnes, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Macdonald Physical Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal | 1 November 1900 |
| NLB/57/384 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor AS [Arthur Stewart] Eve, FRS, CBE | 29 October 1919 |
| NLB/69/693 | Copy letter from Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Howard Turner] Barnes, FRS | 23 July 1926 |
| RR/33/18 | Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'Some physical properties of lcebergs and a method for their destruction' by Howard Turner Barnes | December 1926 |
| NLB/70/107 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Howard Turner] Barnes, FRS | 5 January 1927 |
| RR/15/165 | Referee's report by Herbert McLeod, on a paper 'Continuous electrical calorimetry' by Hugh Longbourne Callendar | January 1901 |
| NLB/19/773 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Howard Turnder Barnes, [Fellow of the Royal Society], McGill College, Montreal | 15 December 1899 |
| NLB/21/22 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Fellow of the Royal Society | 17 July 1900 |
| EC/1911/02 | Barnes, Howard Turner: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| EC/1911/01 | Barnes, Howard Turner: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/15/163 | Referee's report by Ernest Howard Griffiths, on a paper 'Continuous electrical calorimetry' by Hugh Longbourne Callendar | 4 January 1902 |
| RR/15/155 | Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'A determination by a thermal method of the variation of the critical velocity of water with temperature' by Howard Turner Barnes and Ernest George Coker | 28 October 1901 |
| RR/13/175 | Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the variation of the electromotive force of different forms of the Clark standard cell with temperature and with strength of solution' by Hugh Longbourne Callendar and Howard Turner Barnes | 17 March 1897 |
| RR/15/7 | Referee's report by Ernest Howard Griffiths, on a paper 'The capacity for heat of water between the freezing & boiling points' by Howard Turner Barnes | July 1900 |
| RR/15/8 | Referee's report by Osborne Reynolds, on a paper 'The capacity for heat of water between the freezing & boiling points' by Howard Turner Barnes | 26 July 1900 |
| RR/15/154 | Referee's report by Henry Selby Hele-Shaw, on a paper 'A determination by a thermal method of the variation of the critical velocity of water with temperature' by Howard Turner Barnes and Ernest George Coker | 15 October 1901 |
| MC/26/17 | Letter from [Howard Turner] Barnes, McGill University, Montreal, to the Secretaries, Royal Society, London | 26 July 1911 |
| MC/26/18 | Letter from [Howard Turner] Barnes, McGill University, Montreal, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Assistant Secretary], [Royal Society] | August 1911 |
| MC/27/48 | Letter from [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London, S.W | 6 February 1912 |
| MC/37/9 | Letter from Howard [Turner] Barnes, McGill University, Montreal, to Sir David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society, London | 13 November 1923 |
| MC/39/8 | Letter from Howard [Turner] Barnes, McGill University, Montreal, to Sir David | 28 July 1925 |