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Authorised form of nameWatson; George Neville (1886 - 1965)
Dates1886 - 1965
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWestward Ho!, Devon, England
Date of birth31 January 1886
Place of deathLeamington Spa, Warwickshire
Date of death02/02/1965
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityEducation:
MA (Camb); DSc (Lond)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/05/1919
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Sylvester Medal 1946
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1966 vol 12 pp 521-530, plate, by J M Whittaker
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/66541396
Royal Society codeNA6171
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1919/13Watson, George Neville: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/Russell/17879Watson, George Nevillend
RR/18/99Referee's report by Hector Munro MacDonald, on a paper 'A theory of asymptotic series' by George Neville WatsonFebruary 1911
RR/24/90Referee's report by Ernest William Hobson, on a paper 'The zeros of bessel functions' by George Neville Watson[November 1917]
RR/50/127Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Interference due to walls of a wind-tunnel' by Louis RosenheadJuly 1933
RR/66/340Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'The asymptotic expansion of integral functions defined by Taylor series' by Ernest Marshall Wright[May 1939]
RR/72/85Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Diophantine inequalities with an infinity of solutions' by Harold Davenport and Claude Ambrose Rogers1949
NLB/66/411Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Sydney] Chapman, FRS3 May 1924
NLB/64/836Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Horace] Lamb [Chairman of the Mathematics Committee] FRS27 June 1923
NLB/64/714Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Neville] Watson, FRS.7 June 1923
RR/31/33Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Spheroidal wave-functions' by John William Nicholson[October 1924]
NLB/66/71Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [George Neville] Watson, FRS, circulated to the Mathematics Committee16 February 1924
NLB/69/264Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [George Neville] Watson, FRS18 February 1926
NLB/72/342Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [George Neville] Watson Esq., Sc.D., FRS5 July 1929
MM/22/21Letter from the Royal Society to George Neville Watson16 May 1919
NLB/64/38Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Neville] Watson, FRS22 January 1923
RR/18/100Referee's report by Ernest William Hobson, on a paper 'A theory of asymptotic series' by George Neville WatsonApril 1911
NLB/56/413Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [George Neville] Watson, FRS; The University of Birmingham3 February 1919
RR/31/82Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Problems in two-dimensional electrostatics' by D M Winchnd [1924]
RR/72/54Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Asymptotic formulae for hypergeometric functions' by Thomas MacFarlane Cherry 1949
RR/31/32Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'The electrification of two parallel circular discs' by John William Nicholson[June 1924]
RR/34/122Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Tables of log K0 (x) over the range x = 2 to x = 12 at intervals of 0·001' by J Topping and A E Ludlam[July 1926]
NLB/66/517Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Sydney] Chapman, FRS22 May 1924
NLB/66/658Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Sydney] Chapman13 June 1924
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/51/44Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'On the explicit solution of certain difference equations' by L M Milne-Thomson[June 1934]
RR/27/118Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Oblate spheroidal harmonics and their applications' by John William Nicholson24 January 1923
RR/30/56Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'A spherical source in a rotating liquid' by S F Grace[March 1924]
RR/34/58Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'The intensity of the radiation from a source of electric waves when the electric constants of the medium in the neighbourhood of the source are different from the electric constants at a distance from it' by Hector Munro Macdonald[January 1927]
RR/42/77Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The use of series of bessel functions in problems connected with cylindrical wind-tunnels' by George Neville WatsonOctober 1930
RR/50/53Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Boundary conditions for the wave equation' by William Hunter McCrea and R A Newing14 April 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
RR/77/248Referee's report by George Nevill Watson, on a paper 'Spectral theory for the differential equations of simple birth and death processes' by W Ledermann and G E H Reuter5 May 1953
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