| Authorised form of name | Richardson; Lewis Fry (1881 - 1953) |
| Dates | 1881 - 1953 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England |
| Date of birth | 11 October 1881 |
| Place of death | Kilmun, Argyll |
| Date of death | 30/09/1953 |
| Activity | Education:
Newcastle Preparatory School; Bootham School, York (1894-1898); Durham School of Science (1898); King's College Cambridge (1900). BA (1903 Cambridge, First Class Nat Sci Tripos)
Career:
Student Assistant, National Physical Laboratory (NPL) (1903); Junior Demonstrator in Physics, University College, Aberystwyth (1905); Chemist, National Peat Industries Ltd (1906); Metrology Division, NPL (1908); Sunbeam Lamp Company, Gateshead (1909); Demonstrator and Lecture in Physics, Manchester College of Technology (1912); Superintendent, Eskdalemuir Observatory, Meteorological Office (1913-1916); Friends Ambulance Unit, attached to 16th French Infantry Division (1916); research, Aerological Observatory, Benson, Oxford (1919-1920); Lecturer in Physics, Training College, Westminster (1920); Member, International Commission for the study of Upper Air and Technical Sub-Committee on Atmospheric Pollution; Principal, Paisley College of Technology and School of Art (1929); retired (1940)
Memberships:
RMS |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/05/1926 |
| Relationships | Son of David Richardson, tanner, and his wife Catherine Fry; uncle of Sir Ralph Richardson, actor; married (09 January 1909) Dorothy, daughter of William Garnett; adopted 2 sons and one daughter |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 44/6/93. Papers deposited in Cambridge University Library
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1954 vol 9 pp 217-235, plate, by E Gold
References:
Bertha Swirles Jeffreys, 'John Arthur Gaunt (1904-1944)' in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 73-79 |
| Royal Society code | NA8012 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1926/21 | Richardson, Lewis Fry: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/003813 | Richardson, Lewis Fry | nd |
| IM/003815 | Richardson, Lewis Fry | 2000 |
| RR/17/341 | Referee's report by Ralph Allen Sampson, on a paper 'Solution of various differential equations by arithmetical finite differences' by Lewis Fry Richardson | September 1908 |
| RR/17/340 | Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'The solution of differential equations of arithmetical and algebraic finite differences - revised version' by Lewis Fry Richardson | 26 August 1908 |
| RR/36/51 | Referee's report by Charles Edward Spearman, on a paper 'On trying-to-think imagery and conductance' by Lewis Fry Richardson | [October 1927] |
| RR/36/52 | Referee's report by Charles Samuel Myers, on a paper 'On trying-to-think imagery and conductance' by Lewis Fry Richardson | [1927] |
| RR/36/54 | Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On the measurability of intensities of sensation' by Lewis Fry Richardson | [March 1928] |
| RR/34/92 | Referee's report by John Edensor Littlewood, on a paper 'The deferred approach to the limit' by Lewis Fry Richardson and J Arthur Gaunt | [December 1926] |
| RR/36/53 | Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On trying-to-think imagery and conductance' by Lewis Fry Richardson | [March 1928] |
| RR/17/339 | Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'The solution of differential equations of arithmetical and algebraic finite differences' by Lewis Fry Richardson | 20 March 1908 |
| NLB/57/652 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [William] Napier Shaw, FRS | 7 January, 1920 |
| RR/69/262 | Letter from Sydney Chapman, on an unnamed paper by L F Richardson to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton | 13 July 1945 |
| RR/63/70 | Referee's report by Alexander Russell, on a paper 'The behaviour of an osglim lamp - III—Osglims in parallel, forming models of reciprocal inhibition' by Lewis Fry Richardson | September 1937 |
| RR/63/69 | Referee's report by Alexander Russell, on a paper 'The behaviour of an osglim lamp. II. Oscillograph methods, steady motion and relaxational oscillations' by Lewis Fry Richardson | June 1937 |
| RR/63/66 | Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The behaviour of an osglim lamp. I. Introduction, drift, equilibrium and A.C. bridge measurements' by Lewis Fry Richardson | April 1937 |
| RR/69/263 | Letter from Sydney Chapman, on an unnamed paper by L F Richardson to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton | 21 August 1945 |
| RR/69/290 | Report by Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'The aerodynamic drag of the earth’s surface and the value of von Karman’s constant in the lower atmosphere' by Percival Albert Sheppard | May 1946 |
| RR/69/289 | Report by Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'The aerodynamic drag of the earth’s surface and the value of von Karman’s constant in the lower atmosphere' by Percival Albert Sheppard | 23 March 1946 |
| RR/28/5 | Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Theory of the measurement of wind by shooting spheres upward' by Lewis Fry Richardson | [1922] |
| RR/71/227 | Referee's report by Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'Eddy diffusion of water vapour and heat near the ground' by Frank Pasquill | 22 January 1949 |
| RR/72/229 | Referee's report by Frank Yates, on a paper 'A purification method for computing the latent columns of numerical matrices and some integrals of differential equations' by Lewis Fry Richardson | 1949 |
| RR/72/228 | Referee's report by Alexander Craig Aitken, on a paper 'A purification method for computing the latent columns of numerical matrices and some integrals of differential equations' by Lewis Fry Richardson | 1949 |
| RR/34/93 | Second referee's report by John Edensor Littlewood, on a paper 'The deferred approach to the limit' by Lewis Fry Richardson and J Arthur Gaunt | [December 1926] |
| NLB/72/279 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Lewis Fry] Richardson, FRS | 17 June 1929 |
| NLB/72/151 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Lewis Fry] Richardson, FRS | 25 April 1929 |
| NLB/70/299 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Lewis Fry] Richardson, FRS | 28 February 1927 |
| NLB/70/810 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Lewis Fry] Richardson, FRS | 3 October 1927 |
| NLB/71/396 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Lewis] Richardson, Esq., FRS | 1 May 1928 |
| IM/GA/WS/2342 | Richardson, Lewis Fry | nd |
| IM/003814 | Richardson, Lewis Fry | nd |
| RR/34/94 | Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The deferred approach to the limit' by Lewis Fry Richardson and J Arthur Gaunt | [December 1926] |
| RR/69/287 | Letter from Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'The aerodynamic drag of the earth’s surface and the value of von Karman’s constant in the lower atmosphere' by Percival Albert Sheppard to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton | 22 February 1946 |
| RR/28/4 | Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Theory of the measurement of wind by shooting spheres upward' by Lewis Fry Richardson | 17 January 1923 |
| RR/63/67 | Second referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The behaviour of an osglim lamp. I. Introduction, drift, equilibrium and A.C. bridge measurements' by Lewis Fry Richardson | July 1937 |
| RR/68/258 | Referee's report by Lewis Fry Richardson, on two papers 'On the equation of diffusion in a turbulent medium' by W G L Sutton, and 'Evaporation from a plane, free-liquid surface into a turbulent air stream' by Frank Pasquill | 10 December 1942 |
| RR/33/113 | Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Atmospheric diffusion shown on a distance-neighbour graph' by Lewis Fry Richardson | November 1925 |
| RR/69/288 | Referee's report by Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'The aerodynamic drag of the earth’s surface and the value of von Karman’s constant in the lower atmosphere' by Percival Albert Sheppard | 21 March 1946 |
| RR/73/41 | Referee's report by Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'The aerodynamic drag of grassland' by Frank Pasquill | 20 February 1950 |
| RR/73/153 | Letter from Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'An invariant theory of isotropic turbulence in magneto-hydrodynamics' by Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, to David Brunt, Secretary of the Royal Society | 15 July 1950 |
| RR/77/8 | Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'Transforms for the eddy-diffusion of clusters' by Lewis Fry Richardson | 27 February 1952 |
| MC/35 | Volume 35 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1921 |
| MC/35/127 | Letter from [Lewis Fry] Richardson, 31 Bridge Lane, Golders Green, to the Royal Society | 9 August 1921 |