| Authorised form of name | Mellor; Joseph William (1869 - 1938) |
| Dates | 1869 - 1938 |
| Place of birth | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England |
| Date of birth | 09 July 1869 |
| Place of death | London, England |
| Date of death | 24/05/1938 |
| Research field | Inorganic chemistry |
| Physical chemistry |
| Technical chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
University of Otago. BSc, DSc (NZ)
Career:
Director of the British Refractories Association and Principal of the Pottery School, Stoke-on-Trent; Honorary Secretary of the Ceramic Society
Honours:
CBE 1937
Memberships:
Hon RSNZ (1919)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/05/1927 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; ENZ
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 573-576, plate, by A T Green
References:
Robin J H Clark and Michael J Kelly, 'New Zealand, New Zealanders and the Royal Society' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 263-281 |
| Royal Society code | NA8075 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1927/10 | Mellor, Joseph William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/15/407 | Fifth letter from Meyer Wilderman, on his paper 'Chemical dynamics and statics in light' to Joseph Larmor | 27 April 1902 |
| RR/51/9 | Referee's report by Joseph William Mellor, on a paper 'On the anomalous flow of colloidal systems' by Arthur Stuart Clark Lawrence | [June 1934] |
| RR/50/128 | Referee's report by Joseph William Mellor, on a paper 'The interaction of clay with water and organic liquids as measured by specific volume changes and its relation to the phenomena of crumb formation in soils' by E W Russell | 1 March 1934 |
| NLB/70/605 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Joseph William] Mellor, FRS | 2 June 1927 |
| NLB/70/564 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Joseph William] Mellor, FRS | 20 May 1927 |
| RR/39/92 | Referee's report by Joseph William Mellor, on a paper 'A new method of determining the distribution curve of polydisperse colloidal systems' by C E Marshall | [December 1929] |