Levy, Hyman, (7 March 1889–27 Feb. 1975), Professor of Mathematics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, SW, 1923–54; Emeritus Professor, 1954; Head of Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, 1946; Dean of Royal College of Science, 1946–52; Fellow, Imperial College, 1955

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Head Of Department

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
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Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

It is my pleasant duty to welcome you all most warmly to this meeting, which is one of the many events stimulated by the advisory committee of the William and Mary Trust on Science and Technology and Medicine, under the Chairmanship of Sir Arnold Burgen, the immediate past Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. This is a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy, whose President, Sir Randolph Quirk, will be Chairman this afternoon, and it covers Science and Civilization under William and Mary, presumably with the intention that the Society would cover Science if the Academy would cover Civilization. The meeting has been organized by Professor Rupert Hall, a Fellow of the Academy and also well known to the Society, who is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College in the University of London; and Mr Norman Robinson, who retired in 1988 as Librarian to the Royal Society after 40 years service to the Society.

Palaeozoic studies in honour of Sir James Stubblefield

1981 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 581-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Stubblefield
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Royal College ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Current Survey ◽  
Lower Palaeozoic ◽  
Cambrian System

Sir James was born on 6 September 1901 at Cambridge where he attended the Perse School. He received his geological education at Chelsea Polytechnic and the Royal College of Science. In 1923 he was appointed demonstrator in geology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University, where he stayed until 1928; for his last two years there he also served as Warden at the pioneer Imperial College hostel. While at Imperial College he studied the Shineton Shales of the Wrekin district of Shropshire under the guidance of W. W. Watts and in collaboration with his life-long friend O. M. B. Bulman, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1925. This work in Shropshire provided the stimulus for his continuing contribution on the Cambrian system and its faunas, and on trilobites of all ages. During this period he also recorded his observations on Tertiary crabs from Zanzibar, a group he was to return to in later years. In 1928 he obtained one of the two posts offered by the Geological Survey, being appointed Geologist. He undertook field work in the Dorking district as a prelude to an intended posting to the Survey office at York, but the death of G. W. Lee, then palaeontologist in Edinburgh, determined that Stubblefield should remain at the headquarters of the Survey at Jermyn Street in London. Internal transfers of the palaeontological staff left no member available to determine the fossils then accumulating from the current survey of the Shrewsbury district, and Stubblefield was asked by the Director to undertake this task because of his knowledge of the Lower Palaeozoic faunas of Shropshire. This transfer became long-term and thus began his association with, and eventual leadership of, the Palaeontological Department of the Survey, and secured the continuation of his notable contributions to palaeontology. The Shrewsbury commitment led to visits to the area during which new faunal horizons were discovered in the local Cambrian and Ordovician, including the Nemagraptus gracilis fauna from the Breidden Hills; other finds included the then earliest British eurypterid subsequently described by L. Størmer as the type of a new genus under the name of Brachyopterus stubblefieldi.

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