Filon, Prof. Louis Napoleon George, (22 Nov. 1875–29 Dec. 1937), Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of London, since 1912; Director of the University Observatory since 1929; Member of Board of Visitors of Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Member of Council and Vice-President of Royal Society of London, 1936

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The University ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–81), pioneer of modern medicine, architect of intermediary metabolism

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
F W Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Intermediary Metabolism ◽  
Otto Warburg ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
North Germany ◽  
The University ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Summary Krebs was born in Hildesheim (North Germany) and graduated (MD) from the University of Munich in 1923. He was assistant to Otto Warburg (1926–30) who taught tissue slicing and manometry which Krebs used to complete his three great works: The Detoxification of Ammonia (Freiburg im Breisgau 1933), The Degradation of Foods to provide Energy for Life (Sheffield 1937) and Gluconeogenesis (Oxford 1963). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) in 1947, Nobel Laureate in 1953 and KBE in 1958.

scholarly journals Thomas MacFarland cherry

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. R. Love
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Academic Planning ◽  
Great Ability ◽  
Australian Mathematical Society ◽  
General Dynamics ◽  
In Trans ◽  
The University ◽  
Australian Academy ◽  
Made In

Professor Sir Thomas Cherry, F.A.A., F.R.S., died at his home in Melbourne on 21st November 1966 at the age of 68. He was widely known and highly respected as Australia's most distinguished mathematician and a leader in university affairs. He was associated with the University of Melbourne for most of his life, and latterly with La Trobe University as first chairman of its Academic Planning Board. He was a foundation member and a president of both the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Mathematical Society. His greatest contributions to knowledge were probably made in the mathematics of air flow in trans-sonic flight, simultaneously with Lighthill in Britain; but he also made major contributions to global differential equation theory and general dynamics, and solved some difficult special problems in various branches of applied mathematics. He was a most distinguished teacher, amongst whose students are numbered two Fellows of the Royal Society and several professors in Australian and overseas universities. He was a man of wide interests and great ability, of keen insight and broad vision. He knew much more than he ever wrote, and his influence will live on in the minds of innumerable people with whom he worked.

scholarly journals Obituary notices

1930 ◽  
Vol 129 (811) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Mathematical Physics ◽  
Mathematical Society

Thomas John I’Anson Bromwich, who died on August 24, 1929, was one of the most accomplished and most versatile among English mathematicians of the last fifty years. He was born in Wolverhampton on February 8, 1875, but spent his youth in Natal, and was educated in Durban. He came to Cambridge, as a Pensioner of St. John’s College, in October, 1892. A brilliant career as an undergraduate ended when he was Senior Wrangler in 1895, in an exceptionally strong year which included also E. T. Whittaker and J. H. Grace- He obtained a Fellowship in 1897, but left Cambridge in 1902 to be Professor of Mathematics in Galway, returning in 1907 when appointed a permanent lecturer at St. John’s. He was also a University Lecturer from 1909 to 1926. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1906 and a Doctor of Science in 1909. He was for many years a most enthusiastic and energetic member of the London Mathematical Society, of which he was Secretary from 1911 to 1919, and Vice-President in 1919 and 1920. He married in 1901, and leaves a widow and one son. Bromwich’s work covers so wide a field that it is hardly possible for any one person to deal with it competently. His later work in mathematical physics is discussed in Dr. Jeffrey’s notice in the ‘Journal of the London Mathematical Society,’ vol. 5, p. 220. Prof. H. W. Turnbull and Prof. A. E. H. Love have very kindly provided me with notes concerning Bromwich’s early work, in algebra and in applied mathematics respectively, and what I say about these subjects is very largley based on them.

The Reverend Thomas Hincks FRS (1818–1899): taxonomist of Bryozoa and Hydrozoa

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale R. Calder
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Thomas Hincks was born 15 July 1818 in Exeter, England. He attended Manchester New College, York, from 1833 to 1839, and received a B.A. from the University of London in 1840. In 1839 he commenced a 30-year career as a cleric, and served with distinction at Unitarian chapels in Ireland and England. Meanwhile, he enthusiastically pursued interests in natural history. A breakdown in his health and permanent voice impairment during 1867–68 while at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, forced him reluctantly to resign from active ministry in 1869. He moved to Taunton and later to Clifton, and devoted much of the rest of his life to natural history. Hincks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1872 for noteworthy contributions to natural history. Foremost among his publications in science were A history of the British hydroid zoophytes (1868) and A history of the British marine Polyzoa (1880). Hincks named 24 families, 52 genera and 360 species and subspecies of invertebrates, mostly Bryozoa and Hydrozoa. Hincks died 25 January 1899 in Clifton, and was buried in Leeds. His important bryozoan and hydroid collections are in the Natural History Museum, London. At least six genera and 13 species of invertebrates are named in his honour.

A Brief History of the Method of Fixing by Horizontal Angles

1972 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-534
Author(s):  
Charles H. Cotter
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
East India Company ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
History Of ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
First Time ◽  
Royal Society Of London

John Hadley (1670–1744), Vice-President of the Royal Society of London, communicated his ‘Description of a new Instrument for taking Angles’ to the Society on 13 May 1731. Hadley's invention for the first time provided the navigator with an instrument by which he could measure altitudes of celestial bodies with ease and accuracy on board a lively ship at sea. It was not however until about 1750, when the instrument was to be found on board vessels of the East India Company, that Hadley's quadrant (or octant as it is sometimes called) rapidly came into general use.

scholarly journals Address of the President Sir William Bragg, O. M., at the anniversary meeting, 30 November 1938

1938 ◽  
Vol 126 (844) ◽  
pp. 263-286
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Slide Rule ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Lecture Room ◽  
The University ◽  
Ray Methods

According to our honoured custom I preface this annual address by references to those of our Fellows whom death has taken from us during the past year. Arthur Hutchinson (1866-1937), Emeritus Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge and lately Master of Pembroke College, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1922. He had served on the Council from 1932 to 1934 and was a Vice-President for the year 1933-4. While still young Hutchinson made a name for himself by brilliant researches on the chemistry and crystallography of stokesite and other minerals. He devised a stereographic projector and a slide rule which are much used by students of crystallography: and he was skilful in the construction of crystal models and lecture-room apparatus. As a teacher in the University of Cambridge he was highly successful: though it was not until 1926 that he became Professor of Mineralogy, his work had long been of professorial standing. When the use of X-ray methods from 1914 onwards opened up a new crystal science, he at once attached himself to its ways and aided its development. He designed his instruments afresh. He devoted his energies towards the organization of his Department to meet the altered needs in teaching and research. He was a devoted servant to Science, an excellent investigator, an able teacher and one of the kindest and most loyal of friends.

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