Harry Medforth Dawson, 1876 - 1939

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Chemical Research ◽  
Modern School ◽  
The University ◽  
College Educated

Harry Medforth Dawson was born in Bramley, Leeds, in 1876, and throughout his career was associated closely with his home city. Indeed with the exception of three years of Continental study he spent the whole of his working life in the University of Leeds, known in its early days as the Yorkshire College. Educated at the Leeds Modern School, he gained a Baines Scholarship at the Yorkshire College and began life as a student in 1891 at the early age of fifteen. Here he was attracted to the study of chemistry by the teaching of Arthur Smithells, who a few years previously had succeeded Sir Edward Thorpe in the Chair of Chemistry. To the influence and guidance of Smithells, not only in his student days, but later when he was a member of the chemistry staff, Dawson always acknowledged that he owed a great deal. It was probably due to his collaboration with Smithells in one of his well-known investigations on flame that turned Dawson’s interests towards chemistry and chemical research as his career; for in his last year as a student he helped in a research on the conductivity and luminosity of flames containing salt vapours. This work was completed and published a few years later in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in the names of A. Smithells, H. M. Dawson and H. A. Wilson. After graduating B.Sc. London in 1896, Dawson gained an 1851 Exhibition, the highest distinction then open to a student, and he proceeded to Germany where he studied for three years, mainly with van’t Hoff in Berlin but also at Giessen with Elbs, at Leipzig, and with Abegg at Breslau.

John James Rickard Macleod, 1876-1935

1935 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-589
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Leipzig ◽  
Regius Professor

John James Rickard Macleod, the son of the Rev. Robert Macleod, was born at Cluny, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, on September 6, 1876. He received his preliminary education at Aberdeen Grammar School and in 1893 entered Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, as a medical student. After a distinguished student career he graduated M.B., Ch.B. with Honours in 1898 and was awarded the Anderson Travelling Fellowship. He proceeded to Germany and worked for a year in the Physiological Institute of the University of Leipzig. He returned to London on his appointment as a Demonstrator of Physiology at the London Hospital Medical College under Professor Leonard Hill. Two years later he was appointed to the Lectureship on Biochemistry in the same college. In 1901 he was awarded the McKinnon Research Studentship of the Royal Society. At the early age of 27 (in 1902) he was appointed Professor of Physiology at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, a post he occupied until 1918, when he was elected Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto. Previous to this transfer he had, during his last two years at Cleveland, been engaged in various war duties and incidentally had acted for part of the winter session of 1916 as Professor of Physiology at McGill University, Montreal. He remained at Toronto for ten years until, in 1928, he was appointed Regius Professor of Physiology in the University of Aberdeen, a post he held, in spite of steadily increasing disability, until his lamentably early death on March 16, 1935, at the age of 58.

Edward Waymouth Reid, 1862-1948

1948 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
pp. 212-218
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Reactions ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
Assistant Lecturer

E. Waymouth Reid, who retired from the Chair of Physiology at University College, Dundee, University of St Andrews, in 1935, after forty-six years’ service, died on 10 March 1948 at the age of eighty-five. He was born 11 October 1862 in Canterbury, the fourth son of a surgeon there, James Reid, F.R.C.S. He was educated at Sutton Vallance Grammar School, gaining eventually a Classical Scholarship to Cambridge. He matriculated at Cambridge University in 1879. In 1882 he gained a first class in Part I of the Natural Science Tripos and in 1883 a first class in Part II. During the period 1882-1883 he also acted as one of the demonstrators in the Department of Anatomy. He then decided to qualify in medicine and in 1883 he joined St Bartholomew’s Hospital, graduating in medicine in 1885. He early showed his interest in electrical reactions,, being appointed assistant ‘electrician’ at St Bartholomew’s in 1885. The same year he was elected to a Demonstratorship in Physiology at St Mary’s Hospital under A. D. Waller and in 1887 was promoted to the post of Assistant Lecturer in Physiology. Reid, during the period he was at St Mary’s, carried out in conjunction with Waller a most interesting investigation on the electrical activity of the excised mammalian heart. This investigation must have been one of the earliest pieces of research in electrocardiography in this country. His interest in physico-chemical reactions was also manifested early as in 1887 he devised a useful recording osmometer. In 1889 Reid was elected, at the early age of twenty-seven, as the first holder of the newly created Chair of Physiology at University College, Dundee, where he joined a stimulating and enthusiastic band of colleagues including Geddes, D’Arcy Thompson and Ewing. Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1898 and in 1904 gained the Sc.D. of his old University. The University of St Andrews conferred on him the degree of LL.D. when he retired from his Chair.

scholarly journals The FRS nomination of Sir Prafulla C. Ray and the correspondence of N. R. Dhar

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Arnab Rai Choudhuri ◽  
Rajinder Singh
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Chemical Research ◽  
Presidency College ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Life Work

Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray (1861–1944) was the first Indian chemist to achieve high international reputation. Originally trained at the University of Edinburgh, he worked for many years at Presidency College in Calcutta and then at Calcutta University. He built up a remarkable school of chemical research by attracting many outstanding students to work with him and published about 150 papers—many of them in leading British and German journals. Ray was highly respected by his British peers and was the first Indian of that era to be nominated for FRS, in 1913. At the time when his nomination was being considered by the Royal Society, Ray's favourite student, Nil Ratan Dhar (1892–1986), who was to become the second Indian chemist to achieve high international reputation, worked in London and Paris for a few years. Even when Dhar was merely a 24-year-old student, he lobbied with several leading British chemists for the election of Ray and kept Ray informed in a series of fascinating letters—giving us a rare glimpse of what election to the Royal Society meant for Indian scientists of that era. During this time, Ray received a knighthood for his contributions to chemistry, and Nature published a front-page article on Ray's ‘life-work’. Many British chemists felt strongly that Ray should be elected FRS and were willing to discuss Ray's case with the young Dhar quite openly. But, rather mysteriously, Ray never got elected.

scholarly journals Edmund Brisco Ford, 23 April 1901 - 21 January 1988

1995 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 146-168 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Ecological Genetics ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The University

Edmund Brisco Ford, Emeritus Professor of Ecological Genetics in the University of Oxford, Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College and Darwin Medallist of the Royal Society, died on Thursday 21 January 1988 at the age of 86. His body was cremated and, at his request, the ashes were scattered on a grassy Cotswold hillside near Birdlip. In death he returned to the butterfly-meadows that had been the setting for so much of his working life. As the author of what is widely regarded as the best book on butterflies ever written, he progressed through entomology to using his insects as tools for the study of evolution, and finally (as he wrote) to ‘invent and develop the science of ecological genetics.’ 1 * In doing so he became one of the outstanding evolutionary biologists of his generation, famous not only for the quality of his science but also for the individuality, not to say the eccentricity, of his behaviour. ‘Henry’, as he was known to friends and colleagues, was a man about whom tales accumulated. * Numbers in this form refer to entries in the footnotes at the end of the text.

Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov, 14 September 1891 - 20 March 1983

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 611-631
Keyword(s):  
Probability Theory ◽  
Number Theory ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
Mathematical Section ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church

Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov was born on 14 September (New Style) 1891. His father Matveǐ Avraam’evich was the priest of the village church ( pogost ) of Milolyub in the Velikie Luki district of Pskov province in western Russia. His mother was a teacher. From an early age he showed an aptitude for drawing and, instead of an ecclesiastical school (as would have been normal for a son of the clergy), his parents sent him in 1903 to the modern school ( real´noe uchilishche : i.e. one with a scientific as opposed to a classical orientation) in Velikie Luki, whither his father had moved with his family on his translation to the Church of the Holy Shroud ( Pokrovskaya Tserkov ’) there. In 1910 on completing school, Vinogradov entered the mathematical section of the Physico-mathematical Faculty of the University at the Imperial capital, St Petersburg. Among the staff were A. A. Markov, whose lectures on probability he is said to have known by heart, and Ya. V. Uspenskiǐ ( = J. V. Uspensky, later of Stanford University, U.S.A.), both with interests in number theory and probability theory. There had been a long tradition in these subjects (Chebyshëv in both; Korkin, Zolotarëv and Voronoǐ in number theory). Vinogradov was attracted to number theory and showed such ability that on completing the course in 1914 he was retained at the University for training as an academic. He successfully completed the extensive Master’s examination and in 1915, on the initiative of V. A. Steklov, was awarded a bursary.

Ernest William Barnes, 1874-1953

1954 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-25
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Elementary Teacher ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The father of Ernest William Barnes was John Starkie Barnes, a native of Accrington in Lancashire, whose forebears and relatives were all engaged in the cotton trade. Mr Barnes became an elementary teacher in the sixties of the last century, and at an early age was appointed a headmaster. His wife, Jane Elizabeth Kerry, who came of an agricultural family in the small Oxfordshire town of Charlbury, was at the time of their marriage headmistress of the associated school for girls. They had a family of four sons, of whom the eldest, the subject of this notice, was born at Birmingham on 1 April 1874: the second, Arthur Stanley (1875—) became M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P., and Dean of the Medical Faculty in the University of Birmingham; the third, Alfred Edward (1877-1916) won a classical scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the Bar, and became an official of the Local Government Board; the youngest, James Sidney (1881- 1952), was also a scholar of Trinity, was Third Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos, and entered the Admiralty: he rose to be Deputy Secretary and to be awarded the C.B. and the K.B.E. Mr J. S. Barnes, after holding more than one headmastership, became Clerk to the King’s Norton School Board, and, about 1883, an Inspector of Schools in Birmingham, a position that he occupied throughout the rest of his working life.

scholarly journals Agnes Arber, 1879-1960

1960 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Notable Feature ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University ◽  
Regius Professor ◽  
Early Training

Agnes Arber was born in 1879, the eldest child of a cultured family, whose members achieved distinction in different fields. Her father, Henry Robert Robertson, was an artist of Scottish extraction, whose father, a man of considerable botanical interests, also with gifts as an artist, had a private school at Slough. Her mother, Agnes Lucy Turner, was a descendant of Robert Chamberlain, who founded the china works of Chamberlain & Son at Worcester, and her mother’s relatives included John Davidson, the African explorer, and George Fownes, both of whom were Fellows of the Royal Society. Her brother, Donald Straun Robertson, M.A., F.B.A., was Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge and author of various books on classical subjects. Her sister, Janet Robertson, was a portrait painter. At an early age her mother inspired her with an interest in plants and her father gave her regular drawing lessons from the age of three until she went to school. This early training developed her powers of observation, and laid the foundation of the skill and artistry which later formed such a notable feature of her books and papers.

Development of a Student's Critical Thinking during the Course of General Sociology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Е.Е. Луцькая
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
School Education ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
The University

критическое мышление считается одной ключевых компетенций современного образования, и современные студенты безусловно нуждаются в его развитии, поскольку особенности современного школьного образования и тенденции развития массового общества не дают ему развиться адекватно потребностям быстро изменяющейся социальной реальности. В статье на примере курса общей социологии показан процесс развития критического мышления в университете. Для формирования критического мышления привлекаются работы Ч.Р. Миллса, З. Баумана, Х. Ортеги-и-Гассета и др. critical thinking is considered one of the key competencies of modern education, and modern students certainly need to develop it, since the features of modern school education and the development trends of mass society do not allow it to develop adequately to the needs of rapidly changing social reality. This article uses the example of a General sociology course to show the process of developing critical thinking at the University. The works of Ch.R. Mills, Z. Bauman, J. Ortega y Gasset, and others are used to form critical thinking.

XIV.—Rowett Research Institute

1951 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-276
Author(s):  
D. P. Cuthbertson
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Animal Nutrition ◽  
College Of Agriculture ◽  
The North ◽  
Agricultural Research Council ◽  
The University

The Rowett Institute for research on animal nutrition had its origin under a scheme for promoting scientific research in agriculture adopted by the Development Commission in 1911.The Governing Body, which originally consisted of an equal number of members appointed by the Court of the University of Aberdeen and the Governors of the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, was constituted in 1913. Within recent years it has been expanded to include persons nominated by the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Agricultural Research Council, and the Medical Research Council. Research work was begun in temporary accommodation in Marischal College in 1914, under the direction of Dr John Boyd Orr—now Lord Boyd-Orr—who continued as Director until his retirement in 1945.

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
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.

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