Memorial meeting for Lord Blackett, O. M., C. H., F. R. S. at the Royal Society on 31 October 1974

1975 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-162 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Indian Academy ◽  
Memorial Service ◽  
Informal Meeting ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

A MEMORIAL meeting was held at the Royal Society on 31 October 1974 for Lord Blackett, O.M., C.H., F.R.S. Tributes to commemorate Lord Blackett and his achievements were paid by: Sir Alan Hodgkin, O.M., President of the Royal Society Sir Harrie Massey, Physical Secretary of the Royal Society Sir David Martin, Executive Secretary of the Royal Society Professor G. P. S. Occhialini, Foreign Member of the Royal Society Sir Bernard Lovell, F.R.S. Professor C. H. Waddington, F.R.S. Dr C. C. Butler, F.R.S. Professor S. K. Runcorn, F.R.S. Professor M. G. K. Menon, F.R.S., President of the Indian Academy of Sciences Sir Alan Hodgkin, O.M.: After Lord Blackett’s death we learnt from Lady Blackett that he had wished to be remembered at an informal meeting of the Royal Society, rather than at a memorial service of a more conventional kind. For this meeting we have asked several of Patrick Blackett’s friends and colleagues to speak quite briefly and informally about some of the many aspects of his very full and varied life. First of all I have two messages to convey to you. The Prime Minister has expressed his regrets at being unable to be present and he is represented by Lord Wynne Jones. A cable has been received from the Prime Minister of India through the Indian High Commission which reads as follows:

scholarly journals IX. Observations upon so much of Monsieur le Monnier the younger's memoir, lately presented to the Royal Society, as relates to the communicating the electric virtue to non-electrics; by Wm. Watson, F. R. S

1746 ◽  
Vol 44 (482) ◽  
pp. 388-395
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The World is much obliged to Mons. le Monnier for the many Discoverics he has made of the Power of Electricity; though the Reason of my troubling you with this Paper at this time, is my differing with that Gentleman in the Conclusions which he deduces from several of the Experiments contain’d in his Memoir lately presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris , his own Extract of which was lately communicated to the Royal Society .

Otto Meyerhof, 1884 - 1951

1954 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-200 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
School Life ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Long Period ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

Otto Meyerhof was born on 12 April 1884 in Berlin and died in Philadelphia on 6 October 1951 at the age of 67; he was the son of Felix Meyerhof, who was born in 1849 at Hildesheim, and Bettina Meyerhof, nee May, born in 1862 in Hamburg; both his father and grandfather had been in business. An elder sister and two younger brothers died long before him. In 1923 he shared the Nobel prize for Physiology (for 1922) with A. V. Hill. He received an Hon. D.C.L. in 1926 from the University of Edinburgh, was a Foreign Member (1937) of the Royal Society of London, an Hon. Member of the Harvey Society and of Sigma XI. In 1944 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. Otto Meyerhof went through his school life up to the age of 14 without delay, but there is no record that he was then brilliant. When he was 16 he developed some kidney trouble, which caused a long period of rest in bed. This period of seclusion seems to have been responsible for a great mental and artistic development. Reading constantly he matured perceptibly, and in the autumn of 1900 was sent to Egypt on the doctor’s advice for recuperation.

scholarly journals Address given by Sir Charles Darwin at the Max Planck memorial service held on 23 april 1948 in the aula of the University of Göttingen

1948 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Physical Theory ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Scientific Achievement ◽  
Memorial Service ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Deep Appreciation ◽  
The Many ◽  
University Of Göttingen ◽  
The University

The University of Göttingen was founded by George Augustus, whom we know in England as King George II. He was Patron of the Royal Society, and it is fitting that in this hall the Royal Society should pay a tribute of reverence to the memory of the illustrious Max Planck. In his lifetime the Society recorded its deep appreciation of his services to science by electing him to the small and carefully guarded body of its Foreign Members and by bestowing on him in 1929 the highest honour which it has to offer, the Copley Medal. It is not necessary to-day to emphasize the importance of his profound and original researches. The quantum theory, of which he is the sole and undisputed originator, lies at the basis of all modern physical theory and the Society is happy to think that it numbers among its Fellows many who have helped to show how wide and how significant is its scope. Planck’s constant has taken its place by the side of Newton’s constant of gravitation as a symbol of a period of scientific revelation. But if Planck the originator in scientific achievement commands the homage of our heads, no less does Planck the man deserve the approbation of our hearts. His character was modest, kindly and blameless, and amid the trials of distressful times and through many personal sorrows he preserved his integrity and his quiet courage. The Society is happy to remember that Planck was its guest at the Newton Tercentenary Celebrations held in the summer of 1946, and that the many signs of respect and friendship that he then received clearly gave him pleasure in his declining days.

scholarly journals Karl Ritter von Goebel, 1855 - 1932

1933 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-108
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
South American ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Scientific Collections ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member ◽  
General Director

On October 9, 1932, died Geheimrat Emeritus-Professor Dr. Karl Ritter Von Goebel, for forty years Professor of Botany in Munich (1891-1930); President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, General Director of the Scientific Collections of the State; Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and of the leading Academies of Europe and America. He was born March 8, 1855, at Billigheim, in Baden; but in the brief autobiography, which he wrote in 1921, he says, “ essentially, that is on the mother’s side, I am not only Swabian, but even a scion of Reutlingen citizenship.” It was in the Swabian Alp that he was first attracted towards the Science of Botany: “ The Swabian Alp won all my love,” he writes, “ and so it is to-day. Thither I have often gone, back and back again, from Munich. I have wandered about in the South American Andes, in the Indian Ghats, in the Brazilian Organ Mountains, the New Zealand Alps, and the Rocky Mountains of America. But the Alp, with its grand Flora, aroused in me even more than they did the love of Botany.” His last visit proved fatal; a broken shoulder was the result of an unlucky fall. He seemed at first to be on the road to recovery, but he sank under heart-failure. His beloved native hills saw the beginning and the end of his wonderful career as a Botanist.

Exchange of delegations between the Royal Society and The U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, 1965

1966 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-79
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mathematics Professor ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Initial Meeting ◽  
Foreign Member

At the invitation of the President of the Royal Society, a delegation from the U. S. S. R. Academy of Sciences, led by its President, Academician M. V. Keldysh, visited the United Kingdom from 9 to 27 February 1965. Other members of the delegation were Academician N. N. Semenov, Vice-President, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society; Academician N. M. Sisakyan, Chief Scientific Secretary; Academician N. N. Bogolyubov, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Mathematics; Professor N. F. Krasnov, Dr V. A. Filippov and Mr V. S. Vereshchetin, with Mr S. A.Sokolov and Dr N. A. Plate as interpreters. This visit was to enable Academician Keldysh and his colleagues to meet British scientists and see something of the work being done in universities and institutes in the United Kingdom, and to discuss the working of the Royal Society/U. S. S. R. Academy of Sciences agreement on scientific exchanges which had been in operation since 1956. An initial meeting to greet the delegation took place in the Society’s rooms on 10 February

scholarly journals Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society and Newton Tercentenary Celebrations, 30 November 1942

1943 ◽  
Vol 181 (986) ◽  
pp. 211-226
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Analytic Functions ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Commonwealth Of Nations ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
British Commonwealth Of Nations ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

Before proceeding to the presentation of the Medals awarded for this year, it is fitting that, in accordance with custom, we should briefly recall the lives and the achievements of those whom death has removed from our Fellowship and our Foreign Membership since the last Anniversary Meeting of the Society. His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, who died on 16 January at the advanced age of 91 years, was elected to our Fellowship under Statute 11 as long ago as 1906, so that he was by many years the senior of the members of the Royal Family who have accepted election to our Fellowship. His Royal Highness had other contacts with the advancement and the applications of scientific knowledge as President of the Royal Society of Arts, and of the Royal Colonial Institute. The latter appointment had a particular fitness in recognition of his many and great services to the British Commonwealth of Nations, as Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada and on other special missions. Emile Picard (1856-1941), perpetual secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences since 1917, had been a Foreign Member since 1909. He was one of the most famous of modern French mathematicians. He did work of fundamental importance in the theory of differential equations, the theory of algebraic functions of several variables, and the theory of surfaces and integrals associated with them; and ‘Picard’s theorem’ is one of the classical theorems of the theory of analytic functions.

scholarly journals Review of: The Reformation in Sweden: events, figures, documents. Moscow; St. Petersburg: Center for Humanitarian Initiatives, 2017. 384 p. (MEDIAEVALIA). ISBN 978-5-98712-770-4

2021 ◽  
pp. 320-327
Author(s):  
Евгений Шилов
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
World History ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

Андрей Джолинардович Щеглов - ведущий научный сотрудник Института всемирной истории РАН, историк-скандинавист, известный научными работами и переводами со шведского языка. Автор более сотни научных публикаций, иностранный член Шведского королевского общества по изданию рукописей, относящихся к скандинавской истории, переводчик классической шведской и финляндской поэзии (Карин Бойе, Гуннара Экелёфа, Юхана Людвига Рунберга). В 2002 г. им был опубликован в серии «Памятники исторической мысли» комментированный перевод рифмованной «Хроники Энгельбректа»1. В 2007 г. он явился одним из авторов коллективной монографии «Швеция и шведы в средневековых источниках»2, содержащей переводы и исследования памятников шведского средневековья и XVI в. В 2008 г. вышла в свет монография А. Д. Щеглова «Вестеросский риксдаг 1527 года и начало Реформации в Швеции»3. В 2012 г. был опубликован подготовленный А. Д. Щегловым комментированный перевод «Шведской хроники», написанной в XVI в. реформатором и историком Олаусом Петри4, а в 2016 г. вышли в свет переведённые и откомментированные «Шведские средневековые законы»5. В 2015 г. А. Д. Щеглов защитил докторскую диссертацию, на основе которой и была создана монография «Реформация в Швеции: события, деятели, документы». Andrey Jolinardovich Scheglov is a leading researcher at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Scandinavian historian known for his scholarly work and translations from Swedish. He is the author of more than a hundred scientific publications, a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Society for the publication of manuscripts relating to Scandinavian history, translator of classical Swedish and Finnish poetry (Karin Boye, Gunnar Ekelöf, Johan Ludvig Runberg). In 2002 he published a commentary translation of Engelbreckt's 1 Rhyming Chronicle in the 'Monuments of Historical Thought' series. In 2007 he became one of the authors of the collective monograph "Sweden and the Swedes in medieval sources, "2 containing translations and research monuments of the Swedish Middle Ages and the XVI century. In 2008, he published a monograph by AD Scheglov "Riksdag of Västerås in 1527 and the beginning of the Reformation in Sweden "3 . In 2012 A. D. Shcheglov published a commentary translation of the Swedish Chronicle written in the 16th century by the reformer and historian Olaus Petri4, and in 2016 the translated and commented Swedish Medieval Laws5 was published. In 2015. The Reformation in Sweden: Events, Actors, Documents.

scholarly journals Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall, 1871-1959

1960 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 169-181
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Scientific Academies ◽  
Royal Society Of London

In his great ‘History of applied entomology’, published in 1930, Dr L. O. Howard, for many years the most distinguished leader in this field, remarks on the apparent inability of academic men to realize the scientific interest of entomological studies having any practical significance. This attitude, he suggests, is indicated clearly enough by the failure of the great scientific academies in various countries to elect economic entomologists, as such, to their fellowships. He points out that although Antonio Berlese and Filippa Silvestri in Italy were early elected to the Academy of the Lincei and Paul Marchal in France to the Academy of Sciences, this was due to their achievements in pure entomology, that is, as a branch of zoology. Dr Howard himself was not elected to the American National Academy until his 59th year. ‘I have a suspicion’, he adds, ‘that, if it had been thoroughly understood by the members of the academy that he’ (the writer) ‘was so pronouncedly utilitarian in his work and his views, he might have failed.’ This attitude has not greatly changed. It may even be said, that from the standpoint of the entomologist, it has changed rather for the worse. There was a time when the great Academies looked with interest on the work of the entomological taxonomists on which the whole structure of entomological science is erected. They are still interested in investigators who use insects as material in genetics, physiology or biochemistry; but they are, in general, little interested in the entomologist who devotes himself to insects as insects. Perhaps this attitude has not notably impeded the advance of entomology; but it does tend to separate the Academies in a rather regrettable way from one of the main currents of biological work in which their influence would be beneficial and from which they themselves might draw some useful lessons. It is therefore a pleasure to record that the Royal Society of London, by its election of Guy Marshall as a Fellow, in 1923, recognized the important part he had already played in the development of applied entomology in the Commonwealth and thus provided him, during the many years of active work that were to follow, with the strong backing the Fellowship of the Society carries. I suspect that the arguments for Marshall’s election were drawn from his research in pure entomology and had to do chiefly with his experiments in relation to the theory of mimicry; but I do not wish to stress this point, preferring for once to say, that the end justified the means.

Address at the memorial service for Sir Frederick Bawden, Treas.R.S. at the Church of St James, Piccadilly on 16 March 1972

1973 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-180
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Memorial Service ◽  
Friday Evening ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Church ◽  
Full Pressure

FRED BAWDEN died after a short illness on 8 February. He had been unwell during the previous week, but carried on at full pressure because he was anxious to finish the Rothamsted annual report, which he managed to do on the Friday evening before his death. Those of us who worked with Fred at Rothamsted or at the Royal Society realized at once that we had lost a personal friend as well as the most distinguished agricultural scientist in the Commonwealth. From the many letters that have come in since his death it is evident that our feeling of loss is shared by scientists throughout the world. The common theme that runs through these messages are Bawden’s warmth and humour, his practical and helpful qualities and his contribution to both biology and agriculture.

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