List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1879

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Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1879. [1]

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Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS)

  1. John Anderson [2] (1833-1900)
  2. Miles Joseph Berkeley [3] (1803-1889)
  3. Henry Bessemer (1813-1898)
  4. Alexander Crum Brown [4] (1838-1922)
  5. Walter Lawry Buller (1838-1906)
  6. Francis Stephen Bennet Francois de Chaumont (1833-1888)
  7. Richard Assheton Cross [5] (1823-1914)
  8. George Howard Darwin [6] (1845-1912)
  9. Joseph David Everett (1831-1904)
  10. George Downing Liveing [7] (1827-1924)
  11. George Matthey [8] (1825-1913)
  12. George John Romanes [9] (1848-1894)
  13. Arthur Schuster [10] [11] (1851-1934)
  14. Harry Govier Seeley [12] (1839-1909)
  15. Benjamin Williamson (1827-1916)
  16. Thomas Wright [13] (1809-1884)

Foreign Members of the Royal Society (ForMemRS)

  1. Arthur Auwers [14] (1838-1915)
  2. Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810-1892)
  3. Luigi Cremona [15] [16] (1830-1903)
  4. Georg Hermann Quincke [17] (1834-1924)
  5. Theodor Ambrose Hubert Schwann (1810-1882)
  6. Jean-Servais Stas [18] (1813-1891)

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References

  1. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-03-16.
  2. ↑ "John Anderson". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/489.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ "Miles Joseph Berkeley (BRKY820MJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ↑ Edgar F. Smith; W. R. Dunstan; B. A. Keen; Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1923). "Obituary notices: Charles Baskerville, 1870–1922; Alexander Crum Brown, 1838–1922; Charles Mann Luxmoore, 1857–1922; Edward Williams Morley, 1838–1923; William Thomson, 1851–1923". J. Chem. Soc., Trans. 123: 3421–3441. doi:10.1039/CT9232303421.
  5. ↑ "Richard Assheton Cross". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32644.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "George Howard Darwin", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive , University of St Andrews .
  7. ↑ Pope, W. J. (24 January 1925). "Obituary: G. D. Liveing, F.R.S.". Nature. 115: 127–129. Bibcode:1925Natur.115..127P. doi:10.1038/115127a0.
  8. ↑ "George Matthey". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47907.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. ↑ "George John Romanes (1848–94)". Nature. 161 (4098): 757–757. 1948. Bibcode:1948Natur.161S.757.. doi:10.1038/161757c0. ISSN   0028-0836.
  10. ↑ Simpson, G. C. (1935). "Sir Arthur Schuster. 1851-1934". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 1 (4): 408. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1935.0006. JSTOR   768973.
  11. ↑ Chapman, S. (1934). "Arthur Schuster, 1851–1934". Journal of Geophysical Research. 39 (4): 341. Bibcode:1934TeMAE..39..341C. doi:10.1029/TE039i004p00341. ISSN   0148-0227.
  12. ↑ L., R. (1909). "Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S.". Nature. 79 (2046): 314–315. Bibcode:1909Natur..79..314L. doi:10.1038/079314b0. ISSN   0028-0836.
  13. ↑ Wikisource-logo.svg "Wright, Thomas (1809-1884), British palaeontologist". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
  14. ↑ Sticker, Bernhard (1970). "Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von". Dictionary of Scientific Biography . 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 339–340. ISBN   0-684-10114-9.
  15. ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Luigi Cremona", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive , University of St Andrews .
  16. ↑ Luigi Cremona at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  17. ↑ Georg Hermann Quincke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  18. ↑ Morley, Edward W. (1892). "Jean Servais Stas". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 14 (7): 173–189. doi:10.1021/ja02123a012. ISSN   0002-7863.
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