List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1891

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Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1891. [1]

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Fellows

  1. William Anderson (1835–1898)
  2. Frederick Orpen Bower [2] (1855–1948)
  3. John Conroy (1845–1900)
  4. Daniel John Cunningham [3] (1850–1909)
  5. George Mercer Dawson [4] (1849–1901)
  6. Edwin Bailey Elliott [5] (1851–1937)
  7. Percy Faraday Frankland [6] [7] (1858–1946)
  8. Percy Carlyle Gilchrist (1851–1935) [8]
  9. William Dobinson Halliburton [9] [10] [11] (1860–1931)
  10. James Hannen [12] (1821–1894)
  11. Oliver Heaviside [13] [14] [15] [16] (1850–1925)
  12. William Lawies Jackson [17] (1840–1917)
  13. John Edward Marr [18] [19] (1857–1933)
  14. Ludwig Mond (1839–1909)
  15. Sir William Napier Shaw [20] (1854–1945)
  16. Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1851–1916)
  17. Thomas Henry Tizard (1839–1924)

Foreign members

  1. Alexander Agassiz (1835–1910) ForMemRS
  2. Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824–1896) ForMemRS
  3. Eduard Adolf Strasburger [21] (1844–1912) ForMemRS
  4. Pietro Tacchini [22] (1838–1905) ForMemRS

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References

  1. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-03-16.
  2. ↑ Lang, W. H. (1949). "Fredrick Orpen Bower. 1855–1948". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 6 (18): 346–374. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1949.0002. JSTOR   768929. S2CID   162245715.
  3. ↑ Kaufman, M. H. (2008). "Daniel John Cunningham (1850–1909): anatomist and textbook author, whose sons achieved distinction in the Army, Navy and Indian Medical Service". Journal of Medical Biography. 16 (1): 30–35. doi:10.1258/jmb.2006.006058. ISSN   0967-7720. PMID   18463062. S2CID   7428475.
  4. ↑ "Dawson, George Mercer (1849–1901), geologist and anthropologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32753.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ↑ Turnbull, H. W. (1938). "Edwin Bailey Elliott. 1851–1937". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 2 (6): 424–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0026.
  6. ↑ Garner, William Edward (1948). "Percy Faraday Frankland. 1858–1946". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 5 (16): 697–715. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1948.0007. JSTOR   768766. S2CID   177495132.
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  8. ↑ Carpenter, H. C. H. (1936). "Percy Carlyle Gilchrist. 1851–1935". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 2 (5): 19–99. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1936.0002.
  9. ↑ Morgan, N. (1983). "William Dobinson on Halliburton, F.R.S. (1860–1931): Pioneer of British Biochemistry?". Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 38 (1): 129–145. doi: 10.1098/rsnr.1983.0005 . ISSN   0035-9149. PMID   11615943.
  10. ↑ "Halliburton, William Dobinson (1860–1931), physiologist and biochemist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33659.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ↑ "William Dobinson Haaliburton, 1860–1931". Biochemical Journal. 26 (2): 269–271. 1932. doi:10.1042/bj0260269. PMC   1260900 .
  12. ↑ "Hannen, James, Baron Hannen (1821–1894), judge". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12216.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ↑ Anon (1926). "Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased: Rudolph Messel, Frederick Thomas Trouton, John Venn, John Young Buchanan, Oliver Heaviside, Andrew Gray". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 110 (756): i–v. Bibcode:1926RSPSA.110D...1.. doi: 10.1098/rspa.1926.0036 .
  14. ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Oliver Heaviside", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive , University of St Andrews
  15. ↑ Hunt, Bruce J. (2012). "Oliver Heaviside: A first-rate oddity". Physics Today. 65 (11): 48–54. Bibcode:2012PhT....65k..48H. doi: 10.1063/PT.3.1788 . ISSN   0031-9228.
  16. ↑ "Heaviside, Oliver (1850–1925), physicist and electrical engineer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33796.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  17. ↑ "Jackson, William Lawies, first Baron Allerton (1840–1917), politician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34141.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  18. ↑ "John Edward Marr. 1857–1933". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 1 (3): 250–257. 1934. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.1934.0009 .
  19. ↑ "Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (1851–1916), physicist and electrical engineer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36496.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  20. ↑ Gold, E. (1945). "William Napier Shaw. 1854–1945". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 5 (14): 203–230. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1945.0013. S2CID   162320211.
  21. ↑ Volkmann, Dieter; Baluška, František; Menzel, Diedrik (2012). "Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912): founder of modern plant cell biology". Protoplasma. 249 (4): 1163–1172. doi:10.1007/s00709-012-0406-6. ISSN   0033-183X. PMID   22543688. S2CID   16145146.
  22. ↑ Riccó, A. (1905). "Pietro Tacchini". The Astrophysical Journal. 22: 1–4. Bibcode:1905ApJ....22....1R. doi:10.1086/141236.
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