List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1892

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Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1892. [1]

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Fellows

  1. Robert Young Armstrong (1839–1894)
  2. Frank Evers Beddard (1858–1925)
  3. Spencer Compton Cavendish [2] (1833–1908)
  4. John Ambrose Fleming [3] (1849–1945)
  5. Sir Clement le Neve Foster [4] (1841–1904)
  6. Hans Friedrich Gadow (1855–1928)
  7. Robert Giffen [5] (1837–1910)
  8. Francis Gotch (1853–1913)
  9. William Abbott Herdman [6] (1858–1924)
  10. Farrer Herschell (1837–1899)
  11. Frederick Hutton (1836–1905)
  12. John Joly [7] (1857–1933)
  13. Sir Joseph Larmor [8] [9] [10] (1857–1942)
  14. Louis Compton Miall [11] (1842–1921)
  15. John Morley (1838–1923)
  16. Benjamin Neeve Peach [12] (1842–1926)
  17. Alexander Pedler [13] [14] (1849–1918)
  18. Augustus Desiré Waller [15] (1856–1922)

Foreign members

  1. Wilhelm Kühne (1837–1900)
  2. Eleuthere Elie Nicolas Mascart (1837–1908)
  3. Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) published the first widely recognized periodic table in 1869
  4. Hubert Anson Newton [16] (1830–1896)

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References

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  2. "Cavendish, Spencer Compton, Lord Cavendish (CVNS850SC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Eccles, W. H. (1945). "John Ambrose Fleming. 1849–1945". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 5 (14): 231–242. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1945.0014. S2CID   192193265.
  4. b., B. H. (28 April 1904). "Sir Clement Le Neve Foster". Nature. 69 (1800): 614. Bibcode:1904Natur..69..614B. doi: 10.1038/069614a0 . S2CID   4023268.
  5. "Robert Giffen". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33396.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. "Herdman, Sir William Abbott (1858–1924), marine zoologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33832.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. "John Joly. 1857–1933". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 1 (3): 258–286. 1934. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1934.0010.
  8. Eddington, A. S. (1942). "Joseph Larmor. 1857–1942". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . 4 (11): 197–207. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.1942.0016 .
  9. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Joseph Larmor", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive , University of St Andrews
  10. Warwick, A. (1993). "Frequency, Theorem and Formula: Remembering Joseph Larmor in Electromagnetic Theory". Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 47 (1): 49–60. doi:10.1098/rsnr.1993.0005. ISSN   0035-9149. S2CID   124014429.
  11. Baker, R. A.; Bayliss, R. A. (1983). "Louis Compton Miall, F.R.S.: Scientist and Educator 1842–1921". Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 37 (2): 201–234. doi:10.1098/rsnr.1983.0011. ISSN   0035-9149. S2CID   146728612.
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  13. "Pedler, Sir Alexander (1849–1918), chemist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48706.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  14. T., W. A. (1918). "Sir Alexander Pedler, F.R.S." Nature. 101 (2534): 227–228. Bibcode:1918Natur.101..227W. doi: 10.1038/101227b0 . ISSN   0028-0836.
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  16. List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1892 at the Mathematics Genealogy Project