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William George Penney

1909 - 1991

Born: 24/06/1909
Died: 03/03/1991
Gender: Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship: 21/03/1946
Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship: 36
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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The theory of the structure of ethylene and a note on the structure of ethane' by William George Penney
Creator: Charles Galton Darwin Reference number: RR/50/83
Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The theory of the stability of the benzene ring and related compounds' by William George Penney
Creator: Ralph Howard Fowler Reference number: RR/54/82
Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'On the relation between the form, force constants, and vibration frequencies of triatomic systems' by William George Penney and Gordon Brims Black Mcivor Sutherland
Creator: Douglas Rayner Hartree Reference number: RR/60/41
Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'On the assignment of the fundamental vibration frequencies in O3, F2O, Cl2O, NO, and N3-' by Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland and William George Penney
Creator: Douglas Rayner Hartree Reference number: RR/62/37
Referee's report by Edward George Bowen, on a paper 'On the heat of sublimation of carbon and on some absorption bands of three mesomeric hydrocarbons' by G J Kynch and William George Penney
Creator: Edward George Bowen Reference number: RR/68/101
Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The dissociation energies of CO, N2, NO and CN' by Alfred Gordon Gaydon and William George Penney
Creator: Owen Willans Richardson Reference number: RR/68/468

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Referee's report by William George Penney, Baron Penney of East Hendred, on a paper 'The occurrence and properties of molecular vibrations with V(x) = ax4' by Ronald Percy Bell
Creator: William George Penney Reference number: RR/68/271
Referee's report by William George Penney, Baron Penney of East Hendred, on a paper 'The structure of the reaction zone in a flame' by Samuel Francis Boys and J Corner
Creator: William George Penney Reference number: RR/71/47
Referee's report by William George Penney, Baron Penney of East Hendred, on a paper 'On the bond lengths and interatomic distances in certain molecules and crystals' by William Hume-Rothery
Creator: William George Penney Reference number: RR/71/157
Referee's report by William George Penney, Baron Penney of East Hendred, on a paper 'Splashes from underwater explosions' by H Kolsky, J P Lewis, M T Sampson, A C Shearman and C I Snow
Creator: William George Penney Reference number: RR/71/168
Referee's report by William George Penney, Baron Penney of East Hendred, on a paper 'The diffraction of blast. I' by Michael James Lighthill
Creator: William George Penney Reference number: RR/71/179
Referee's report by William George Penney, on two papers 'Electronic wave functions - I. A general method of calculation for the stationary states of any molecular system' and 'Electronic wave functions II. A calculation for the ground state of the beryllium atom' by Samuel Francis Boys
Creator: William George Penney Reference number: RR/72/42

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Letter from John Edward Lennard-Jones, on three papers 'Electronic wave functions. III. Some theorems on integrals of antisymmetric functions of equivalent orbital form', 'Electronic wave functions. IV. Some general theorems for the calculation of Schrodinger integrals between complicated vector coupled functions for many electron atoms' and 'Electronic wave functions. V. Systematic reduction methods for all Schrodinger integrals of conventional systems of antisymmetric vector coupled functions' by Samuel Francis Boys, to William George Penney
Reference number: RR/73/241

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John Edward Lennard-Jones
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