Joseph Wilson Swan
1828 - 1914
- Born
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31 October 1828
Pallion Hall, near Sunderland, Durham, England
- Died
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27/05/1914
Overhill, Warlingham, Surrey, England
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 07/06/1894
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 66
- Fields of Interest
- Chemist and inventor
- Occupation
- Physicist, chemist and inventor
- Relationships
- Parents: John Swan (b. 1794/5) and Isabella, née Cameron. Spouse: 1) Frances (1829/30–1868), school teacher, daughter of a Liverpool merchant, William White (1862) 2) Hannah White, his deceased wife's sister (1871) Children: Three children from his first marriage, and five children from his second marriage.
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Author of
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Unpublished paper, 'Physiological inferences derived from human and comparative anatomy respecting the origins of the nerves; the cerebellum and the striated bodies' by Joseph Wilson Swan
Creator: Joseph Wilson Swan Reference number: AP/26/17 -
Paper, 'On some voltaic combinations with a fused electrolyte and a gaseous depolariser' by Joseph Wilson Swan
Creator: Joseph Wilson Swan Reference number: PP/24/5 -
Paper, 'Measurements of the absolute specific resistance of pure electrolytic copper' by Joseph Wilson Swan and J Rhodin
Creator: Joseph Wilson Swan, J Rhodin Reference number: PP/24/6 -
Letter from Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'Stress and other effects produced in resin and in a viscid compound of resin and oil by electrification' by Joseph Wilson Swan to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society
Creator: Silvanus Phillips Thompson Reference number: RR/13/274 -
Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'Stress and other effects produced in resin and in a viscid compound of resin and oil by electrification' by Joseph Wilson Swan
Creator: Silvanus Phillips Thompson Reference number: RR/13/275
Referee of
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Referee's report by Joseph Wilson Swan, on a paper 'On the nerves of the uterus' by Thomas Snow Beck
Creator: Joseph Wilson Swan Reference number: RR/1/19
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
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