James Dewar
1842 - 1923
- Born
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20 September 1842
Kincardine-on-Forth, Fife, Scotland
- Died
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27/03/1923
Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, England
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 07/06/1877
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 35
- Occupation
- Chemist and physicist
- Relationships
- Parents: Thomas Dewar, vintner, and Ann Eadie, daughter of a shipowner. Spouse: Helen Rose, daughter of William Banks (1871).
- Catalogue
- View catalogue entry
- Wikipedia
- View wikipedia entry
Author of
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Paper, 'Note on the reversal of the spectrum of cyanogen' by G D [George Downing] Liveing and [James] Dewar
Creator: George Downing Liveing, James Dewar Reference number: PP/1/2 -
Paper, 'Manometric observations in the electric arc' by [James] Dewar
Creator: James Dewar Reference number: PP/1/22 -
Paper, 'On the spectrum of water, No. II' by G D [George Downing] Liveing and J [James] Dewar
Creator: George Downing Liveing, James Dewar Reference number: PP/1/24 -
Paper, 'On the spectrum of carbon' by G D [George Downing] Liveing and J [James] Dewar
Creator: George Downing Liveing, James Dewar Reference number: PP/1/32 -
Paper, 'On the disappearance of some spectral lines and the variations of metallic spectra due to mixed vapours' by G D [George Downing] Liveing and J [James] Dewar
Creator: George Downing Liveing, James Dewar Reference number: PP/1/36 -
Paper, 'On an arrangement of the electric arc for the study of the radiation of vapours' by [George Downing] Liveing and [James] Dewar
Creator: George Downing Liveing, James Dewar Reference number: PP/2/16
Referee of
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Referee's report by James Dewar, on a paper 'Researches on the action of organic substances on the ultra-violet rays of the spectrum' by Walter Noel Hartley and Alfred Kirby Huntington
Creator: James Dewar Reference number: RR/8/161 -
Referee's report by George Downing Liveing and James Dewar, on a paper 'On the absorption spectra of cobalt salts' by William James Russell
Creator: George Downing Liveing, James Dewar Reference number: RR/8/256 -
Referee's report by James Dewar, on a paper 'Researches on chemical equivalence. Part IV and V' by Edmund James Mills
Creator: James Dewar Reference number: RR/9/73 -
Letter from James Dewar, on a paper 'On melting point' by Edmund James Mills to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Creator: James Dewar Reference number: RR/9/75 -
Referee's report by James Dewar, on a paper 'On melting point' by Edmund James Mills
Creator: James Dewar Reference number: RR/9/76 -
Referee's report by James Dewar, on a paper 'On the solubility of salts in water at high temperatures' by William Augustus Tilden and William Ashwell Shenstone
Creator: James Dewar Reference number: RR/9/241