Balfour Stewart
1828 - 1887
- Born
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01 November 1828
Edinburgh, Scotland
- Died
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19 December 1887
Ballymagarvey, near Drogheda, Ireland
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 05/06/1862
- Relationships
- Son of William Stewart, tea merchant, of Leith, and his wife Hane, daughter of Rev William Clouston; married (08 September 1863) Katharine, daughter of Charles Stevens, lawyer, of London
- Catalogue
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Paper, 'Description of an instrument for registering changes of temperature' by Balfour Stewart
Creator: Balfour Stewart Reference number: AP/38/32 -
Supporting data, 'Heliographical positions' by [Warren] De La Rue, [Balfour] Stewart and [Benjamin] Loewy
Creator: Warren de la Rue, Balfour Stewart Reference number: AP/50/2 -
Unpublished paper, 'Researches on solar physics no. II. Account of some recent observations on sunspots made at the Kew Observatory [London]' by Warren de la Rue, Balfour Stewart and Benjamin Loewy
Creator: Warren de la Rue, Balfour Stewart Reference number: AP/51/4 -
Unpublished paper, 'Researches on solar physics III' by Warren de la Rue, Balfour Stewart and Benjamin Loewy
Creator: Warren de la Rue, Balfour Stewart Reference number: AP/55/4 -
Paper, 'Preliminary report to the Solar Physics Committee on [incomplete]' by Balfour Stewart
Creator: Balfour Stewart Reference number: PP/1/33 -
Paper, 'On the connexion between the state of the Sun's surface and the horizontal intensity of the Earth's magnetism' by Balfour Stewart
Creator: Balfour Stewart Reference number: PP/2/36
Referee of
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Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'Numerical elements of Indian meteorology' by Hermann De Schlagintweit
Creator: Balfour Stewart Reference number: RR/5/238 -
Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the solar variations of magnetic declination at Bombay' by Charles Chambers
Creator: Balfour Stewart Reference number: RR/6/70 -
Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the expansion by heat of water and mercury' by Augustus Matthiessen
Creator: Balfour Stewart Reference number: RR/6/170 -
Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the expansion by heat of metals and alloys' by Augustus Matthiessen
Creator: Balfour Stewart Reference number: RR/6/171
Recipient of
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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Balfour Stewart, dated at Glasgow
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/24/253
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
3 letters