Charles Vernon Boys
1855 - 1944
- Born
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15 March 1855
The rectory, Wing, Uppingham, Rutland, England, United Kingdom
- Died
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30 March 1944
St Mary Bourne, Andover, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 07/06/1888
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 33
- Fields of Interest
- Physics
- Occupation
- Physicist and inventor
- Relationships
- Parents Reverend Charles Boys and Caroline Goodrich Dobbie. Spouse: Marion Amelia, granddaughter of Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock (FRS 1816); they divorced in 1910. Children:
- Catalogue
- View catalogue entry
- Wikipedia
- View wikipedia entry
Author of
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Paper, 'Preliminary note on the "radio-micrometer" a new instrument for measuring the most feeble radiation' by C V [Charles Vernon] Boys
Creator: Charles Vernon Boys Reference number: PP/10/24 -
Paper, 'On the Cavendish experiment' by C V [Charles Vernon] Boys
Creator: Charles Vernon Boys Reference number: PP/14/21 -
Paper, 'On the heat of the Moon and stars' by Charles Vernon Boys
Creator: Charles Vernon Boys Reference number: PP/15/33 -
Referee's report by William De Wiveleslie Abney, on a paper 'The radio-micrometer' by Charles Vernon Boys
Creator: William de Wiveleslie Abney Reference number: RR/10/123 -
Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'The radio-micrometer' by Charles Vernon Boys
Creator: Arthur Schuster Reference number: RR/10/124 -
Detailed referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'The radio-micrometer' by Charles Vernon Boys
Creator: Arthur Schuster Reference number: RR/10/126
Referee of
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Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Some measures of Young’s modulus for crystals' by Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock
Creator: Charles Vernon Boys Reference number: RR/11/69 -
Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On a determination of the mean density of the Earth and the gravitation constant by means of the common balance' by John Henry Poynting
Creator: Charles Vernon Boys Reference number: RR/11/77 -
Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On the mechanical stretching of liquids: an experimental determination of the volume-extensibility of ethyl-alcohol' by Arthur Mason Worthington
Creator: Charles Vernon Boys Reference number: RR/11/224 -
Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'A magnetic detector of electrical waves and some of its applications' by Ernest Rutherford
Creator: Charles Vernon Boys Reference number: RR/13/107 -
Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'Impact with a liquid surface, studied by the aid of instantaneous photography' by Arthur Mason Worthington and R C Cole
Creator: Charles Vernon Boys Reference number: RR/13/159 -
Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'On the thermal conductivities of single and mixed solids and liquids and their variation with temperature' by Charles Herbert Lees
Creator: Charles Vernon Boys Reference number: RR/13/210