IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 817
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Rucker, Sir Arthur William (1848-1915)
Date(s): late 19th century and early 20th century
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Rucker | Sir | Arthur William | 1848-1915 | Knight | physicist
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1848; Education: Brasenose College, Oxford. BA (1871), MA (1874); Career: Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford (1871-1876); Professor of Physics, Yorkshire College, Leeds (1874-1885); Professor of Physics, Royal College of Science, London (1886-1901); Fellow of the Royal Society, 1884; Royal Society Royal Medal, 1891; Secretary of the Royal Society Council, 1896-1901; died, 1915.
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Letters to Sir Arthur Rucker, his wife and daughter, during the late 19th and early 20th century; many of them from scientists, including J J Thompson, William Huggins, Aston Webb, David Gill, N S Maskelyne, A Geikie. Together with assorted notes and ephemera.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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Open
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.