R V Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 5143556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R V Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | R V |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES R V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 10 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Address at the memorial service for Sir David Christie Martin (1914- 1976) at St Columba’s Church of Scotland, London on 9 February 1977
Great institutions survive and remain great, not of their own momentum, but through the devotion of those who serve them. And no man ever showed more devotion to the Royal Society, and to all it has stood for during m ore than three centuries, than David Martin whose memory we are met this day to honour. Born in Kirkcaldy he spent his whole working life in England but never lost either the accent of his native Fife or the unaffected warm thin hum…
Dr Thomas Beddoes and the establishment of his Pneumatic Institution
In 1793 Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) moved from Oxford to Bristol where he worked to found his Pneumatic Institution. Davies Giddy (Gilbert) (1767-1839), once his protege and subsequently President of the Royal Society, supported Beddoes in this enterprise. He recommended young Humphry Davy (1778-1829), another future P.R.S., as superintendent of the Institution’s Laboratory. Joseph Banks (1743-1820), P.R.S., firmly witheld his name and his purs…
Halley’s Atheism and the end of the world
Edmond Halley’s views on theology and natural philosophy have often drawn puzzled attention both from his contemporaries and from subsequent scholars. There has seemed to be a contrast between some public statements he made when under pressure from ecclesiastical authority, and his continued, and privately-held, faith in the over-arching relevance of science (1). However, it now emerges from some unpublished papers which Halley read to the Royal …
What did Charles II call the Fellows of the Royal Society
I have shown elsewhere that in 1660 and 1661 both Robert Southwell (1635-1702, later Sir Robert and P.R.S.), and Sir John Finch (1626-1682) tried to establish a correspondence between the virtuosi in England and in Florence, more especially between Prince Leopold de’ Medici and Robert Boyle, by far the most widely known English man of science at that time. For some mysterious reason the desired correspondence did not take place; Boyle did not wri…
The contribution of A. A. Campbell Swinton, F. R. S. to television
The fortieth anniversary of the initiation in 1936 by the British Broadcasting Corporation of the London high definition television service, the first such regular public service in the world, has produced a rash of reminiscences about the origin of television and the question is inevitably asked: ‘who invented television?’ The answer, of course, is no single individual invented television but a whole army of scientists and engineers each made a …
The Society's notes
Obituary (continued from Vol. 31, p. 311), 1976 Award of Medals 1976 Election of Fellows 1977
Bibliography of recent books and articles dealing with the history of the Royal Society
Each number of Notes and Records contains a short bibliography of books and articles dealing with the history of the Royal Society or its Fellows which have been noted since the publication of the last number. If Fellows would be good enough to draw the Editors’ attention to omissions these would be added to the list in the next issue
Science, technology and education
My lecture is about the diffusion of science and technology, through education, into the culture and economy of a society. As the journal Nature wrote early in 1870, ‘Education and science so naturally associate themselves in the mind that it is hardly possible to discuss the latter as independent of the former’. Here historians of science find common territory with economic and social historians, political historians, historians of education and…
Anniversary Dinner 1976
It is an uncommon honor to be invited, by the President of The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge to offer the annual toast. I am deeply appreciative of this high privilege. On the occasion of the tercentenary of this Society, my great and good predecessor, Detlev Bronk, dispatched to you the following greetings from the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: This 300th anniversary of your foundation is…
On the education of Darwin’s sons
On 29 January 1839 Charles Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood. Eleven months later, on 27 December, their first child, William Erasmus (1839-1914), was born. During the next seventeen years Charles and Emma became parents nine times over. Anne Elizabeth (1841-1851) died tragically in her eleventh year. Mary Eleanor lived less than a month in 1842. Henrietta Emma (1843-1927) often seemed about to expire, but married quite happily and spent he…
Knowledge and power
Delusions in Defence
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II Temptations and risks of the scientific adviser
Scientists as an inferior class
Scientists and statesmen
Incidence of Gastric and Duodenal Ulcer in the Royal Navy in 1955
Incidence of Gastric and Duodenal Ulcer in the British Army in 1955
No estimate of the prevalence of gastric and duodenal ulcer is entirely satisfactory. It has been generally felt however that there has been a great increase in the incidence of duodenal ulcer in the last three decades. In the first world war up to the end of 1915 (i.e. in 16 months), there were 109 medical discharges from the Army for inflammation and ulceration of the stomach. In World War II up to the end of 1941 (i.e. in 28 months), there wer…
Incidence of Gastric and Duodenal Ulcer in the British Army in 1955
No estimate of the prevalence of gastric and duodenal ulcer is entirely satisfactory. It has been generally felt however that there has been a great increase in the incidence of duodenal ulcer in the last three decades. In the first world war up to the end of 1915 (i.e. in 16 months), there were 109 medical discharges from the Army for inflammation and ulceration of the stomach. In World War II up to the end of 1941 (i.e. in 28 months), there wer…
Incidence of Gastric and Duodenal Ulcer in the Royal Navy in 1955
Scientists and statesmen
Scientists as an inferior class
II Temptations and risks of the scientific adviser
Delusions in Defence
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Knowledge and power
Address at the memorial service for Sir David Christie Martin (1914- 1976) at St Columba’s Church of Scotland, London on 9 February 1977
Great institutions survive and remain great, not of their own momentum, but through the devotion of those who serve them. And no man ever showed more devotion to the Royal Society, and to all it has stood for during m ore than three centuries, than David Martin whose memory we are met this day to honour. Born in Kirkcaldy he spent his whole working life in England but never lost either the accent of his native Fife or the unaffected warm thin hum…
Dr Thomas Beddoes and the establishment of his Pneumatic Institution
In 1793 Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) moved from Oxford to Bristol where he worked to found his Pneumatic Institution. Davies Giddy (Gilbert) (1767-1839), once his protege and subsequently President of the Royal Society, supported Beddoes in this enterprise. He recommended young Humphry Davy (1778-1829), another future P.R.S., as superintendent of the Institution’s Laboratory. Joseph Banks (1743-1820), P.R.S., firmly witheld his name and his purs…
Halley’s Atheism and the end of the world
Edmond Halley’s views on theology and natural philosophy have often drawn puzzled attention both from his contemporaries and from subsequent scholars. There has seemed to be a contrast between some public statements he made when under pressure from ecclesiastical authority, and his continued, and privately-held, faith in the over-arching relevance of science (1). However, it now emerges from some unpublished papers which Halley read to the Royal …
What did Charles II call the Fellows of the Royal Society
I have shown elsewhere that in 1660 and 1661 both Robert Southwell (1635-1702, later Sir Robert and P.R.S.), and Sir John Finch (1626-1682) tried to establish a correspondence between the virtuosi in England and in Florence, more especially between Prince Leopold de’ Medici and Robert Boyle, by far the most widely known English man of science at that time. For some mysterious reason the desired correspondence did not take place; Boyle did not wri…
The contribution of A. A. Campbell Swinton, F. R. S. to television
The fortieth anniversary of the initiation in 1936 by the British Broadcasting Corporation of the London high definition television service, the first such regular public service in the world, has produced a rash of reminiscences about the origin of television and the question is inevitably asked: ‘who invented television?’ The answer, of course, is no single individual invented television but a whole army of scientists and engineers each made a …
The Society's notes
Obituary (continued from Vol. 31, p. 311), 1976 Award of Medals 1976 Election of Fellows 1977
Bibliography of recent books and articles dealing with the history of the Royal Society
Each number of Notes and Records contains a short bibliography of books and articles dealing with the history of the Royal Society or its Fellows which have been noted since the publication of the last number. If Fellows would be good enough to draw the Editors’ attention to omissions these would be added to the list in the next issue
Science, technology and education
My lecture is about the diffusion of science and technology, through education, into the culture and economy of a society. As the journal Nature wrote early in 1870, ‘Education and science so naturally associate themselves in the mind that it is hardly possible to discuss the latter as independent of the former’. Here historians of science find common territory with economic and social historians, political historians, historians of education and…
Anniversary Dinner 1976
It is an uncommon honor to be invited, by the President of The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge to offer the annual toast. I am deeply appreciative of this high privilege. On the occasion of the tercentenary of this Society, my great and good predecessor, Detlev Bronk, dispatched to you the following greetings from the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: This 300th anniversary of your foundation is…
On the education of Darwin’s sons
On 29 January 1839 Charles Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood. Eleven months later, on 27 December, their first child, William Erasmus (1839-1914), was born. During the next seventeen years Charles and Emma became parents nine times over. Anne Elizabeth (1841-1851) died tragically in her eleventh year. Mary Eleanor lived less than a month in 1842. Henrietta Emma (1843-1927) often seemed about to expire, but married quite happily and spent he…
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