John William Nicholson

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John William Nicholson
Born	(1881-11-01)1 November 1881 Darlington, Great Britain
Died	3 October 1955(1955-10-03) (aged 73)
Residence	Great Britain
Nationality	Great Britain
Fields	Mathematician
Notable awards	Adams Prize (1919) FRS (1917)^[1]

John William Nicholson, FRS^[1] (1 November 1881 – 3 October 1955) was an English mathematician.

Career

Based on the results of astronomical spectroscopy of nebula he proposed in 1911 the existence of several yet undiscovered elements. Coronium with an atomic weight of 0.51282, nebulium with a weight of 1.6281 and protofluorine with a weight of 2.361.^[1] Ira Sprague Bowen was able to attribute the spectroscopical lines to doubly ionized oxygen making the new elements obsolete for their explanation.^[2]

Awards and honours

Nicholson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1917.^[1] In 1919, Nicholson won the Adams Prize.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Wilson, W. (1956). "John William Nicholson 1881-1955". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2: 209. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1956.0014. JSTOR 769485.
↑ Bowen, I. S. (1927). "The Origin of the Nebulium Spectrum". Nature 120 (3022): 473. doi:10.1038/120473a0.

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Name	Nicholson, John William
Alternative names
Short description	Mathematician.
Date of birth	(1881-11-01)1 November 1881
Place of birth	Darlington, Great Britain
Date of death	3 October 1955(1955-10-03)
Place of death

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