Royal Society obituaries


From about 1850 onwards the London Royal Society published obituaries of their fellows.
From 1934 onwards these were presented in separate volumes.

More than 250 mathematicians in our archive have such obituaries.

Because of the way the older obituaries are presented, it may be necessary to scroll down past other entries.

A list of the obituaries in Chronological order of their publication is at THIS LINK.

Click on the name for the MacTutor biography and on RSO for the Royal Society obituary.


A
Adams, FrankRSO
Airy, GeorgeRSO
Aitken, AlecRSO
Alfvén, HannesRSO
Allman, GeorgeRSO
B
Baker, HenryRSO
Baker, AlanRSO
Ball, RobertRSO
Barkla, Charles GloverRSO
Barlow, PeterRSO
Barnes, Ernest WilliamRSO
Bartlett, MauriceRSO
Basset, Alfred BarnardRSO
Batchelor, GeorgeRSO
Bateman, HarryRSO
Bell, JohnRSO
Benjamin, BrookeRSO
Besicovitch, Abram RSO
Bethe, HansRSO
Biot, Jean-BaptisteRSO
Bjerknes, VilhelmRSO
Bohr, NielsRSO
Boltzmann, LudwigRSO
Bondi, HermannRSO
Bonsall, FrankRSO
Boole, GeorgeRSO
Born, MaxRSO
Bose, SatyendranathRSO
Bott, RaoulRSO
Box, GeorgeRSO
Broglie, Louis deRSO
Bromwich, ThomasRSO
Brouwer, L E JRSO
Brown, ErnestRSO
Burkill, J CRSO
Burnside, WilliamRSO
C
Campbell, JohnRSO
Cartan, ÉlieRSO
Cartan, HenriRSO
Cartwright, MaryRSO
Casey, JohnRSO
Cassels, J W SRSO
Cauchy, Augustin-LouisRSO
Cayley, ArthurRSO
Chandrasekhar, SubrahmanyanRSO
Chapman, SydneyRSO
Chern, Shiing-shenRSO
Chree, CharlesRSO
Clausius, RudolfRSO
Cockle, JamesRSO
Cohn, PaulRSO
Collingwood, EdwardRSO
Conway, JohnRSO
Conway, ArthurRSO
Coulson, CharlesRSO
Coxeter, DonaldRSO
Cremona, LuigiRSO
D
Darwin, Charles GaltonRSO
Darboux, GastonRSO
Darwin, GeorgeRSO
Davenport, HaroldRSO
Valera, Éamon deRSO
Delaunay, Charles EugèneRSO
Dirac, PaulRSO
Dirichlet, LejeuneRSO
Dixon, AlfredRSO
Dixon, Arthur LeeRSO
Dyson, FreemanRSO
E
Eddington, ArthurRSO
Einstein, AlbertRSO
Elliott, EdwinRSO
Erdélyi, ArthurRSO
Erdős, PaulRSO
F
Faddeev, LudwigRSO
Faraday, MichaelRSO
Fermi, EnricoRSO
Feynman, RichardRSO
Fields, John CharlesRSO
Filon, Louis N GRSO
Fisher, R ARSO
FitzGerald, GeorgeRSO
Foucault, LéonRSO
Fowler, RalphRSO
Fröhlich, AlbrechtRSO
Frost, PercivalRSO
G
Gauss, Carl FriedrichRSO
Gibbs, J WillardRSO
Glaisher, James Whitbread LeeRSO
Gödel, KurtRSO
Goldstein, SydneyRSO
Gompertz, BenjaminRSO
Graves, CharlesRSO
Graves, John TRSO
Gray, AndrewRSO
Greaves, WilliamRSO
Greenhill, GeorgeRSO
H
Hadamard, JacquesRSO
Hall, PhilipRSO
Hammersley, JohnRSO
Hardy, G HRSO
Harish-Chandra, RSO
Hartree, DouglasRSO
Haughton, SamuelRSO
Hawking, StephenRSO
Heath, ThomasRSO
Heaviside, OliverRSO
Heilbronn, HansRSO
Heisenberg, WernerRSO
Helmholtz, Hermann vonRSO
Hermite, CharlesRSO
Herschel, JohnRSO
Higman, GrahamRSO
Hilbert, DavidRSO
Hirst, ThomasRSO
Hirzebruch, FriedrichRSO
Hobson, ErnestRSO
Hodge, WilliamRSO
Hogben, LancelotRSO
Hopkinson, JohnRSO
Hoyle, FredRSO
J
Jeans, JamesRSO
Jeffery, GeorgeRSO
Jeffreys, HaroldRSO
Jevons, StanleyRSO
Johnson, BarryRSO
Joly, CharlesRSO
Jones, DouglasRSO
Jones, VaughanRSO
K
Kahn, FranzRSO
Kármán, Theodore vonRSO
Kelland, PhilipRSO
Kempe, AlfredRSO
Kendall, DavidRSO
Kermack, William OgilvyRSO
Kirchhoff, GustavRSO
Klein, FelixRSO
Knott, CargillRSO
Kolmogorov, AndreyRSO
Kruskal, MartinRSO
L
Lamb, HoraceRSO
Landau, LevRSO
Larmor, JosephRSO
Lebesgue, HenriRSO
Lefschetz, SolomonRSO
Leray, JeanRSO
Levi-Civita, TullioRSO
Lie, SophusRSO
Lifshitz, Evgenii MikhailovichRSO
Lighthill, JamesRSO
Lions, Jacques-LouisRSO
Littlewood, J ERSO
Lorentz, HendrikRSO
M
Macaulay, FrancisRSO
Macdonald, HectorRSO
Mahler, KurtRSO
Maxwell, James ClerkRSO
May, RobertRSO
McCrea, WilliamRSO
McLeod, BryceRSO
Milne, E ARSO
Mittag-Leffler, GöstaRSO
Mordell, LouisRSO
Muir, ThomasRSO
N
Neumann, BernhardRSO
Neumann, FranzRSO
Newcomb, SimonRSO
Newman, MaxRSO
Neyman, JerzyRSO
Northcott, DouglasRSO
O
Georg Simon OhmRSO
Orr, William McFaddenRSO
P
Parry, WilliamRSO
Pauli, WolfgangRSO
Peacock, GeorgeRSO
Pearson, KarlRSO
Pearson, EgonRSO
Peierls, RudolfRSO
Penney, BillRSO
Picard, ÉmileRSO
Plana, GiovanniRSO
Planck, MaxRSO
Plucker, JuliusRSO
Plummer, HenryRSO
Poincaré, HenriRSO
Poinsot, LouisRSO
Polkinghorne, JohnRSO
Poncelet, Jean-VictorRSO
Prandtl, LudwigRSO
Q
Quetelet, AdolpheRSO
R
Ramanujan, SrinivasaRSO
Rankine, WilliamRSO
Strutt, John WilliamRSO
Rees, DavidRSO
Reynolds, OsborneRSO
Richardson, Lewis FryRSO
Richardson, ArchibaldRSO
Riemann, BernhardRSO
Rogers, AmbroseRSO
Rogers, LeonardRSO
Roth, KlausRSO
Routh, EdwardRSO
Russell, BertrandRSO
Russell, John ScottRSO
S
Salmon, GeorgeRSO
Sampson, RalphRSO
Schrödinger, ErwinRSO
Shannon, Claude ERSO
Sneddon, IanRSO
Sommerfeld, ArnoldRSO
Spottiswoode, WilliamRSO
Stewartson, KeithRSO
Stokes, GeorgeRSO
Størmer, CarlRSO
Sturm, Charles-FrançoisRSO
Sylvester, James JosephRSO
Synge, JohnRSO
T
Taylor, GeoffreyRSO
Temple, GeorgeRSO
Thompson, D'ArcyRSO
Thomson, WilliamRSO
Titchmarsh, EdwardRSO
Todd, JohnRSO
Todhunter, IsaacRSO
Turing, AlanRSO
Tutte, WilliamRSO
V
Venn, JohnRSO
Vinogradov, Ivan MatveevichRSO
Volterra, VitoRSO
W
Walker, GeoffreyRSO
Walker, GilbertRSO
Walker, John JamesRSO
Watson, NevilleRSO
Watson, HenryRSO
Wedderburn, JosephRSO
Weil, AndréRSO
Weyl, HermannRSO
Whewell, WilliamRSO
Whitehead, Alfred NorthRSO
Whitehead, HenryRSO
Whittaker, EdmundRSO
Wigner, Eugene PaulRSO
Wilkinson, JimRSO
Wright, Sewall GreenRSO
Y
Yates, FrankRSO
Young, WilliamRSO
Yule, George UdnyRSO
Z
Zeeman, ChrisRSO