C. V. Boys
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British physicist (1855-1944)
OverviewAI-generated
C. V. Boys was a male individual born on 15 March 1855 and who died on 30 March 1944. He held British and Portuguese nationalities and spoke English.
He is recognized in the Royal Society collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 9 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, VIAF, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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C. V. Boys appears in Vinony's Fellows of the Royal Society collection — one of 9,360 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 46 inbound references to C. V. Boys, and connects out to physics, astronomy and force.
It is catalogued under topics including 1855 births, 1944 deaths and British fellows of the Royal Society.
Vinony links it to 18 Wikipedia language editions.
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1855–1944
- Nationality
- GB, PT
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 21 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Wing
- Place of death
- St Mary Bourne
- Occupation
- physicist
- Position held
- chairperson
- Educated at
- Royal School of Mines
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Integraph
- Noble title
- Knight Bachelor
- Student of
- Frederick Guthrie
- Image
- Portrait of Charles Vernon Boys, 1915, by John Collier.jpg
- Residence
- England
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- member of
- Royal Society
- date of birth
- 1855-03-15
- date of death
- 1944-03-30
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- birth name
- Charles Vernon Boys
- Commons category
- C. V. Boys
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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