William de Wiveleslie Abney - Organizations and Honors

Organizations and Honors

  • Royal Society (fellow)
    • 1876 and
  • Received first Progress Medal of the Photographic Society of Great Britain ever
    • 1878
  • Photographic Society of Great Britain aka Royal Photographic Society (president)
    • 1892 to 1894
    • 1896
    • 1903 to 1905
  • Royal Astronomical Society (president)
    • 1893 to 1895.
  • Physical Society of London (president)
    • 1895 to 1897
  • Knighted
    • 1900
  • Girls' Public Day School Trust (vice-President)
    • 1909 to 1920

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