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Authorised form of nameDuncan; William Jolly (1894 - 1960)
Dates1894 - 1960
Date of birth26 April 1894
Date of death09/12/1960
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1953
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1947
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1961 vol 7 pp 37-51, plate, by Ernest F Relf
CodeNA750
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1947/09Duncan, William Jolly: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/2629Duncan, William Jolly1946
RR/43/18Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the torsion of cylinders of symmetrical section' by William Jolly DuncanJanuary 1932
RR/71/204Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'Note on stability of laminar viscous flow between parallel planes' by D Meksyn1948
RR/70/179Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations II. Integration of non-linear ordinary differential equations' by D Meksyn1947
RR/71/202Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'Integration of the boundary-layer equations for a plane in a compressible fluid' by D Meksyn1948
RR/70/181Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations, I. Motion of an elliptic and circular cylinders' by D Meksyn1947
RR/70/180Letter from William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations II. Integration of non-linear ordinary differential equations' by D Meksyn to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society23 September 1947
RR/72/117Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The numerical solution of elliptic differential equations when the boundary conditions involve a derivative' by L Fox1949
RR/70/184Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations of bodies of revolution. Motion of a sphere' by D Meksyn5 February 1948
RR/38/25Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On the criteria for the stability of small motions' by Robert Alexander Frazer and William Jolly DuncanMay 1929
RR/38/24Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On the numerical solution of equations with complex roots' by Robert Alexander Frazer and William Jolly DuncanMay 1929
RR/79/292Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The lift and moment acting on a thick aerofoil in unsteady motion' by L C Woods9 January 1954
RR/77/89Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The measurement of skin friction in a turbulent boundary layer at a Mach number of 2.5, including the effect of a shock wave' by W F Cope9 June 1952
RR/77/191Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The numerical solution of non-singular linear integral equations' by L Fox and E T Goodwin20 October 1952
RR/77/192Letter from William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The numerical solution of non-singular linear integral equations' by L Fox and E T Goodwin, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society5 November 1952
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