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Authorised form of nameWhitham; Gerald Beresford (1927 - 2014)
Dates1927 - 2014
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthHalifax, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth13/12/1927
Date of death26/01/2014
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1965
Age at election37
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/109597111
CodeNA1635
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1965/31Whitham, Gerald Beresford: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/72/181Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The behaviour of supersonic flow past a body of revolution, far from the axis' by Gerald Beresford Whitham1949
RR/73/18Letter from William George Penney, on a paper 'The propagation of spherical blast' by Gerald Beresford Whitham to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society21 June 1950
RR/73/17Referee's report by William George Penney, on a paper 'The propagation of spherical blast' by Gerald Beresford Whitham22 February 1950
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