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Authorised form of nameBryan; George Hartley (1864 - 1928); applied mathematician
Dates1864 - 1928
NationalityBritish
Place of birth12 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England
Date of birth01 March 1864
Place of deathBordighera, Italy, Europe
Date of death13 October 1928
Occupationapplied mathematician
Research fieldMathematics
Hydrodynamics
Applied mathematics
Thermodynamics
ActivityEducation: Peterhouse, Cambridge (BA; MA; DSc)
Career: Elected fellow of Peterhouse (1889); appointed professor of pure and applied mathematics at the University College of North Wales, Bangor (1896-1926).
Memberships:
President of the Mathematical Association 1907
Medals/Awards:
Gold medal of the Institution of Naval Architects 1901
Gold medal of the Aeronautical Society 1914
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election13/06/1895
Age at election31
ProposerNorman Macleod Ferrers; James Alfred Ewing; Robert Stawell Ball; Joseph Larmor; Ernest William Hobson; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Henry William Watson; John Henry Poynting
Horace Lamb; Samuel Hawksley Burbury; Robert Bellamy Clifton; Oliver Joseph Lodge; Edward John Routh; George Howard Darwin; George Gabriel Stokes; Arthur Cayley; Joseph John Thomson; William Henry Besant; Andrew Russell Forsyth
RelationshipsParents: Robert Purdie Bryan, fellow-commoner of Clare College, and Fanny, daughter of George Martell, a surgeon.
Spouse: Mabel Williams (1870–1958), headmistress of the Bangor kindergarten school (17 July 1906).
Children: Margaret (1909)
PublishedWorksRCN 21701
OtherInfoKnown for his expertise in thermodynamics and aeronautics.
Credited with developing the modern mathematical treatment of the motion of airplanes in flight as rigid bodies with six degrees of freedom.
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SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 139-142, plate, by Leonard Bairstow
CodeNA1659
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1895/05Bryan, George Hartley: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/000629Bryan, George Hartleynd
NLB/12/104Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[6 December 1895]
NLB/11/628Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons19 August 1895
NLB/19/418Copy letter from A L K, to Messrs Harrison & Sons28 September 1899
NLB/12/106Copy letter from Theodore E James, to George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society7 December 1895
RR/15/335Referee's report by George Hartley Bryan, on a paper 'On an approximate solution for the bending of a beam of rectangular cross-section under any system of load, with special reference to points of concentrated or discontinuous loading' by Louis Napoleon George FilonAugust 1902
NLB/21/133Copy letter from Theodore E James, to George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society14 August 1900
NLB/19/453Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society, Plas Gwyn, Bangor, North Wales6 October 1899
NLB/20/265Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society, Plas Gwyn, Bangor, North Wales9 March 1900
NLB/20/448Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr George Johnstone Stoney, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1900
NLB/21/562Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Plas Gwyn, Bangor[10 December 1900]
NLB/21/500Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society28 November 1900
NLB/21/723Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society18 January 1901
NLB/24/298Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society[April 1902]
NLB/25/225Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society, Plas Gwyn, Bangor, North Wales25 September 1902
NLB/27/235Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society18 July 1903
NLB/33/719Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society26 October 1906
NLB/33/742Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society29 October 1906
NLB/39/149Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons2 December 1908
NLB/34/396Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society14 January 1907
NLB/44/324Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor George Hartley Bryan FRS19 June 1911
NLB/50/157Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society9 May 1914
NLB/50/100Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society1 May 1914
NLB/50/225Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1914
NLB/50/138Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society6 May 1914
NLB/53/345Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, FRS18 July 1916
NLB/50/825Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1914
NLB/51/15Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor George Hartley Bryan FRS20 November 1914
IM/000630Bryan, George Hartley1922
NLB/54/369Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS25 April 1917
AP/79/15Unpublished paper, 'Convex contact and rolling resistance' by Herbert Chatley1917
RR/10/247Referee's report by Norman Macleod Ferrers, on a paper 'The waves on a rotating liquid spheroid of finite ellipticity' by George Hartley Bryan30 December 1888
NLB/59/640Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, FRS27 October 1920
RR/12/285Referee's report by George Hartley Bryan, on a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury24 June 1895
RR/15/317Referee's report by George Hartley Bryan, on a paper 'The stability of the pear-shaped figure of equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid' by George Howard DarwinAugust 1902
RR/12/287Letter from George Hartley Bryan, to William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, regarding a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury18 July 1895
RR/17/191Referee's report by George Hartley Bryan, on a paper 'The gravitational stability of the Earth' by Augustus Edward Hough Love[February 1907]
NLB/60/139Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, FRS14 December 1920
RR/15/24Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The kinetic theory of planetary atmospheres. Part I' by George Hartley BryanJune 1900
RR/15/26Referee's report by George Hartley Bryan, on a paper 'Elastic solids at rest or in motion in a liquid' by Charles ChreeFebruary 1901
NLB/62/772Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, FRS4 May 1922
NLB/62/620Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, FRS24 March 1922
NLB/62/685Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, FRS6 April 1922
NLB/62/716Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, FRS11 April 1922
RR/12/286Two letters from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Hartley Bryan, regarding a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury6 July 1895
NLB/65/573Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Kennedy Joseph Previte] Orton; Chemical Department, University College of North Wales, Bangor22 November 1923
NLB/67/232Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Hartley] Bryan, FRS15 November 1924
NLB/72/433Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Leonard] Bairstow, CBE, FRS21 October 1929
NLB/73/56Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Leonard] Bairstow, C.B.E., FRS7 November 1930
NLB/21/47Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society20 July 1900
NLB/21/292Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Hartley Bryan, Fellow of the Royal Society[22 October 1900]
RR/21/44Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Discontinuous fluid motion past a bent plane, with special reference to aeroplane problems' by George Hartley Bryan and Robert Jones[January 1915]
RR/10/246Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The waves on a rotating liquid spheroid of finite ellipticity' by George Hartley Bryan5 November 1888
RR/21/45Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'Discontinuous fluid motion past a bent plane, with special reference to aeroplane problems' by George Hartley Bryan and Robert Jones9 December 1914
RR/15/22Referee's report by George Johnstone Stoney, on a paper 'The kinetic theory of planetary atmospheres. Part I' by George Hartley BryanMay 1900
RR/15/274Referee's report by George Hartley Bryan, on a paper 'The application of the kinetic theory of gases to to electric, magnetic & optical properties of diatomic gases' by George Walker WalkerMarch 1901
RR/16/26Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'The longitudinal stability of aerial gliders' by George Hartley Bryan and W E WilliamsJuly 1903
RR/15/23Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The kinetic theory of planetary atmospheres. Part I' by George Hartley Bryan20 May 1900
RR/16/27Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'The longitudinal stability of aerial gliders' by George Hartley Bryan and W E Williams10 July 1903
PP/15/26Paper, 'On the stability of a rotating spheroid of perfect liquid' by G H [George Hartley] Bryan1890
RR/15/408Referee's report by George Hartley Bryan, on a paper 'The distribution of magnetism as affected by induced currents in an iron cylinder when rotated in a magnetic field' by Ernest Wilson15 January 1902
MS/603/1/176Letter from G H [George Hartley] Bryan, Plas Gwyn, Bangor, to [Joseph] Larmor14 March 1904
MS/603/1/175Letter from G H [George Hartley] Bryan, University College of North Wales, Bangor, to 'Dear Sirs', the Royal Society9 March 1904
MS/603/1/178Letter from G H [George Hartley] Bryan, Plas Gwyn, Bangor, to [Joseph] Larmor]18 June 1919
MS/603/1/174Letter from G H [George Hartley] Bryan, Thornlea, Trumpington Road, Cambridge, to [Joseph] Larmor18 January 1891
MS/603/1/177Letter from G H [George Hartley] Bryan, Plas Gwyn, Bangor, N. Wales, to Sir George Darwin28 January 1908
NLB/44/720Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor G [George] H [Hartley] Bryan FRS27 October 1911
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