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Authorised form of nameGriffith; Alan Arnold (1893 - 1963)
Dates1893 - 1963
Place of birthLondon
Date of birth13 June 1893
Date of death11/10/1963
OccupationEngineer
Research fieldAeronautical engineering
Fracture mechanics
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1948
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1941
SourceAuthority:
Birthplace from The Times 13 June 2001
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1964 vol 10 pp 117-136, plate, by A A Rubbra
References:
Sir William Hawthorne, 'The Early History of the Aircraft Gas Turbine in Britain' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 79-108, plate
CodeNA1700
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1941/09Griffith, Alan Arnold: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/58/120Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Geoffrey Ingram] Taylor Esquire, FRS16 March 1920
IM/001794Griffith, Alan Arnoldnd
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