Record

Authorised form of nameBairstow; Sir; Leonard (1880 - 1963)
Dates1880 - 1963
Date of birth25 June 1880
Date of death08/09/1963
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1917; Kt 1952
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/05/1917
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1965 vol 11 pp 23-40, plate, by G Temple, with notes by A Fage, J L Nayler and E F Relf
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/55369102
CodeNA1812
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/Russell/3923Bairstow, Sir Leonardnd
PB/4/13/6Correspondence and papers re Aircraft Research Committee. January-May 1950
RR/16/255Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'Explosions of mixtures of coal-gas and air in a close vessel' by Leonard Bairstow and A D AlexanderMarch 1905
NLB/31/592Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Leonard Bairstow, [Fellow of the Royal Society]16 October 1905
RR/17/367Referee's report by William Cawthorne Unwin, on a paper 'The elastic limits of iron and steel under cyclical variations of stress' by Leonard Bairstow8 May 1909
RR/26/44Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The aerodynamics of a spinning shell.—Part II' by Ralph Howard Fowler and C N H Lock7 October 1921
RR/17/370Letter from Richard Tetley Glazebrook, on a paper 'The elastic limits of iron and steel under cyclical variations of stress' by Leonard Bairstow4 June 1909
RR/42/33Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The effect of wind tunnel interference on the characteristics of an aerofoil' by Louis RosenheadJuly 1930
RR/27/5Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The resistance of a cylinder moving in a viscous fluid' by Leonard Bairstow, B M Cave and E D LangDecember 1922
RR/51/115Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The flow past circular cylinders at low speeds' by A Thom[June 1933]
RR/59/66Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the static pressure in fully-developed turbulent flow' by Arthur Fage[March 1936]
RR/17/373Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The elastic limits of iron and steel under cyclical variations of stress' by Leonard Bairstow15 June 1909
RR/38/82Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Flow through pipe orifices at low Reynolds numbers' by F C JohansenOctober 1929
RR/65/125Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Thermal effects on bodies in an air stream' by W F HiltonJuly 1938
RR/17/372Letter from Richard Tetley Glazebrook, on a paper 'The elastic limits of iron and steel under cyclical variations of stress' by Leonard Bairstow8 June 1909
RR/43/56Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Ship waves: the calculation of wave profiles' by Thomas Henry HavelockOctober 1931
NLB/61/742Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Leonard] Bairstow, FRS20 October 1921
RR/40/95Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the problem of hydrodynamic stability. I. uniform shearing motion in a viscous fluid' by Richard Vynne Southwell and Letitia ChittyJuly 1929
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/40/96Second referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the problem of hydrodynamic stability. I. uniform shearing motion in a viscous fluid' by Richard Vynne Southwell and Letitia ChittyDecember 1929
RR/69/264Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Large elastic deformations of isotropic materials. Parts I, II, and III' by R S Rivlin1945
RR/17/369Letter from Richard Tetley Glazebrook, on a paper 'The elastic limits of iron and steel under cyclical variations of stress' by Leonard Bairstow1 June 1909
RR/41/135Second referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The wake in three dimensional fluid flow' by Harold JeffreysMay 1930
RR/63/27Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The two-dimensional hydrodynamical theory of moving aerofoils—I' by Rosa M MorrisMay 1937
NLB/30/584Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Leonard Bairstow, [Fellow of the Royal Society] and A D AlexanderApril 1905
RR/45/73Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The theory of wave resistance' by Thomas Henry Havelock[August 1932]
RR/46/83Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The aerofoil in a wind tunnel of elliptic section' by Louis Rosenhead[December 1932]
RR/47/121Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The air pressure on a cone moving at high speeds.—I' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and J W MaccollNovember 1932
RR/49/137Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the two-dimensional steady flow of a viscous fluid behind a solid body. I' by Sydney Goldstein[July 1933]
RR/49/138Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the two-dimensional steady flow of a viscous fluid behind a solid body. II' by Sydney Goldstein[July 1933]
RR/48/73Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Photographs of fluid flow revealed with an ultramicroscope' by Arthur Fage[January 1934]
RR/17/368Referee's report by Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock, on a paper 'The elastic limits of iron and steel under cyclical variations of stress' by Leonard Bairstow21 May 1909
RR/53/153Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the acoustic radiation pressure on spheres' by Louis Vessot King[August 1934]
RR/26/6Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The two-dimensional slow motion of viscous fluids' by Leonard Bairstow, B M Cave and E D Lang[September 1921]
RR/50/79Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Stress calculation for tubular frameworks having continuous longitudinals' by J B B OwenJanuary 1934
RR/70/205Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Large elastic deformations of isotropic materials VI. Further results in the theory of torsion, shear and flexure' by R S Rivlin1947
RR/56/128Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On stress calculations in frameworks by the method of systematic relaxation of constraint IV' by Richard Vynne Southwell[September 1935]
RR/51/95Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The stability of quadratic velocity-distributions for an inviscid liquid flowing between parallel planes' by John Lighton Synge18 November 1933
RR/54/13Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the acoustic radiation pressure on circular discs: Inertia and diffraction corrections' by Louis Vessot KingSeptember 1935
NLB/62/139Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Leonard] Bairstow, FRS9 December 1921
RR/63/28Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The two-dimensional hydrodynamical theory of moving aerofoils—II' by Rosa M MorrisNovember 1937
RR/69/108Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Bi-variate partial fractions and their applications to flutter and stability problems' by Robert Alexander Frazer1945
RR/64/51Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The forces on a cylinder or flat plate submerged in a uniform stream' by Thomas Henry Havelock[March 1938]
RR/69/268Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Large elastic deformations of isotropic materials. Parts IV and V' by R S Rivlin1946
RR/56/116Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Stress-calculation in frameworks by the method of "systematic relaxation of constraints". I and II' by Richard Vynne Southwell[May 1935]
NLB/62/161Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Air Conference Committee, Air Ministry, Kingsway, W.C.2.13 December 1921
RR/59/99Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'A note on the measurement of total head and static pressure in a turbulent stream' by Sydney Goldstein[March 1936]
RR/57/21Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Distribution of velocity and temperature between concentric rotating cylinders' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor[June 1935]
RR/57/29Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the instability of a cylindrical thread of a viscous liquid surrounded by another viscous fluid' by S Tomotika[March 1935]
RR/59/87Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The forces on a solid body in a stream of viscous fluid' by T E Garstang[May 1936]
RR/69/231Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Fluid motion between parallel planes. Dynamical stability' by D Meksyn1945
NLB/64/52Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Air Conference Committee; Air Ministry, Kingsway23 January 1923
RR/64/5Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The influence of wall oscillations, wall rotation, and entry eddies, on the breakdown of laminar flow in an annular pipe' by Arthur Fage[February 1938]
NLB/64/10Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Leonard] Bairstow Esquire, FRS19 January 1923
RR/67/150Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On transition from laminar to turbulent flow in the boundary layer' by Arthur Fage and J H Preston1940
RR/68/227Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Stress systems in isotropic and aeolotropic plates. V' by Albert Edward Green[1942]
RR/41/104Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The forces on a solid body moving through viscous fluid' by Sydney GoldsteinJanuary 1931
RR/52/87Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Finite strain in elastic problems' by B R SethSeptember 1934
RR/39/26Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The effect of rotation upon the lift and moment of a Joukowski aerofoil' by W G Bickley[January 1930]
NLB/71/76Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Leonard] Bairstow, C.B.E., FRS20 December 1927
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/73/16Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Leonard] Bairstow, C.B.E., FRS14 October 1930
NLB/72/953Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Leonard] Bairstow, CBE, FRS17 July 1930
RR/16/254Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Explosions of mixtures of coal-gas and air in a closed vessel' by Leonard Bairstow and A D Alexander5 March 1905
RR/16/253Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Explosions of mixtures of coal-gas and air in a closed vessel' by Leonard Bairstow and A D AlexanderFebruary 1905
RR/17/371Referee's report by Thomas Edward Stanton, on a paper 'The elastic limits of iron and steel under cyclical variations of stress' by Leonard Bairstow21 June 1909
RR/62/47Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Mechanism of the production of small eddies from large ones' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Albert Edward Green[November 1936]
RR/51/80Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the stability for three-dimensional disturbances of viscous fluid flow between parallel walls' by Herbert Brian Squire[August 1933]
RR/56/31Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the calculation of the velocity and temperature distributions for flow along a flat plate' by Leslie Howarth[December 1935]
RR/67/102Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Wind tunnel correction for a circular open jet tunnel with a reflexion plate' by B Davison and Louis RosenheadMay 1940
RR/56/29Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The theoretical determination of the lift coefficient for a thin elliptic cylinder' by Leslie Howarth[March 1935]
EC/1917/02Bairstow, Sir Leonard: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/28/59Referee's report by Thomas Henry Havelock, on a paper 'The resistance of a cylinder moving in a viscous fluid' by Leonard Bairstow, B M Cave and E D Lang[May 1923]
RR/27/6Referee's report by Thomas Henry Havelock, on a paper 'The resistance of a cylinder moving in a viscous fluid' by Leonard Bairstow, B M Cave and E D LangDecember 1922
RR/44/91Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Note on the distribution of turbulent velocities in a fluid near a solid wall' by Geoffrey Ingram TaylorJanuary 1932
RR/51/130Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'A comparison of experiment and calculated wave-profiles and wave-resistances for a form having parabolic waterlines' by W C S Wigley[November 1933]
RR/49/156Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The plastico-viscous deformation of right circular cylinders of soft metal under variable load axially directed' by W E Grimshaw[January 1934]
RR/51/97Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the disturbance of the steady flow of an inviscid liquid between parallel planes' by John Lighton Synge[January 1934]
AP/76/5Unpublished paper, 'Explosions of mixtures of coal-gas and air in a closed vessel' by Leonard Bairstow and A D Alexander1905
RR/41/134Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The wake in three dimensional fluid flow' by Harold JeffreysMarch 1930
RR/43/24Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'An examination of turbulent flow with an ultramicroscope' by Arthur Fage and H C H TownendJanuary 1932
RR/47/106Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'A modification of Oseen’s approximate equation for the motion in two dimensions of a viscous incompressible fluid' by Richard Vynne Southwell and Herbert Brian Squire7 November 1932
RR/63/97Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the torsion of conical shells' by Richard Vynne SouthwellJuly 1937
RR/68/161Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Relaxation methods applied to engineering problems VIIA - Biharmonic analysis as applied to the flexure and extension of flat elastic plates' by L Fox and Richard Vynne Southwell5 May 1941
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