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Authorised form of nameCherry; Sir; Thomas MacFarland (1898 - 1966)
Dates1898 - 1966
NationalityBritish
Date of birth21 May 1898
Date of death21/11/1966
ActivityHonours:
Kt 1965
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1954
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1968 vol 14 pp 117-138, plate, by K E Bullen and G Temple
References:
N N Greenwood and J A Spink, 'An antipodean laboratory of remarkable distinction' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 85-105
CodeNA1835
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1954/02Cherry, Sir Thomas MacFarland: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/35/37Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems differential equations' by Thomas MacFarland CherryJuly 1927
RR/70/60Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Flow of a compressible fluid about a cylinder' by Thomas Macfarland Cherry 1947
RR/71/70Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Numerical solutions for transonic flow' by Thomas Macfarland Cherry[1948]
RR/70/59Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Flow of a compressible fluid about a cylinder' by Thomas Macfarland Cherry 19 April 1947
RR/71/69Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Flow of a compressible fluid about a cylinder II. Flow with circulation' by Thomas Macfarland Cherry22 May 1948
RR/72/55Referee's report by Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, on a paper 'Asymptotic formulae for hypergeometric functions' by Thomas MacFarlane Cherry 31 May 1950
RR/72/54Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Asymptotic formulae for hypergeometric functions' by Thomas MacFarlane Cherry 1949
RR/72/56Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Asymptotic formulae for hypergeometric functions' by Thomas MacFarlane Cherry 20 March 1950
RR/35/36Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'On periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems differential equations' by Thomas MacFarland Cherry27 July 1927
RR/72/53Letter from Lionel Haworth, on a paper 'Asymptotic formulae for hypergeometric functions' by Thomas MacFarlane Cherry to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society3 April 1950
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