Record

Authorised form of nameProudman; Joseph (1888 - 1975)
Dates1888 - 1975
Date of birth30 December 1888
Date of death26/06/1975
ActivityEducation:
MA; DSc
Career:
Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Liverpool; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
Honours:
CBE 1952
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1925
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1957
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1976 vol 22 pp 319-333, plate, by D E Cartwright and F Ursell
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/263762385
Royal Society codeNA1896
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1925/11Proudman, Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/003785Proudman, Josephnd
RR/23/75Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'Numerical results of the theory of the diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting sphere' by Joseph Proudman, Arthur Thomas Doodson and G KennedyMay 1916
RR/26/118Referee's report by F P Pidduck, on a paper 'The principles of internal Ballistics' by Joseph Proudman21 June 1921
RR/71/244Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On the mixing of sea water by turbulence' by Joseph Proudman31 May 1948
RR/37/16Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'Two-dimensional potential problems concerning a single closed boundary' by W G BickleyFebruary 1929
RR/33/103Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'Fluid resistance to moving spheres' by R G LunnonNovember 1925
RR/67/230Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The pressure of water waves upon a fixed obstacle' by Thomas Henry Havelock18 April 1940
RR/23/79Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'On the motion of solids in a liquid possessing vorticity' by Joseph ProudmanApril 1916
RR/35/42Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'A theory of internal ballistics based on a pressure-index law burning for propellants' by C A Clemmow16 January 1928
RR/45/31Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The diurnal tide in an ocean bounded by two meridians' by D C Colbornend [January 1931]
NLB/61/734Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Joseph] Proudman, FRS; the University of Liverpool20 October 1921
RR/49/136Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'Ocean currents produced by evaporation and precipitation' by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough[June 1933]
RR/53/107Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The calculation of wave resistance' by Thomas Henry Havelock[February 1934]
RR/72/40Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Observations on the turbulent fluctuations of a tidal current' by K F Bowden and Joseph Proudman1949
RR/58/6Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'Wave resistance: the mutual action of two bodies' by Thomas Henry HavelockMay 1936
RR/60/48Referee's report by George Clarke Simpson, on a paper 'On the temperature of the surface waters of the Irish sea' by Joseph Proudman, H Mabel Lewis and A Leslie Dennis4 December 1936
RR/64/29Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The seiches in a strait connecting two seas' by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough[August 1937]
RR/70/19Letter from Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The generation and propagation of ocean waves and swell. I. Wave periods and velocities' by N F Barber and F Ursell5 July 1947
RR/68/200Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'Relaxation methods applied to engineering problems. VII. Problems relating to the percolation of fluids through porous materials' by F S Shaw and Richard Vynne Southwell23 January 1941
RR/67/342Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On the turbulence of a tidal current' by Joseph Proudman1940
RR/71/22Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The behaviour of waves on tidal streams' by N F Barber19 November 1948
RR/67/358Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to the author11 October 1945
RR/67/361Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to the author15 November 1945
RR/67/343Letter from Joseph Proudman, on his paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society1 November 1940
RR/67/362Letter from Joseph Proudman, on his paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society19 November 1945
RR/67/352Letter from unknown communicator, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to Cambridge University Press24 December 1940
RR/67/363Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman 30 November 1945
RR/69/94Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On Dirac’s theory of quantum electrodynamics: the interaction of an electron and a radiation field' by C Jayaratnam Eliezer to Joseph Proudman3 July 1945
RR/69/62Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Infinite irreducible representations of the Lorentz group' by Harish-Chandra to Joseph Proudman27 August 1946
RR/72/73Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The levels in the North Sea associated with the storm disturbance of 8 January 1949' by R H Corkan27 September 1949
RR/70/18Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The generation and propagation of ocean waves and swell. I. Wave periods and velocities' by N F Barber and F Ursell3 June 1947
RR/72/132Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The tides in oceans on a rotating globe. V' by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough1949
RR/72/131Letter from Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The tides in oceans on a rotating globe. V' by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough to D C Martin, Assisatn Secretary of the Royal Society30 June 1949
RR/34/19Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'Generalised sturm-liouville expansions in series of pairs of related functions' by H Horrocks[January 1927]
RR/31/39Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The principal constituent of the tides of the North Sea' by Joseph Proudman and Arthur Thomas Doodson[February 1924]
NLB/72/59Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Joseph] Proudman, FRS8 February 1929
NLB/68/774Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, FRS31 October 1925
NLB/68/772Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Joseph] Proudman, FRS31 October 1925
NLB/69/722Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. Yamasaki, Imperial University, Tokyo13 September 1926
NLB/69/712Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Joseph] Proudman, FRS6 September 1926
NLB/69/721Copy Letter from P. D. Rogers, Office Staff of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Henry Hallett] Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society9 September 1926
NLB/72/54Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Joseph] Proudman, FRS6 February 1929
NLB/66/35Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Sydney] Chapman, FRS12 February 1924
IM/005264Proudman, Joseph and Dodson, Arthur Thomas1995
NLB/62/503Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Colonel [Henry George] Lyons, Chairman of the Gassiot Committee and FRS23 February 1922
RR/67/350Letter from the Hydrographer to the Navy, the Admiralty, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to the Secretary of the Royal Society14 December 1940
RR/67/345Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham14 November 1940
RR/67/355Letter from J N Carruthers, Hydrographic Department, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society24 March 1941
RR/67/359Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to the author7 November 1945
RR/67/347Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to the author15 November 1940
NLB/67/710Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to unknown correspondent19 February 1925
AP/81/3/3Unpublished letter, regarding 'The measurement of tides by means of the Favé pressure gauge' from Joseph Proudman to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society12 December 1939
RR/31/40Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The principal constituent of the tides of the North Sea' by Joseph Proudman and Arthur Thomas Doodson28 January 1924
RR/53/136Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The figure of the earth from gravity observations and the precision obtainable' by James de Graaff-Hunter[January 1935]
RR/67/356Order form from Joseph Proudman, on his paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal SocietyMarch 1941
RR/67/360Letter from Joseph Proudman, on his paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society13 November 1945
RR/67/354Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to J N Carruthers, Hydrographic Department20 March 1941
AP/81/3/2Unpublished diagrams, experimental apparatus and results by J [Joseph] Proudman, A T [Arthur Thomas] Doodson and R H Corkan1939
AP/81/3/1Unpublished manuscript, 'The measurement of tides by means of the Favé pressure gauge' by J [Joseph] Proudman, A T [Arthur Thomas] Doodson and R H Corkan1939
AP/81/3Unpublished paper, 'The measurement of tides by means of the Favé pressure gauge' by J [Joseph] Proudman, A T [Arthur Thomas] Doodson and R H Corkan1939
RR/68/119Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'On Laplace’s differential equations for the tides' by Joseph Proudman[June 1941]
RR/23/76Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'Numerical results of the theory of the diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting sphere' by Joseph Proudman, Arthur Thomas Doodson and G Kennedy25 May 1916
RR/23/77Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Numerical results of the theory of the diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting sphere' by Joseph Proudman, Arthur Thomas Doodson and G KennedyJuly 1916
RR/49/135Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The tides in oceans on a rotating globe.—Part IV' by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough[February 1933]
RR/56/78Referee's report by James de Graaff-Hunter, on a paper 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians' by Joseph Proudman and Arthur Thomas Doodson19 October 1935
RR/56/79Referee's report by George Ridsdale Goldsbrough, on a paper 'Tides in oceans bounded by meridians' by Joseph Proudman and Arthur Thomas Doodson[November 1935]
RR/60/47Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'On the temperature of the surface waters of the Irish sea' by Joseph Proudman, H Mabel Lewis and A Leslie Dennis16 December 1936
RR/67/344Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to William Lawrence Bragg6 November 1940
RR/67/346Letter from Joseph Proudman, on his paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society14 November 1940
RR/67/348Referee's report by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman 27 November 1940
RR/67/349Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to the Hydrographer to the Navy, the Admiralty5 December 1940
RR/67/351Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to the Hydrographer to the Navy, the Admiralty18 December 1940
RR/67/353Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to members of the Sectional Committee for Physics27 December 1940
RR/67/357Letter from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the salinity of the surface waters of the Irish Sea' by Joseph Proudman to the author19 June 1941
RR/67/422Letter and referee's report by Joseph Proudman on a paper 'The production of waves by the sudden release of a spherical distribution of compressed air in the atmosphere' by J J Unwin6 September 1940
RR/79/172Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'The North Sea storm surge of 31 January and 1 February 1953' by J R Rossiter31 July 1953
RR/73/252Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'A study of motions in a rotating liquid' by G W Morgan20 October 1950
RR/77/51Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'Edge waves on a sloping beach' by F Ursell6 March 1952
RR/77/165Referee's report by Joseph Proudman, on a paper 'Free tidal oscillations in a rotating square sea' by R H Corkan and Arthur Thomas Doodson28 August 1952
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