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Authorised form of nameRosenhead; Louis (1906 - 1984)
Dates1906 - 1984
Date of birth01/01/1906
Date of death10/11/1984
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1954
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/03/1946
Age at election40
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1986 vol 32 pp 405-420, plate, by J T Stuart
CodeNA1974
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/WS/2293Rosenhead, Louisnd
MDA/A/12/184Letter from Louis Rosenhead to David Christie Martin, University of Liverpool, Department of Applied Mathematics18 September 1947
MDA/A/12/182Letter from Louis Rosenhead to David Christie Martin, University of Liverpool, Department of Applied Mathematics 9 September 1947
MDA/A/12/183Copy letter from David Christie Martin to Louis Rosenhead, The Royal Society12 September 1947
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/42/30Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The formation of vortices from a surface of discontinuity' by Louis RosenheadAugust 1931
RR/38/129Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'System of line vortices in a channel of finite breadth' by Louis RosenheadNovember 1928
RR/42/29Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The lift on a flat plate between parallel walls' by Louis RosenheadMarch 1931
RR/42/31Referee's report by Thomas Henry Havelock, on a paper 'The spread of vorticity in the wake behind a cylinder' by Louis RosenheadMarch 1930
RR/42/34Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the flow behind circular cylinders in channels of different breadths' by Louis Rosenhead and M SchwabeJune 1930
RR/38/130Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'System of line vortices in a channel of finite breadth' by Louis RosenheadJanuary 1929
RR/72/148Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'The forces on a submerged spheroid moving in a circular path' by Thomas Henry Havelock14 January 1950
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/36/60Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'Resistance to a barrier in the shape of an arc of a circle' by Louis Rosenhead and S Brodetsky[October 1927]
RR/50/127Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Interference due to walls of a wind-tunnel' by Louis RosenheadJuly 1933
RR/72/159Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'Steady flow in the laminar boundary layer of a gas' by C R Illingworth9 July 1949
RR/70/71Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'The laminar boundary layer in compressible flow' by W F Cope and Douglas Rayner Hartree7 July 1947
RR/72/196Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'Focusing effects in two-dimensional, supersonic flow' by R E Mayer11 June 1949
RR/66/263Referee's report by David Leonard Chapman, on a paper 'Distribution of charge and potential in an electrolyte bounded by two plane infinite parallel plates' by A J Corkill and Louis Rosenhead[May 1939]
RR/66/65Letter from Reginald Edward Stradling, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'Some cases of the steady two-dimensional percolation of water through ground' by B Davison and Louis Rosenhead26 February 1940
RR/70/204Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'Large elastic deformations of isotropic materials VI. Further results in the theory of torsion, shear and flexure' by R S Rivlin23 February 1948
RR/72/87Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'Unsteady compressible flow in two dimensions' by T V Davies18 June 1949
RR/72/189Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'Cellular atmospheric waves in the ionosphere and troposphere' by D F Martyn26 October 1949
RR/72/59Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'The propagation of a sound pulse in the presence of a semi-infinite open-ended channel' by W Chester24 October 1949
RR/70/208Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'The hydrodynamics of non-Newtonian fluids. I' by R S Rivlin 6 December 1947
RR/71/171Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'Hot-wire investigation of the wake behind cylinders at low Reynolds numbers' by L S G Kovásznay31 December 1948
EC/1946/18Rosenhead, Louis: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/66/261Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The steady two-dimensional radial flow of viscous fluid between two inclined plane walls' by Louis Rosenhead26 April 1940
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/66/262Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The steady two-dimensional radial flow of viscous fluid between two inclined plane walls' by Louis Rosenhead[April 1940]
PB/1/33/2Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society1956
RR/66/63Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Some cases of the steady two-dimensional percolation of water through ground' by B Davison and Louis Rosenhead[January 1940]
RR/66/64Letter from John David Griffith Davies, to Reginald Edward Stradling, regarding a paper 'Some cases of the steady two-dimensional percolation of water through ground' by B Davison and Louis Rosenhead7 February 1940
RR/42/32Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The spread of vorticity in the wake behind a cylinder' by Louis RosenheadFebruary 1930
RR/46/84Referee's report by Thomas Henry Havelock, on a paper 'On vortex motion inside and outside an elliptic cylinder' by Louis Rosenhead and D E Littlewood[July 1932]
RR/66/62Referee's report by C E Ingles [?], on a paper 'Some cases of the steady two-dimensional percolation of water through ground' by B Davison and Louis Rosenhead29 December 1939
RR/70/207Letter from Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'The hydrodynamics of non-Newtonian fluids. I' by R S Rivlin to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society23 December 1947
RR/73/101Referee's report by Louis Rosenhead, on a paper 'Stability of viscous flow over concave cylindrical surfaces' by D Meksyn4 May 1950
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