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Authorised form of nameStrang; William John (1921 - 1999)
Dates1921 - 1999
NationalityBritish
Date of birth29/06/1921
Date of death14/09/1999
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1973
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1977
Age at election55
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2001 vol 47 pp 443-451, plate, by Sir Frederick Page FRS
CodeNA2400
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EC/1977/35Strang, William John: certificate of election to the Royal Society1972
RR/71/266Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'A physical theory of supersonic aerofoils in unsteady flow' by William John Strang1948
RR/71/265Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'A physical theory of supersonic aerofoils in unsteady flow' by William John Strang1948
RR/72/243Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Transient source, doublet and vortex solutions of the linearized equations of supersonic flow' by William John Strang 1949
RR/72/244Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Transient lift of three-dimensional purely supersonic wings' by William John Strang1949
RR/72/242Letter from Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Transient source, doublet and vortex solutions of the linearized equations of supersonic flow' by William John Strang to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society17 January 1950
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