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Authorised form of namePugsley; Sir; Alfred Grenville (1903 - 1998)
Dates1903 - 1998
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWimbledon, Surrey, England
Date of birth13/05/1903
Date of death07/03/1998
OccupationCivil engineer
ActivityEducation:
Rutlish School, Merton; London University. DSc (1938)
Career:
Student Apprentice in Civil engineering, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich (1923-1926); Technical Officer, Royal Airship Works, Cardington (1926-1931); Member of scientific and technical staff, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough (1931-1945) and Head, Department of Structural and Mechanical Engineering (1941-1945); Visiting Lecturer on Aircraft Structures, Imperial College, London (1938-1940); Professor of Civil Engineering, Bristol University (1945-1968); Chairman, Aeronautical Research Council (1952-1957)
Honours:
OBE 1944; Kt 1956
Memberships:
FEng (1976)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1952
Age at election48
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1959-1961
RelationshipsMarried (1928) Kathleen M Warner (died 1974)
SourceAssocMaterial:
NCUACS 13/6/89. Papers deposited in Bristol University Library
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1999 vol 45 pp 417-435, plate, by Lord Chilver of Cranfield
CodeNA3353
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1952/16Pugsley, Sir Alfred Grenville: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/003691Pugsley, SIr Alfred Grenvilend
PB/1/33/3/6Companion of Honour1965
IM/GA/WS/4351Pugsley, Sir Alfred Grenvilend
IM/003690Pugsley, SIr Alfred GrenvileNovember 1960
IM/003692Pugsley, SIr Alfred Grenvilend
IM/003689Pugsley, SIr Alfred Grenvile1957
RR/66/183Letter from Alfred Grenville Pugsley, RAE, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding two papers 'Supersonic dispersion in gases II. Air containing water vapour' by M Mokhtar and E G Richardson, and 'The air wave surrounding an expanding sphere' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor1 April 1940
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