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Authorised form of nameSutton; Sir; Oliver Graham (1903 - 1977)
Dates1903 - 1977
Date of birth04/02/1903
Date of death26/05/1977
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityCareer:
Professor of Mathematics
Honours:
CBE 1950; Kt 1955
Memberships:
FRMS (President 1953-1955)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1949
Age at election46
SourcesObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1978 vol 24 pp 529-546, plate, by F Pasquill, P A Sheppard and R C Sutcliffe
Royal Society codeNA3415
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1949/22Sutton, Sir Oliver Graham: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PB/3/2/4/16/1Correspondence with Roderick L WIlson and other members of Wilson's research groupJanuary-October 1966
IM/GA/WS/3558Sutton, Sir Oliver Grahamnd
PB/6/2/4/2Folder inscribed 'Royal Society Evidence to Trend Committee'1962
RR/44/87Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'A theory of eddy diffusion in the atmosphere' by Oliver Graham SuttonNovember 1931
RR/72/60Referee's report by Oliver Gtraham Sutton, on a paper 'The permeability of porous materials' by E C Childs and N Collis-George1949
RR/54/131Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Wind structure and evaporation in a turbulent atmosphere' by Oliver Graham SuttonMay 1934
RR/72/19Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'The nature of turbulent motion at large wave-numbers' by George Keith Batchelor and Albert Alan Townsend1949
RR/73/90Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'The decay of axisymmetric turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar1950
IM/GA/R/6161Sutton, Sir Oliver Grahamnd
RR/73/15Letter from Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'A note on three dimensional turbulence and evaporation in the lower atmosphere' by D R Davies, to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society24 January 1950
RR/77/262Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'The forced flow of a rotating viscous liquid which is heated from below' by T V Davies29 January 1953
RR/75/144Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'Water movements in lakes during summer stratification; evidence from the distribution of temperature in Windermere' by Clifford Hiley Mortimer3 August 1951
RR/75/331Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'The effect of homogenous turbulence on material lines and surfaces' by George Keith Batchelor26 February 1952
RR/77/56Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'The generation of noise by isotropic turbulence' by I Proudman21 April 1952
RR/77/8Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'Transforms for the eddy-diffusion of clusters' by Lewis Fry Richardson27 February 1952
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