| Authorised form of name | Sutton; Sir; Oliver Graham (1903 - 1977) |
| Dates | 1903 - 1977 |
| Date of birth | 04/02/1903 |
| Date of death | 26/05/1977 |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Career:
Professor of Mathematics
Honours:
CBE 1950; Kt 1955
Memberships:
FRMS (President 1953-1955)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1949 |
| Age at election | 46 |
| Source | Obituaries:
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 |
| Code | NA3415 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1949/22 | Sutton, Sir Oliver Graham: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PB/3/2/4/16/1 | Correspondence with Roderick L WIlson and other members of Wilson's research group | January-October 1966 |
| IM/GA/WS/3558 | Sutton, Sir Oliver Graham | nd |
| PB/6/2/4/2 | Folder inscribed 'Royal Society Evidence to Trend Committee' | 1962 |
| RR/44/87 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'A theory of eddy diffusion in the atmosphere' by Oliver Graham Sutton | November 1931 |
| RR/72/60 | Referee's report by Oliver Gtraham Sutton, on a paper 'The permeability of porous materials' by E C Childs and N Collis-George | 1949 |
| RR/54/131 | Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Wind structure and evaporation in a turbulent atmosphere' by Oliver Graham Sutton | May 1934 |
| RR/72/19 | Referee'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 Townsend | 1949 |
| RR/73/90 | Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'The decay of axisymmetric turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 1950 |
| IM/GA/R/6161 | Sutton, Sir Oliver Graham | nd |
| RR/73/15 | Letter 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 Society | 24 January 1950 |