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Authorised form of nameSheppard; Percival Albert (1907 - 1977)
Dates1907 - 1977
Date of birth12/05/1907
Date of death22/12/1977
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1963
Memberships:
FRMS (President 1957-1959)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/03/1964
Age at election56
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1979 vol 25 pp 535-553, plate, by R C Sutcliffe and F Pasquill
CodeNA3528
Archives associated with this Fellow
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RR/69/290Report by Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'The aerodynamic drag of the earth’s surface and the value of von Karman’s constant in the lower atmosphere' by Percival Albert Sheppard May 1946
RR/69/289Report by Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'The aerodynamic drag of the earth’s surface and the value of von Karman’s constant in the lower atmosphere' by Percival Albert Sheppard 23 March 1946
EC/1964/23Sheppard, Percival Albert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/69/287Letter from Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'The aerodynamic drag of the earth’s surface and the value of von Karman’s constant in the lower atmosphere' by Percival Albert Sheppard to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton22 February 1946
RR/69/288Referee's report by Lewis Fry Richardson, on a paper 'The aerodynamic drag of the earth’s surface and the value of von Karman’s constant in the lower atmosphere' by Percival Albert Sheppard 21 March 1946
RR/73/43Referee's report by Percival Albert Sheppard, on a paper 'Contributions to the theory of heat transfer through a laminar boundary layer' by Michael James Lighthill1950
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