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Authorised form of nameTownsend; Albert Alan (1917 - 2010)
Dates1917 - 2010
NationalityBritish
Date of birth22/01/1917
Date of death31/08/2010
ActivityEducation:
Career:
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election24/03/1960
Age at election43
SourceReferences:
N N Greenwood and J A Spink, 'An antipodean laboratory of remarkable distinction' in NR 2002 vol 57 pp 85-105
CodeNA4076
Archives associated with this Fellow
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RR/70/21Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'Decay of isotropic turbulence in the initial period' by George Keith Batchelor and Albert Alan Townsend1947
RR/67/419Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'ß-ray spectra of light elements' by Albert Alan TownsendJune 1940
RR/69/311Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Measurements in the turbulent wake of a cylinder' by Albert Alan Townsend1946
RR/71/24Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Decay of turbulence in the final period' by George Keith Batchelor and Albert Alan Townsend[1948]
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
EC/1960/23Townsend, Albert Alan: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/004634Townsend, Albert Alannd
RR/65/176Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'The ß-ray spectrum of Ra E' by Leslie Harold Martin and Albert Alan Townsend2 September 1938
RR/65/175Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'The ß-ray spectrum of Ra E' by Leslie Harold Martin and Albert Alan TownsendOctober 1938
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