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Authorised form of nameGoldstein; Sydney (1903 - 1989)
Dates1903 - 1989
Date of birth03/12/1903
Date of death22/01/1989
ActivityEducation:
PhD (Cambridge)
Career:
University Lecturer in Mathematics, Cambridge, and Fellow and Lecturer of St John's College
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/05/1937
Age at election33
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1990 vol 36 pp 173-197, plate, by Sir James Lighthill
References:
Maurice V Wilkes, 'Sir Edward Appleton and Early Ionosphere Research' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 281-290
CodeNA5264
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/001698Goldstein, Sydneynd
EC/1937/07Goldstein, Sydney: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001699Goldstein, Sydneynd
PB/2/2/5Folder labelled 'Breadth of Tracks'1933-1934
RR/72/193Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Integration of the laminar boundary layer equation. Parts I and II' by D Meksyn1949
RR/69/14Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Decay of vorticity in isotropic turbulence' by George Keith Batchelor and A A Townsend1946
RR/38/42Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The steady flow of viscous fluid past a fixed spherical obstacle at small reynolds numbers' by Sydney Goldstein1928
RR/38/40Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The influence of the earth's magnetic field on electric transmission in the upper atmosphere' by Sydney GoldsteinJuly 1928
RR/38/43Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'The steady flow of viscous fluid past a fixed spherical obstacle at small reynolds numbers' by Sydney GoldsteinJanuary 1929
RR/38/41Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The forces on a solid body moving through viscous fluid' by Sydney GoldsteinJanuary 1929
RR/63/9Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Solution of Oseen's equations for an inclined elliptic cylinder in a viscous fluid' by D MeksynJune 1937
RR/49/137Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the two-dimensional steady flow of a viscous fluid behind a solid body. I' by Sydney Goldstein[July 1933]
RR/49/138Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the two-dimensional steady flow of a viscous fluid behind a solid body. II' by Sydney Goldstein[July 1933]
RR/70/108Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'The diffraction of sound pulses by an infinitely long strip' by E N Fox1947
RR/69/239Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Wind tunnel test of a wing of finite aspect ratio of symmetrical double wedge section at supersonic speeds' by P L Orman, R S Rae and G N Ward1945
RR/63/10Second referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Solution of Oseen's equations for an inclined elliptic cylinder in a viscous fluid' by D MeksynJuly 1937
RR/72/241Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Correlated incompressible and compressible boundary layers' by K Stewartson1939
RR/69/97Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Shock-wave and boundary-layer phenomena near a flat surface' by Arthur Fage and R F Sargent1946
RR/59/99Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'A note on the measurement of total head and static pressure in a turbulent stream' by Sydney Goldstein[March 1936]
RR/70/27Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'A study by a double-refraction method of the development of turbulence in a long circular tube' by Alfred Maurice Binnie and J S Fowler1947
RR/70/60Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Flow of a compressible fluid about a cylinder' by Thomas Macfarland Cherry 1947
RR/69/311Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Measurements in the turbulent wake of a cylinder' by Albert Alan Townsend1946
RR/69/236Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'The two-dimensional hydrodynamical theory of moving aerofoils. IV' by Rosa M Morris1946
RR/69/232Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Fluid motion between parallel planes. Dynamical stability' by D Meksyn14 April 1945
RR/71/265Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'A physical theory of supersonic aerofoils in unsteady flow' by William John Strang1948
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/68/458Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'The calculation of variable heat flow in solids' by N R Eyres, Douglas Rayner Hartree, J Ingham, R Jackson, R J Sarjant and J B Wagstaff[1944]
RR/41/104Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The forces on a solid body moving through viscous fluid' by Sydney GoldsteinJanuary 1931
RR/70/183Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations of bodies of revolution. Motion of a sphere' by D Meksyn1947
RR/71/203Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Integration of the boundary-layer equations for a plane in a compressible fluid' by D Meksyn1948
RR/72/242Letter from Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Transient source, doublet and vortex solutions of the linearized equations of supersonic flow' by William John Strang to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society17 January 1950
PB/4/13/5Correspondence and papers re Aircraft Research Committee. 1949
RR/65/36Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Relaxation methods applied to engineering problems IV. Problems relating to elastic stability and vibrations' by K N E Bradfield, Derman Guy Christopherson and Richard Vynne SouthwellAugust 1938
PB/4/13/1Preliminary correspondence and papers re setting up of Committee, invitation to Blackett to serve as Chairman, membership of Committee, etc. up to 1st meeting (28 January 1947).1946-1947
RR/66/63Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Some cases of the steady two-dimensional percolation of water through ground' by B Davison and Louis Rosenhead[January 1940]
RR/59/98Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'The similarity theory of turbulence, and flow between parallel planes and through pipes' by Sydney Goldstein[November 1936]
RR/65/56Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Relaxation methods applied to engineering problems. III. Problems involving independent variables' by D G Christopherson and Richard Vynne SouthwellJune 1938
RR/70/182Letter from Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations of bodies of revolution. Motion of a sphere' by D Meksyn to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society15 January 1948
RR/73/91Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The decay of axisymmetric turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar19 May 1950
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