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Authorised form of nameHooker; Sir; Stanley George (1907 - 1984)
Dates1907 - 1984
Date of birth30/09/1907
Date of death24/05/1984
ActivityHonours:
OBE 1946; CBE 1964; Kt 1974
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/03/1962
Age at election54
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1965-1967
Medals and prizes:
Leverhulme Medal 1981
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1986 vol 32 pp 275-319, plate, by P H J Young, L Haworth, H Pearson, G L Wilde and J E Ffowcs Williams
CodeNA682
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
HWT/39/77Great Britain-China Committee (later Great Britain-China Centre)October 1975
HWT/39/111Great Britain-China Committee (later Great Britain-China Centre)March 1978
HWT/39/110Great Britain-China Committee (later Great Britain-China Centre)February 1978
HWT/39/84Great Britain-China Committee (later Great Britain-China Centre)February 1976
RR/48/30Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Two-dimensional oscillations in divergent jets of compressible fluid' by Stanley George Hooker[February 1934]
RR/48/29Second referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Two-dimensional oscillations in divergent jets of compressible fluid' by Stanley George Hooker[March 1934]
HWT/39/85Great Britain-China Committee (later Great Britain-China Centre)February 1976
EC/1962/12Hooker, Stanley George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/56/24Second referee's report by Louis Napoleon George Filon, on a paper 'On the action of viscosity in increasing the spacing ratio of a vortex street' by Stanley George Hooker[October 1935]
RR/57/117Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Conformal transformation with the aid of an electrical tank' by K N E Bradfield, Stanley George Hooker and Richard Vynne Southwell[November 1936]
RR/43/67Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The flow of a compressible liquid in the neighbourhood of the throat of a constriction in a circular wind channel' by Stanley George HookerDecember 1931
RR/56/23Referee's report by Louis Napoleon George Filon, on a paper 'On the action of viscosity in increasing the spacing ratio of a vortex street' by Stanley George Hooker[August 1935]
RR/57/104Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The flow under gravity of an incompressible and inviscid fluid through a constriction in a horizontal channel' by Alfred Maurice Binnie and Stanley George Hooker[November 1936]
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