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Authorised form of nameGibb; Sir; Alexander (1872 - 1958)
Dates1872 - 1958
NationalityBritish
Date of birth12 February 1872
Date of death21/01/1958
OccupationEngineer
ActivityCareer:
Fellow of University College
Honours:
CB 1918; KBE 1918; GBE 1920
Memberships:
MICE; MIMechE; MIChemE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1936
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1959 vol 5 pp 75-86, plate, by G P Harrison and A J S Pippard
CodeNA724
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1936/05Gibb, Sir Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/1206Gibb, Sir Alexander1946
RR/68/163Referee's report by Alexander Gibb, on a paper 'Relaxation methods applied to engineering problems VIIA - Biharmonic analysis as applied to the flexure and extension of flat elastic plates' by L Fox and Richard Vynne Southwell9 May 1941
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