| Authorised form of name | Duncan; William Jolly (1894 - 1960) |
| Dates | 1894 - 1960 |
| Date of birth | 26 April 1894 |
| Date of death | 09/12/1960 |
| Activity | Honours:
CBE 1953
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1947 |
| Sources | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1961 vol 7 pp 37-51, plate, by Ernest F Relf |
| Royal Society code | NA750 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1947/09 | Duncan, William Jolly: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WS/2629 | Duncan, William Jolly | 1946 |
| RR/38/25 | Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On the criteria for the stability of small motions' by Robert Alexander Frazer and William Jolly Duncan | May 1929 |
| RR/38/24 | Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On the numerical solution of equations with complex roots' by Robert Alexander Frazer and William Jolly Duncan | May 1929 |
| RR/43/18 | Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the torsion of cylinders of symmetrical section' by William Jolly Duncan | January 1932 |
| RR/71/204 | Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'Note on stability of laminar viscous flow between parallel planes' by D Meksyn | 1948 |
| RR/70/181 | Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations, I. Motion of an elliptic and circular cylinders' by D Meksyn | 1947 |
| RR/70/179 | Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations II. Integration of non-linear ordinary differential equations' by D Meksyn | 1947 |
| RR/70/184 | Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations of bodies of revolution. Motion of a sphere' by D Meksyn | 5 February 1948 |
| RR/70/180 | Letter from William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The laminar boundary-layer equations II. Integration of non-linear ordinary differential equations' by D Meksyn to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 23 September 1947 |
| RR/71/202 | Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'Integration of the boundary-layer equations for a plane in a compressible fluid' by D Meksyn | 1948 |
| RR/72/117 | Referee's report by William Jolly Duncan, on a paper 'The numerical solution of elliptic differential equations when the boundary conditions involve a derivative' by L Fox | 1949 |