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Authorised form of nameGreenhill; Sir; Alfred George (1847 - 1927)
Dates1847 - 1927
NationalityBritish
Date of birth29 November 1847
Date of death10/02/1927
Research fieldApplied mathematics
ActivityEducation:
Cambridge. MA
Career:
Professor of Mathematics, Artillery College, Woolwich.
Honours:
Kt 1908
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1888
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1906
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Greenhill of London; unmarried
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1928 vol 119 pp i-iv, plate, signed by H F B
References:
C Domb, 'James Clerk Maxwell in London 1860-1865' in NR 1980 vol 35 pp 67-103
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/49986812
CodeNA8228
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/64/64Copy letter from an unknown correspondent; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS26 January 1923
NLB/6/462Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrisons & Sons16 May 1892
NLB/3/176Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society4 April 1889
NLB/7/176Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society 14 December 1892
NLB/7/208Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society20 December 1892
NLB/7/183Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Archibald Geikie, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society16 December 1892
NLB/10/51Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society18 September 1894
NLB/12/828Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society, Artillary College, Red Barracks, Woolwich13 May 1896
RR/16/61Referee's report by Hector Munro MacDonald, on a paper 'The third elliptic integral' by Alfred George Greenhill8 February 1904
NLB/14/479Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, [Fellow of the Royal Society]17 March 1897
NLB/14/480Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, [Fellow of the Royal Society]17 March 1897
RR/16/60Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'The third elliptic integral' by Alfred George GreenhillJanuary 1904
RR/16/179Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'Exterior ballistics. 'Error of the day' and other corrections to naval range-tables' by George Forbes22 December 1904
NLB/15/433Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society2 October 1897
NLB/15/435Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society4 October 1897
NLB/20/60Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Turner, Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellows of the Royal Society23 January 1900
NLB/24/699Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Alfred George] Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society18 June 1902
RR/22/39Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'A diagram to facilitate the study of external ballistics' by William Ernest Dalby7 June 1915
RR/23/5Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'The two-dimensional motion of a plane lamina in a resisting medium' by S Brodetsky21 November 1916
NLB/28/74Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Augustus Edward Hough Love, Fellow of the Royal Society5 January 1904
NLB/28/297Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Augustus Edward Hough Love, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee13 February 1904
NLB/28/337Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill18 February 1904
NLB/28/815Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1 Staple Inn, W.C.30 May 1904
NLB/28/875Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society8 June 1904
NLB/31/414Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society14 September 1905
NLB/32/225Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society1 February 1906
NLB/34/102Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society28 November 1906
NLB/33/788Copy letter from [Joseph Larmor], to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society3 November 1906
NLB/29/918Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society12 January 1905
NLB/35/179Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society29 April 1907
NLB/37/337Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons3 March 1908
NLB/35/628Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society21 June 1907
NLB/36/860Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons3 January 1908
NLB/63/48Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS17 June 1922
NLB/54/371Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS25 April 1917
RR/23/98Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'Motion of solids in fluids when the flow is not irrotational' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor17 May 1916
NLB/54/378Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS26 April 1917
RR/17/203Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'Ranges and behaviour of rifled projectiles in air' by Arnulph Henry Reginald Mallock[June 1907]
NLB/54/384Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James Hopwood] Jeans, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS27 April 1917
NLB/54/644Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS12 July 1917
RR/25/15Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'Electromagnetic integrals' by Alfred George Greenhill[May 1918]
NLB/56/388Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS28 January 1919
NLB/68/486Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS16 July 1925
NLB/57/305Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS11 October 1919
NLB/59/911Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS30 November 1920
RR/10/138Letter from Alfred George Greenhill, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On Aeolotropic elastic solids' by Charles Chree3 November 1888
NLB/57/348Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS24 October 1919
RR/12/384Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'Theorems on the attraction of ellipsoids for certain laws of force other than the inverse square' by Edward John Routh3 July 1895
NLB/58/875Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS28 June 1920
NLB/59/826Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS17 November 1920
RR/24/38Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The Rankine trochoidal wave' by Alfred George Greenhill[June 1917]
RR/25/16Referee's report by Frank Edward Smith, on a paper 'Electromagnetic integrals' by Alfred George Greenhill[July 1918]
NLB/54/602Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [James Hopwood] Jeans, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS2 July 1917
NLB/55/553Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison], Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [James Hopwood] Jeans Esq., Chairman of the Mathematics Committee and FRS01 June 1918
NLB/66/814Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] George Greenhill, FRS16 July 1924
NLB/71/285Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Publisher, 'The Times'15 March 1928
NLB/3/272Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society, 3 Staples Inn, W.C.26 April 1889
RR/13/303Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'On boomerangs' by Gilbert Thomas Walker10 May 1897
EC/1888/15Greenhill, Sir Alfred George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/28/790Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society20 May 1904
NLB/39/661Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to J Prescott, 61 Ripplingham Road, Withington, Manchester20 February 1909
RR/10/134Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'On Aeolotropic elastic solids' by Charles Chree30 July 1888
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/10/167Letter from Alfred George Greenhill, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth17 November 1888
RR/17/48Referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'On the elliptic integral in electromagnetic theory' by Alfred George Greenhill23 January 1906
RR/10/165Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth23 July 1888
RR/12/380Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'On the Abelian system of differential equations, and their rational and integral algebraic integrals, with a discussion of the periodicity of Abelian functions' by W R Westropp Roberts14 February 1895
RR/24/60Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'Discontinuous fluid motion' by J G Leathem10 May 1917
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