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Authorised form of nameHowarth; Leslie (1911 - 2001)
Dates1911 - 2001
NationalityBritish
Date of birth23/05/1911
Place of deathMaldon, Essex
Date of death22/09/2001
Research fieldMathematics
Aerodynamics
ActivityEducation:
Accrington Grammar School; Manchester University (mathematics); Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1931). Part II Mathematical Tripos (1933); PhD (1936)
Career:
Research student under Sydney Goldstein (FRS 1937); Berry-Ramsey Research Fellow, King's College Cambridge (1936-1945); Lecturer in Mathematics, Cambridge University (1936-1949); California Institute of Technology (1937-1938); co-wrote, with Theodore von Karman (For Mem RS 1946) a paper proposing the 'Karman-Howarth relation'; served in the External Ballistics Department Ordnance Board (1939-1942) and the Armament Research Department (1942-1945); returned to Cambridge (1945); Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge (1945-1949); Professor of Applied Mathematics, Bristol University (1949-1964); Dean, Faculty of Science, Bristol University (1957-1960); Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics and Head, Department of Mathematics (1964); retired (1976)
Honours:
OBE 1955
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1950
Age at election38
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1954-1956
RelationshipsMarried (1934) Eva Priestley; two sons
CodeNA7926
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1950/13Howarth, Leslie: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/75/8Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Motion in the wake of a thin plate at zero incidence' by D Meksyn13 February 1951
RR/64/58Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On the solution of the Laminar Boundary Layer Equations' by Leslie Howarth[December 1937]
RR/70/143Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Concerning the effect of compressibility on laminar boundary layers and their separation' by Leslie Howarth1947
RR/70/144Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'Concerning the effect of compressibility on laminar boundary layers and their separation' by Leslie Howarth1947
IM/GA/WS/3879Howarth, Lesliend
RR/56/31Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'On the calculation of the velocity and temperature distributions for flow along a flat plate' by Leslie Howarth[December 1935]
RR/56/29Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'The theoretical determination of the lift coefficient for a thin elliptic cylinder' by Leslie Howarth[March 1935]
PB/1/33/2Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society1956
RR/56/30Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'On the calculation of the velocity and temperature distributions for flow along a flat plate' by Leslie Howarth4 December 1935
RR/64/79Referee's report by Louis Napoleon George Filon, on a paper 'On the statistical theory of isotropic turbulence' by Theodore von Karman and Leslie Howarth[March 1937]
RR/73/261Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Similarity and self-preservation in isotropic turbulence' by Robert William Stewart and Albert Alan Townsend7 November 1950
RR/75/14Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'The asymptotic behaviour of viscous fluid flow at a great distance from a cylindrical body, with special reference to Filon's paradox' by Isao Imai13 February 1951
RR/75/151Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Numerical integration of the boundary layer equation' by D Meskyn23 July 1951
RR/75/98Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'The fine-scale structure of turbulence' by A A Townsend30 April 1951
RR/75/186Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'The diffusion of heat spots in isotropic turbulence' by Albert Alan Townsend27 July 1951
RR/75/258Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'turbulence caused by thermal instability' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar18 October 1951
RR/77/228Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'On boundary layers and upstream influence. II. Supersonic flows without separation' by Michael James Lighthill27 November 1952
RR/79/134Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Integration of the equations of transonic flow in two dimensions' by D Meskyn9 July 1953
RR/75/52Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Stability of viscous motion parallel planes for finite disturbances' by D Meskyn and J T Stuart19 March 1951
RR/79/76Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'The forces acting on a circular cylinder set obliquely in a uniform stream at low values of Reynolds number' by T Aoi, S Tomotika and H Yosinobu16 April 1953
RR/79/301Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Mass transfer in fluid flow from a solid sphere' by F H Garner and R W Grafton21 December 1953
RR/79/324Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'The response of laminar skin friction and heat transfer to fluctuations in the stream velocity' by Michael James Lighthill5 February 1954
RR/73/91Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The decay of axisymmetric turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar19 May 1950
RR/79/323Letter from Leslie Howarth to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The response of laminar skin friction and heat transfer to fluctuations in the stream velocity' by Michael James Lighthill5 February 1954
RR/77/226Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'On boundary layers and upstream influence. I. A comparison between subsonic and supersonic flows' by Michael James Lighthill20 November 1952
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