Authorised form of name | Howarth; Leslie (1911 - 2001) |
Dates | 1911 - 2001 |
Nationality | British |
Date of birth | 23/05/1911 |
Place of death | Maldon, Essex |
Date of death | 22/09/2001 |
Research field | Mathematics |
Aerodynamics |
Activity | Education: 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
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 16/03/1950 |
Age at election | 38 |
RSActivity | Royal Society roles: Council: 1954-1956 |
Relationships | Married (1934) Eva Priestley; two sons |
Code | NA7926 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1950/13 | Howarth, Leslie: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
RR/64/58 | Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On the solution of the Laminar Boundary Layer Equations' by Leslie Howarth | [December 1937] |
RR/70/143 | Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Concerning the effect of compressibility on laminar boundary layers and their separation' by Leslie Howarth | 1947 |
RR/70/144 | Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'Concerning the effect of compressibility on laminar boundary layers and their separation' by Leslie Howarth | 1947 |
IM/GA/WS/3879 | Howarth, Leslie | nd |
RR/56/31 | Referee'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/56/29 | Referee'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/1/33/2 | Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | 1956 |
RR/56/30 | Referee'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 Howarth | 4 December 1935 |
RR/64/79 | Referee'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/73/91 | Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The decay of axisymmetric turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 19 May 1950 |