| 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 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1950/13 | Howarth, Leslie: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/75/8 | Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Motion in the wake of a thin plate at zero incidence' by D Meksyn | 13 February 1951 |
| 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/73/261 | Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Similarity and self-preservation in isotropic turbulence' by Robert William Stewart and Albert Alan Townsend | 7 November 1950 |
| RR/75/14 | Referee'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 Imai | 13 February 1951 |
| RR/75/151 | Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Numerical integration of the boundary layer equation' by D Meskyn | 23 July 1951 |
| RR/75/98 | Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'The fine-scale structure of turbulence' by A A Townsend | 30 April 1951 |
| RR/75/186 | Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'The diffusion of heat spots in isotropic turbulence' by Albert Alan Townsend | 27 July 1951 |
| RR/75/258 | Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'turbulence caused by thermal instability' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 18 October 1951 |
| RR/77/228 | Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'On boundary layers and upstream influence. II. Supersonic flows without separation' by Michael James Lighthill | 27 November 1952 |
| RR/79/134 | Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Integration of the equations of transonic flow in two dimensions' by D Meskyn | 9 July 1953 |
| RR/75/52 | Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Stability of viscous motion parallel planes for finite disturbances' by D Meskyn and J T Stuart | 19 March 1951 |
| RR/79/76 | Referee'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 Yosinobu | 16 April 1953 |
| RR/79/301 | Referee's report by Leslie Howarth, on a paper 'Mass transfer in fluid flow from a solid sphere' by F H Garner and R W Grafton | 21 December 1953 |
| RR/79/324 | Referee'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 Lighthill | 5 February 1954 |
| RR/73/91 | Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The decay of axisymmetric turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 19 May 1950 |
| RR/79/323 | Letter 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 Lighthill | 5 February 1954 |
| RR/77/226 | Referee'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 Lighthill | 20 November 1952 |