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Authorised form of nameJeffery; George Barker (1891 - 1956)
Dates1891 - 1956
Date of birth09 May 1891
Date of death27/04/1956
ActivityEducation:
MA; DSc
Career:
Professor of Mathematics at University College, London
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/05/1926
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1938-1940
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1958 vol 4 pp 129-137, plate, by E C Titchmarsh
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/113252126
CodeNA1137
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1926/17Jeffery, George Barker: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/19/73Referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'On a form of the solution of Laplace's equation suitable for problems relating to two spheres' by George Barker Jeffery10 May 1912
IM/GA/WS/1643Jeffery, George Barkernd
RR/27/95Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'The motion of ellipsoidal particles immersed in a viscous fluid' by George Barker JefferyFebruary 1922
RR/19/72Detailed referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'On a form of the solution of Laplace's equation suitable for problems relating to two spheres' by George Barker Jeffery[1912]
RR/36/70Referee's report by George Barker Jeffrey, on a paper 'On Fresnel's convection coefficient in general relativity' by N R Sen[May 1927]
RR/27/96Referee's report by John William Nicholson, on a paper 'The rotation of two circular cylinders in a viscous fluid' by George Barker JefferyJanuary 1922
RR/35/79Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The fundamental equation of wave mechancis and the [metrics] of space' by H T Flint and J W FisherOctober 1927
NLB/62/457Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [George Barker] Jeffery; University College, Gower Street, W.C.l.17 February 1922
NLB/62/483Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [George Barker] Jeffery, FRS; University College, Gower Street, W.C.l.21 February 1922
RR/38/130Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'System of line vortices in a channel of finite breadth' by Louis RosenheadJanuary 1929
RR/27/97Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The rotation of two circular cylinders in a viscous fluid' by George Barker JefferyFebruary 1922
RR/36/60Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'Resistance to a barrier in the shape of an arc of a circle' by Louis Rosenhead and S Brodetsky[October 1927]
NLB/62/633Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [George Barker] Jeffery, FRS; University College, Gower Street, W.C.l.28 March 1922
RR/66/76Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The masses of the meson and mesotron' by Arthur Stanley Eddington1 November 1939
RR/66/75Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'A new derivation of the quadratic equation for the masses of the proton and electron' by Arthur Stanley Eddington1 November 1939
NLB/62New Letter Book volume 62, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration11 November 1921-10 June 1922
RR/66/338Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The asymptotic expansion of integral functions defined by Taylor series' by Ernest Marshall Wright[July 1939]
RR/67/405Letter from George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'Complex potentials in two-dimensional elasticity. II' by A C Stevenson to the Secretary of the Royal Society9 December 1940
RR/69/70Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'Application of quaternions to rotations in hyperbolic space of four dimensions' by Arthur William Conway31 March 1947
RR/68/254Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy25 September 1942
RR/69/296Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The distribution of stress in the neighbourhood of a crack in an elastic solid' by Ian Naismith Sneddon11 January 1946
RR/67/434Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The asymptotic expansion of integral functions defined by Taylor series' by Ernest Marshall Wright5 December 1940
NLB/70/587Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Barker] Jeffery, FRS27 May 1927
NLB/70/616Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Barker] Jeffery, FRS8 June 1927
NLB/72/26Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Barker] Jeffery, FRS24 January 1929
IM/GA/WS/3Jeffery, George Barkernd
RR/34/132Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'On Hilbert's world-function' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker[November 1926]
RR/66/262Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The steady two-dimensional radial flow of viscous fluid between two inclined plane walls' by Louis Rosenhead[April 1940]
RR/67/215Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'General bi-harmonic analysis for a plate containing circular holes' by Albert Edward GreenMay 1940
RR/42/18Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The steady broadside motion of an anchor ring in an infinite viscous liquid' by F E ReltonJune 1931
RR/67/198Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Stress systems in aeolotropic plates, III' by Albert Edward Green to George Barker Jeffery6 November 1940
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