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Authorised form of nameFrazer; Robert Alexander (1891 - 1959)
Dates1891 - 1959
NationalityBritish
Date of birth05 February 1891
Date of death10/12/1959
ActivityEducation:
City of London School (1902-1909). DSc
Career:
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/03/1946
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1961 vol 7 pp 75-84, plate, by A G Pugsley
CodeNA1260
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1946/09Frazer, Robert Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001554Frazer, Robert Alexander1961
RR/32/63Referee's report by Thomas Henry Havelock, on a paper 'On the motion of circular cylinders in a viscous fluid' by Robert Alexander FrazerMarch 1925
RR/69/108Referee's report by Leonard Bairstow, on a paper 'Bi-variate partial fractions and their applications to flutter and stability problems' by Robert Alexander Frazer1945
RR/38/25Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On the criteria for the stability of small motions' by Robert Alexander Frazer and William Jolly DuncanMay 1929
RR/32/64Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On the motion of circular cylinders in a viscous fluid' by Robert Alexander Frazer20 February 1925
RR/38/24Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On the numerical solution of equations with complex roots' by Robert Alexander Frazer and William Jolly DuncanMay 1929
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