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Authorised form of nameTemple; George Frederick James (1901 - 1992)
Dates1901 - 1992
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth02/09/1901
Place of deathQuarr, Isle of Wight
Date of death30/01/1992
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1955
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1943
Age at election41
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Sylvester Medal 1970
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1994 vol 40 pp 383-400, plate, by C W Kilmister
CodeNA2227
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1943/18Temple, George Frederick James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
GLB/19/1/121G Temple, Mathematical Institute, Oxford to Brown24 April 1960
IM/GA/SGRS/8434Temple, George Frederick James1985
IM/004518Temple, George Frederick Jamesnd
RR/70/156Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The hodograph transformation in trans-sonic flow. II. Auxiliary theorems on the hypergeometric functions' by Michael James Lighthill1947
RR/72/180Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The diffraction of blast. II' by M J Lighthill15 October 1949
RR/70/106Letter from George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The diffraction of sound pulses by an infinitely long strip' by E N Fox to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society7 January 1948
RR/70/245Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The use of flat-ended projectiles for determining dynamic yield stress - II. Tests on various metallic materials' by A C Whiffin10 September 1947
RR/69/207Letter from George Frederick Temple, on a paper 'The hodograph transformation in trans-sonic flow. I. Symmetrical channels' by Michael James Lighthill to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society1 March 1947
RR/69/205Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The hodograph transformation in trans-sonic flow. I. Symmetrical channels' by Michael James Lighthill10 November 1946
RR/70/107Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The diffraction of sound pulses by an infinitely long strip' by E N Fox10 September 1947
RR/68/146Letter to George Frederick James Temple, regarding a paper 'Two-dimensional boundary-value problems of elasticity' by Bibhutibhusan Sen17 July 1945
RR/69/82Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The establishment of the dilatation effect in a field of sound waves' by P M Davidson9 February 1946
RR/69/83Letter from George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The establishment of the dilatation effect in a field of sound waves' by P M Davidson22 December 1946
RR/70/155Letter from George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The hodograph transformation in trans-sonic flow. II. Auxiliary theorems on the hypergeometric functions' by Michael James Lighthill to David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society20 May 1947
RR/70/51Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The use of flat-ended projectiles for determining dynamic yield stress III. Changes in microstructure caused by deformation under impact at high-striking velocities' by W E Carrington and Marie L V Gayler11 September 1947
RR/70/157Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The hodograph transformation in trans-sonic flow. III. Flow round a body' by Michael James Lighthill1947
RR/71/77Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The indefinite metric in relativistic quantum mechanics' by K J Le Couteur30 July 1948
RR/71/105Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The diffraction of two-dimensional sound pulses incident on an infinite uniform slit in a perfectly reflecting screen' by E N Fox[1948]
RR/72/199Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The relativity of Galilean frames' by Edward Arthur Milne1949
RR/69/206Letter from George Frederick Temple, on a paper 'The hodograph transformation in trans-sonic flow. I. Symmetrical channels' by Michael James Lighthill to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society10 December 1946
RR/70/236Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The use of flat-ended projectiles for determining dynamic yield stress I. Theoretical considerations' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor10 September 1947
RR/71/246Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The mathematical theory of the motion of rotated and unrotated rockets' by R A Rankin12 April 1948
RR/70/154Letter from David Christie Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The hodograph transformation in trans-sonic flow. II. Auxiliary theorems on the hypergeometric functions' by Michael James Lighthill to George Frederick James Temple9 May 1947
RR/72/79Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'World-structure and non-Euclidean honeycombs' by Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter and G J Whitrow11 December 1949
RR/72/197Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'Focusing effects in two-dimensional, supersonic flow' by R E Mayer1949
RR/72/8Referee's report by George Frederick Temple, on a paper 'Relaxation methods applied to engineering problems. XIV. Plastic straining in two-dimensional stress systems' by D N De G Allen and Richard Vynne Southwell1949
RR/72/153Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The theory of plane plastic strain for anisotropic metals' by R Hill15 March 1949
IM/GA/WS/2769Temple, George Frederick Jamesnd
RR/68/149Letter to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, from George Frederick James Temple, regarding a paper 'Two-dimensional boundary-value problems of elasticity' by Bibhutibhusan Sen14 July 1945
RR/69/135Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on two papers 'Linearized supersonic aerofoil theory parts I and II' by J C Gunn16 March 1947
RR/72/181Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The behaviour of supersonic flow past a body of revolution, far from the axis' by Gerald Beresford Whitham1949
RR/73/37Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'Finite strains in an anisotropic elastic continuum' by James Gardner Oldroyd14 February 1950
RR/57/22Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'Gauss's theorem in general relativity' by George Frederick James Temple[November 1935]
RR/68/144Letter to George Frederick James Temple, from Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'Two-dimensional boundary-value problems of elasticity' by Bibhutibhusan Sen10 July 1945
RR/72/62Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The external gravitational and electromagnetic fields of rotating bodies' by G L Clark1949
RR/73/42Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'Contributions to the theory of heat transfer through a laminar boundary layer' by Michael James Lighthill1950
RR/73/115Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'Wave equations in momentum space' by M Levy1950
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