Tony Spencer | |
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Born | Anthony James Merrill Spencer 23 August 1929 |
Died | 26 February 2008 | (aged 78)
Alma mater | |
Awards | FRS (1987)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | |
Thesis | The solution of plane plastic-elastic problems by relaxation methods, with applications to the theory of brittle fracture (1955) |
Doctoral advisor | Ian Sneddon[2] |
Anthony James Merrill Spencer (23 August 1929 — 26 January 2008) FRS[1] was an applied mathematician whose main field of research was in understanding and predicting the mechanical behaviour of advanced materials.[2][3]