George Barker Jeffery

George Barker Jeffery
Born(1891-05-09)9 May 1891
Died27 April 1957(1957-04-27) (aged 65)
Alma mater
Known forJeffery–Hamel flow
SpouseElizabeth Schofield[1]
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]

George Barker Jeffery FRS[1] (9 May 1891 – 27 April 1957) was a leading mathematical physicist in the early twentieth century. He is probably best known to the scientifically literate public as the translator of papers by Albert Einstein, Hendrik Lorentz, and other fathers of relativity theory.[2][3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ a b c Titchmarsh, E. C. (1958). "George Barker Jeffery 1891-1957". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4: 128–137. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1958.0012. S2CID 73132435.
  2. ^ Lorentz, H. A.; Einstein, A.; Minkowski, H.; Weyl, H. (1952) [1923]. The Principle of Relativity. Translated by Perrett, W.; Jeffery, G. B. New York: Dover. ISBN 9780486600819. SBN 486-60081-5.
  3. ^ Baldwin, O. R.; Jeffery, G. B. (1926). "The Relativity Theory of Plane Waves". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 111 (757): 95. Bibcode:1926RSPSA.111...95B. doi:10.1098/rspa.1926.0051.
  4. ^ Jeffery, G. B. (1922). "The Motion of Ellipsoidal Particles Immersed in a Viscous Fluid". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 102 (715): 161–179. Bibcode:1922RSPSA.102..161J. doi:10.1098/rspa.1922.0078.
  5. ^ E. C. Titchmarsh (2004). "Jeffery, George Barker (1891–1957), mathematician and educationist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34168. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "George Barker Jeffery", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews