Richard V. Southwell

For other people with the same name, see Richard Southwell.

Richard Southwell
Born
Richard Vynne Southwell

2 July 1888
Norwich
Died9 December 1970(1970-12-09) (aged 82)
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge[3]
AwardsTimoshenko Medal (1959)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1964)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Imperial College London
Doctoral studentsLeslie Fox
Olgierd Zienkiewicz[2]

Sir Richard Vynne Southwell, FRS[1] (2 July 1888 – 9 December 1970) was a British mathematician who specialised in applied mechanics as an engineering science academic.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b Christopherson, D. G. (1972). "Richard Vynne Southwell 1888-1970". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 18: 549–565. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1972.0020. S2CID 122050415.
  2. ^ Richard V. Southwell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ SOUTHWELL, Sir Richard Vynne, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  4. ^ Sir Richard Southwell, MA, LLD, FRS: Rector 1942–48, Imperial College, London, UK.
  5. ^ "Annual Report". 1975.