Arquivo TAYL - Papers of Sir Geoffrey Taylor (G. I. Taylor)

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TAYL

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Papers of Sir Geoffrey Taylor (G. I. Taylor)

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  • 1777-1975 (Produção)

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Arquivo

Dimensão e suporte

17 boxes

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Nome do produtor

(1886-1975)

História biográfica

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was born on 7 March 1886, the son of Edward Ingram Taylor and his wife Margaret, who was the daughter of the mathematician George Boole. He was admitted to Trinity College Cambridge in 1905 where he read first Mathematics and thenread more

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The material was received from Professor G.K. Batchelor, Taylor's scientific executor. It had been assembled over a period of time from various sites in `Farmfield', Taylor's home in Cambridge, and from colleagues and friends; it represents all thatread more

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Âmbito e conteúdo

These surviving records are variable - even capricious - in content and time-span, for reasons inherent in Taylor's temperament, interests and methods of work. For most of his career he held research posts, especially the Yarrow Research Professorship ofread more

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Condições de acesso

This material is open for research unless otherwise stated.

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Nota de publicação

The main reference throughout is to the Memoir written by Batchelor (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 22, 1976, pp.565-633) and is given in the form: Batchelor, Memoir, p...

Added in 1996: The Life and Legacy of G. I. Taylor by G. K.read more

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Nota

By Jeannine Alton, Harriot Weiskittel and Julia Latham-Jackson

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

As will be clear from the foregoing, the essential debt is owed to G.K. Batchelor. The assembling, ordering and identification of many of the items in the collection areread more