Sir Derman Guy Christopherson. 6 September 1915 — 7 November 2000-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Sir Derman Guy Christopherson. 6 September 1915 — 7 November 2000

Published:2004-01 Issue: Volume:50 Page:47-59
ISSN:0080-4606
Container-title:Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
language:en
Short-container-title:Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc.

Author:

Dowson Duncan¹,Higginson Gordon²

Affiliation:

1. School of Mechanical Engineering, The UniversityLeeds LS2 9JTUK

2. 61 Albany Park Court, Westwood Road, Southampton SO17 1LAUK

Abstract

Derman Christopherson was characterized principally by his kindness and humanity, recognized by all who knew him, in any capacity. Those who came into contact with him professionally soon appreciated his physical insight and his versatility—he was equally at home with solid and fluid mechanics and he had considerable mathematical skills. He recommended to his graduate students that success came from the ability ‘to bring home the bacon in a number of fields’. He was an inspirational supervisor—informal, personal, friendly. In relatively few papers he contributed significant applications in elasticity, plasticity and viscous flow, and pioneered the application of Southwell's relaxation method to the solution of engineering problems.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.2004.0005

Reference27 articles.

1. The following publications are those referred to directly in the text. A full bibliography

2. appears on the accompanying microfiche numbered as in the second column. A photocopy is

3. available from The Royal Society's Library at cost.

4. (1) 1937 Relaxation methods applied to grid frameworks. Aeronautical Research Committee Reports

5. and Memoranda no. 1824.