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]
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| Born | Anthony James Merrill Spencer 23 August 1929 |
| Died | 26 February 2008 (aged 78) |
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| Awards | FRS (1987)[1] |
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| 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] |
Awards and honours
editSpencer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1987.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Chadwick, P.; England, A. H.; Parker, D. F. (2015). "Anthony James Merrill Spencer 23 August 1929 — 26 January 2008". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 61. Royal Society publishing. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0003. ISSN 0080-4606.
- ^ a b Anthony James Merrill Spencer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Anthony James Merrill Spencer", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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