Philip Saffman
British mathematician (1931–2008) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Philip Geoffrey Saffman FRS[1] (19 March 1931 – 17 August 2008) was a mathematician and the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Applied Mathematics and Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
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Born | Philip Geoffrey Saffman (1931-03-19)19 March 1931 Leeds, England |
Died | 17 August 2008(2008-08-17) (aged 77) Los Angeles |
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Ruth Arion (m. 1954) |
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Doctoral advisor | George Batchelor[6] |
Doctoral students | Francis Bretherton |
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