• Alfred John Sutton Pippard (6 April 1891 – 2 November 1969) was a British civil engineer and academic. Pippard was the son of a carpenter and joiner and...
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  • Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, FRS (7 September 1920 – 21 September 2008), was a British physicist. He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 until 1982...
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  • graduates and current students, she was selected for war work with Alfred Pippard at the Admiralty Air Department at age 19. After the war she returned...
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  • Physics. Brian Pippard became the first elected appointee to the newly retitled position in 1971. During his tenure as Cavendish Professor, Pippard strengthened...
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    were: 1913–1933: Stephen M. Dixon – (Railways and Bridges) 1933–1956: Alfred Pippard – (Structural Analysis and Aeronautical Structures) 1957–1976: Sir Alec...
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  • College to carry out research on dams under the supervision of Professors Alfred Pippard and Sir Richard V. Southwell. He was awarded the PhD degree in 1945...
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  • Engineering. Skempton also accumulated medals from the ICE (the 1968 James Alfred Ewing Medal), the Geological Society (the 1972 Lyell Medal), Newcomen Society...
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    bridges, particularly for military traffic. The method was developed by Alfred Pippard of Imperial College, London. The bridge's span, arch thickness and depth...
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    1957 93 Sir Frederick Arthur Whitaker January 1957 November 1958 94 Alfred Pippard November 1958 November 1959 95 Arthur Hartley November 1959 February...
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  • academic associations Preceded by Harold Gourley President of the Institution of Civil Engineers February 1957 – November 1958 Succeeded by Alfred Pippard...
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    University of St Andrews Longair, M. S.; Waldram, J. R. (2009). "Sir Alfred Brian Pippard. 7 September 1920 – 21 September 2008". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows...
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  • technical works using his real name. Aeroplane Structures, (1919/1935) with Alfred Pippard Wireless Construction, (1925) Broadcast Reception In Theory And Practice...
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  • working there he had met and married Hilary Saxton. The appointment of Alfred Pippard, a proponent of structural analysis, as president of the Institution...
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  • Mechanical Engineers 1951 Succeeded by Sir David Randall Pye Preceded by Alfred Pippard President of the Institution of Civil Engineers November 1959 – February...
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  • chemistry, P. W. Atkins, Oxford University Press, 1978, ISBN 0-19-855148-7 Pippard, Alfred B. (1981). "5: Useful ideas". Elements of classical thermodynamics:...
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  • Campbell MacIntosh Leonard Harrison Matthews Joseph Lade Pawsey Max Perutz Alfred Pippard Rosalind Pitt-Rivers Reginald Dawson Preston John William Sutton Pringle...
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  • astronomer, President from 1927 to 1929 of the Royal Astronomical Society Alfred Pippard (1891–1969), President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and Professor...
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    Laboratory on the old Cavendish site, where he was supervised by Brian Pippard. American physicist Philip Anderson, also a future Nobel Prize laureate...
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  • of Metals and Alloys, (Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1958) Brian Pippard, Nevill Francis Mott, Physics Today, March 1997, pp. 95 and 96: (pdf)....
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    point towards the past." [citation required] British physicist Sir Alfred Brian Pippard wrote: "There is thus no justification for the view, often glibly...
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    1098/rsbm.2011.0002. Longair, M. S.; Waldram, J. R. (2009). "Sir Alfred Brian Pippard. 7 September 1920 -- 21 September 2008". Biographical Memoirs of...
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    1907) C. Dieterici, Ann. Phys. Chem. Wiedemanns Ann. 69, 685 (1899) Pippard, Alfred B. (1981). Elements of classical thermodynamics: for advanced students...
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  • 385–403. Bibcode:2017JLTP..186..385D. doi:10.1007/s10909-016-1733-3. Pippard, Alfred B. (1981). Elements of classical thermodynamics: for advanced students...
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    and the Quantum, A. Douglas Stone, Princeton University Press, 2013. Pippard, Alfred B. (1981). Elements of classical thermodynamics: for advanced students...
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    York, New York: American Institute of Physics. ISBN 0-88318-797-3. Pippard, Alfred B. (1981). Elements of classical thermodynamics: for advanced students...
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    1093/oso/9780198845478.003.0002, ISBN 978-0-19-884547-8, retrieved June 25, 2024 Pippard, Alfred B. (1981). Elements of classical thermodynamics: for advanced students...
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    1970–1972 James W Menter 1972–1974 Sir Brian Flowers 1974–1976 Sir Brian Pippard 1976–1978 Basil J Mason 1978–1980 Rendel S Pease 1980–1982 Sir Denys Wilkinson...
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  • (1919–2007) Peter Westervelt (1919–2015) Isaak Khalatnikov (1919–2021) Brian Pippard (1920–2008) Kenneth Le Couteur (1920–2011) Cyril Domb (1920–2012) James...
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    translated by E.S. Halberstadt, Wiley–Interscience, London, ISBN 0-471-62430-6. Pippard, A.B. (1957/1966). Elements of Classical Thermodynamics for Advanced Students...
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    p. 60. ISBN 978-0123747006. Archived from the original on 2016-04-08. Pippard, A. B. (2007). The Physics of Vibration. Cambridge University Press. pp...
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