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John Ffowcs Williams

British engineer-scientist, researcher of numerical aeroacoustics (1935-2020)

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Born: 25 May 1935
Died: 12 Dec 2020
Works: 7

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Thoughts on the problem of aerodynamic noise sources near solid boundaries
Aeronautical acoustics as a problem in applied mathematics
Modern methods for flow-noise analysis. Vol. 2
Measuring turbulence with a view to estimating the noise field
Some thoughts on the effects of aircraft motion and eddy convection on the noise from air jets

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1932-02-08

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5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

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1935 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Welsh engineers 21st-century Welsh engineers Academics of Imperial College London Alumni of the University of Southampton British fluid dynamicists Fellows of the Institute of Physics Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society Masters of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Place of birth missing

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Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

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Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

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Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

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