- Leonard Bairstow
Sir Leonard Bairstow, CBE
Royal Society ,
FRSFRAeS (1880-1963) was a son of Uriah Bairstow, a wealthyHalifax, West Yorkshire man and keenmathematician . Leonard was born in 1880 in Halifax he is best remembered for is work inaviation and forBairstow's method for arbitrarily finding the roots of polynomials.As a boy, Leonard went to Queens Road and Moorside Council Schools before going to
Heath Grammar School which he attended briefly before going to the Council Secondary School - then known as the Higher Grade School. A scholarship took him to theRoyal College of Science where he secured a Whitworth Scholarship which enabled him to carry out research into explosion of gases. He then went to the National Physical Laboratory atBushy Park where ultimately he became head of aeroplane research work. He held the Zaharoff Chair of Aviation atImperial college from 1920-1949 and became Professor Sir Leonard Bairstow.He became a member of the
Royal Society of London and theRoyal Aeronautical Society .References
*A. Fage, et al. "Leonard Bairstow. 1880-1963."
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , Vol. 11, (Nov., 1965), pp. 22-40. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0080-4606(196511)11%3C22%3ALB1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z JSTOR] .External links
* http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101030543/
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