Anthony James Merrill Spencer

Tony Spencer
Born
Anthony James Merrill Spencer

(1929-08-23)23 August 1929
Died26 February 2008(2008-02-26) (aged 78)
Alma mater
AwardsFRS (1987)
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis The solution of plane plastic-elastic problems by relaxation methods, with applications to the theory of brittle fracture  (1955)
Doctoral advisorIan Sneddon

Anthony James Merrill Spencer (23 August 1929 — 26 January 2008) FRS was an applied mathematician whose main field of research was in understanding and predicting the mechanical behaviour of advanced materials.