George Barker Jeffery
George Barker Jeffery | |
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| Born | 9 May 1891 |
| Died | 27 April 1957 (aged 65) |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Jeffery–Hamel flow |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Schofield |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
George Barker Jeffery FRS (9 May 1891 – 27 April 1957) was a leading mathematical physicist in the early twentieth century. He is probably best known to the scientifically literate public as the translator of papers by Albert Einstein, Hendrik Lorentz, and other fathers of relativity theory.