Philip Saffman
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| Born | Philip Geoffrey Saffman 19 March 1931 Leeds, England |
| Died | 17 August 2008 (aged 77) Los Angeles |
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Ruth Arion (m. 1954) |
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| Doctoral advisor | George Batchelor |
| Doctoral students | Francis Bretherton |
Philip Geoffrey Saffman FRS (19 March 1931 – 17 August 2008) was a mathematician and the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Applied Mathematics and Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.