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DR. D.G. CHRISTOPHERSON, whose appointement as professor of mechanical engineering at the University of heeds, in succession to the late Prof. W. T. David, has been announced, was educated at Sherborne School and University College, Oxford, where he tool first-class honours in engineering science in 1937. He held a Henry Fellowship at Harvard University during 1938-39, and was for several years a member of Sir Richard Southwell's research team developing 'relaxation methods'. He was part author of the first paper in which the application of these methods to partial differential equations was presented, and his thesis for the Ph.D. degree in 1941 dealt entirely with this important branch of the work. During the period 1941-45, he was a member of the scientific staff of the Research and Experiments Department, Ministry of Home Security, and was made an O.B.E. in 1945. Dr. Christopherson was appointed a University demonstrator in the Department of Engineering, Cambridge, in April 1945, and was elected a Fellow of Magdalene College. In 1946 he was promoted to lecturer and in 1947 he became bursar of Magdalene. Though Christopherson has contributed papers on vibrations and structural problems, his interests lie mainly in the region of applied mechanics, and particularly in the theory of lubrication.
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Engineering at the University of Leeds : Prof. D. G. Christopherson, O.B.E. Nature 163, 475 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163475a0
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