About John Richard Anthony Pearson
Born 1930. John Richard Anthony Pearson is a British scientist, known for Fluid mechanics.
John Richard Anthony Pearson FRS FIMMM MIChemE (born 18 September 1930) is a Scientific Consultant at Schlumberger Cambridge Research and Chairman of the Pearson Publishing Group since 1993.
Early life Pearson was born in Cairo on 18 September 1930
Pearson was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005. Commenting on the Fellowship, the University of Cambridge stated that he had ‘pioneered developments in fluid mechanics, including the first asymptotic analysis of viscous flow past a cylinder, a rapid-distortion theory of turbulence and studies of Marangoni convection, and the instability of flow under rollers’.
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Professor of Chemical Engineering
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John Richard Anthony Pearson was born on 18 September 1930.
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John Richard Anthony Pearson is known for Fluid mechanics.
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