Alexander Oliver RankineOBE FRS[1] (8 December 1881 – 20 January 1956) was a British physicist who worked on the viscosity of gases, molecular dynamics, optics, acoustics and geophysics.[2]
^ abThomson, G. P. (1956). "Alexander Oliver Rankine 1881-1956". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2: 248–255. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1956.0017. JSTOR 769488.
^From Lardner to Massey – a history of physics, space science and astronomy at University College London 1826 to 1975 (University College London)
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