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Physicist
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26 July 1935(Slough, Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom)
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24 April 1998(Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA)
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University of Cambridge
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David Tritton was a fluid dynamicist.
Tritton was born in Slough on 26 July 1935. He received his PhD under Alan Townsend at Cambridge on "Experiments on Flow past Cylinders and Free Convection" . Subsequently, he worked at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. He was a visiting professor in Texas when he died on 24 April 1998 .
Tritton is known for his textbook "Physical Fluid Dynamics".