Derek W. Moore
Derek William Moore (born April 19, 1931 in South Shields ; † July 15, 2008 ) was a British applied mathematician, known for investigating the mechanics of vortices in gases and liquids and for chaos theory .
Moore studied mathematics and physics at Cambridge University (Jesus College). He was at the Cavendish Laboratory from 1956 and received his doctorate in theoretical hydrodynamics under Ian Proudman . After that, he was at the University of Bristol and the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA . From 1967 he was at Imperial College London , where he was professor of applied mathematics from 1973 to 1999. Due to Parkinson's disease , he had to give up his scientific career in the early 1990s.
In 2001 he received the Senior Whitehead Prize . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1990) and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985).
Since the 1950s he played jazz clarinet and later tenor saxophone in university jazz bands at a high level. First he played in 1951 in a band of the pianist Tony Short and later, among others, in a quintet by Dick Heckstall-Smith .
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| SURNAME | Moore, Derek W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moore, Derek William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Shields |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 2008 |