Keith Moffatt

Keith Moffatt (also Henry Keith Moffatt ), (born April 12, 1935 in Edinburgh ) is a British mathematical physicist .

Moffat studied at the University of Edinburgh (Bachelor's degree in 1957) and then at Trinity College of Cambridge University , where he the 1960 Smith Prize won and 1962 when George Batchelor on magneto-hydrodynamic turbulence received his doctorate. In 1961 he became a Fellow of Trinity College and Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1964 he became a lecturer and later a tutor. In 1977 he went to the University of Bristol as Professor of Applied Mathematics . From 1980 he was Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge and again a Fellow of Trinity College. From 1992 to 1999 he was visiting professor at the École polytechnique and from 2001 to 2003 he was Blaise Pascal Professor at the École normal supérieure in Paris . From 1996 to 2001 he was Director of the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, succeeding Michael Atiyah , and is now a Senior Fellow there.

He deals with hydrodynamics, especially magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence. According to him, Moffattwirbel (1964) named.

He is a member of the Royal Society (1986), whose Hughes Medal he received in 2005, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1987), since 1998 the French and since 1991 Dutch Academy of Sciences , the Academia Europaea and since 2001 the Accademia dei Lincei . In 2005 he received the Senior Whitehead Prize . He is an officer in the Palmes Academiques. In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 2008 a member of the National Academy of Sciences . In 2009 he received the David Crighton Medal and in 2018 the hydrodynamics award of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

• Magnetic Field Generation in Electrically Conducting Fluids , Cambridge University Press 1978

Web links

• Homepage at the Isaac Newton Institute
• Curriculum Vitae (PDF; 133 kB)
• Literature by and about Keith Moffatt in the WorldCat bibliographic database