Louis Norberg Howard

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Louis Norberg Howard (born March 12, 1929 in Chicago , Illinois , † June 28, 2015 ) was an American applied mathematician who studied hydrodynamics .

Howard studied at Swarthmore College with a bachelor's degree in 1950 and at Princeton University with a master's degree in 1952 and a doctorate in mathematical physics with Donald Spencer in 1953 (Constant Speed ​​Flows). He was then a Higgins Lecturer in Mathematics at Princeton and in 1955 Assistant Professor and later Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1981 he became a professor at Florida State University (McKenzie Professor), where he retired in 1997.

He dealt with hydrodynamics, particularly turbulent convection on a large scale, hydrodynamics of Hele-Shaw cells , the salt finger phenomenon in seawater and mathematical modeling in hydrodynamics.

In 1997 he received the American Physical Society's hydrodynamics award . He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1965), and the National Academy of Sciences . In 1961 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and from 1962 a Sloan Research Fellow .

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  1. ^ Louis Norberg Howard, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
  2. ↑ Career data based on American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  3. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Howard, Louis Norberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2015