Robert Miura

Robert Mitsuru Miura (born September 12, 1938 in Selma , California - † November 25, 2018 ) was an American applied mathematician and biophysicist.

Miura studied mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley (master’s degree 1962), then studied aircraft construction in particular at Princeton University (master’s degree 1964), where he received his doctorate in 1966 on kinetic gas theory ( An Asymptotic Theory for Linearized Near-Continuum Flow Problems ). He was at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory from 1965. There he worked with Martin Kruskal , Clifford Gardner and John Greene on the inverse scattering transformation in nonlinear wave equations with soliton solutions , for which he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize in 2006 (with his colleagues). In 1967/68 he was with Harold Grad at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University , where he also worked on plasma physics. From 1968 to 1971 he was at New York University , then at Vanderbilt University and from 1975 professor at the University of British Columbia . There he turned to mathematical biophysics, especially the modeling of the excitation of nerve cells. From 2001 he was Professor of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology , where he was also chairman of the mathematics faculty.

In 1980 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1995), the American Mathematical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005). He was co-editor of "Analysis and Applications".

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SURNAME	Miura, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Miura, Robert Mitsuru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and biophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Selma , California
DATE OF DEATH	November 25, 2018