Ernie Tuck

Ernie Tuck
Born(1939-06-01)1 June 1939
Died11 March 2009(2009-03-11) (aged 69)
Nationality Australian
Alma materUniversity of Adelaide
Cambridge University
Known forTuck's incompressibility function
Tuck Fellowship[1]
Ship Motion Program
AwardsGeorg Weinblum Lectureship (1990)
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal (1999)
ANZIAM Medal (1999)
Scientific career
FieldsApplied mathematics
InstitutionsThe University of Adelaide
Doctoral advisorFritz Ursell

Professor Ernest Oliver (Ernie) Tuck was an Australian applied mathematician, notable for his sustained work in ship hydrodynamics, and for Tuck's incompressibility function.[2]

  1. ^ "The Tuck Fellowship". IWWWFB. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  2. ^ M.V. Berry and P. Shukla, "Tuck's incompressibility function: statistics for zeta zeros and eigenvalues", Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 41 (2008) 385202