James Lighthill

Sir
James Lighthill
Michael James Lighthill
Born
Michael James Lighthill

(1924-01-23)23 January 1924
Paris, France
Died17 July 1998(1998-07-17) (aged 74)
NationalityBritish
EducationWinchester College
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forLighthill report
Lighthill's equation
Lighthill's eighth power law
Lighthill mechanism
Aeroacoustics
Fluid dynamics
AwardsTimoshenko Medal (1963)
Royal Medal (1964)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1975)
Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1977)
IMA Gold Medal (1982)
Otto Laporte Award (1984)
Copley Medal (1998)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics,
Acoustics
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
University College London
University of Cambridge
Imperial College London
Doctoral advisorSydney Goldstein[1]
Doctoral studentsGerald B. Whitham[1]
Other notable studentsSteve Furber[2]

Sir Michael James Lighthill FRS FRAeS[3] (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics[4][1][5][6][7] and for writing the Lighthill report, which pessimistically stated that "In no part of the field (of AI) have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised", contributing to the gloomy climate of AI winter.[8]

  1. ^ a b c James Lighthill at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Oral History of Steve Furber, Computer History Museum Fellow" (PDF). computerhistory.org.
  3. ^ Pedley, Tim J. (2001). "Sir (Michael) James Lighthill. 23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998: Elected F.R.S. 1953". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 47: 333–356. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2001.0019. S2CID 73188965.
  4. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "James Lighthill", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  5. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68885. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ "Engines of Ingenuity No. 2250: Sir Michael James Lighthill by John H. Lienhard". Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  7. ^ Pedley, T. J. (2001). "James Lighthill and his contributions to fluid mechanics". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 33: 1–41. Bibcode:2001AnRFM..33....1P. doi:10.1146/annurev.fluid.33.1.1.
  8. ^ Lighthill Papers at University College London