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Keith Moffatt | |
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Born | Edinburgh, Scotland | 12 April 1935
Other names | Henry Keith Moffatt |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh University of Cambridge |
Known for | Moffatt eddies Helicity Non-axisymmetric Burgers vortices |
Awards | Smith's Prize (1960) Senior Whitehead Prize (2005) Hughes Medal (2005) Fellow of the Royal Society (1986) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | magnetohydrodynamics |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Thesis | Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | George Batchelor |
Doctoral students | Michael Proctor Renzo Ricca Andrew Soward |
Henry Keith Moffatt, FRS FRSE (born 12 April 1935) is a British mathematician with research interests in the field of fluid dynamics, particularly magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1980 to 2002.