Michael Proctor (academic)

Michael Proctor
Born
Michael Richard Edward Proctor

(1950-09-19) 19 September 1950 (age 74)
Bournemouth
NationalityBritish
EducationShrewsbury School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge (MMath, PhD)
ThesisNon-linear mean field dynamo models and related topics (1975)
Doctoral advisorKeith Moffatt[1]
Websitewww.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/fellows/michael-proctor Edit this at Wikidata

Michael Richard Edward Proctor FRS FIMA FRAS (born 19 September 1950)[2] is a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He is Professor of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge and, since his election in 2013, the Provost of King's College, Cambridge and school governor at Eton College.[3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ Michael Proctor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Anon (2017). "Proctor, Prof. Michael Richard Edward". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U151348. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Our Governing Body". etoncollege.com.
  4. ^ "Michael Richard Edward PROCTOR". People of Today. Debrett's. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Michael Proctor ScD FRS FIMA". Personal website. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  6. ^ Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 11 September 2018 (video)