Keith Moffatt

Keith Moffatt (also Henry Keith Moffatt), (* 12 April 1935 in Edinburgh) is a British mathematical physicist.

Moffat studied at the University of Edinburgh (bachelor's degree in 1957), and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the Smith Prize in 1960 and promoted magnetohydrodynamic turbulence at George Keith Batchelor in 1962. In 1961 he became Fellow of Trinity College and Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1964 he became a lecturer and later tutor. In 1977, he joined the University of Bristol as Professor of Applied Mathematics. From 1980 he was Professor of Mathematical Physics in Cambridge and again Fellow of Trinity College. From 1992 to 1999 he was a guest professor at the École polytechnique and from 2001 to 2003 he was a professor at the École normal supérieure in Paris. From 1996 to 2001, he was the director of the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, succeeding Michael Atiyah, and today he is a Senior Fellow.

He is concerned with hydrodynamics, especially magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence. According to him, Moffattwirbel (1964) are named. He is a member of the Royal Society (1986), whose Hughes Medal he received in 2005, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1987), the French Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea since 1991 and the Accademia dei since 2001 Lincei. In 2005, he received the Senior Whitehead Prize. He is an officer of the Palmes Academiques. In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2009, he received the David Crighton Medal. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (person): GND: 139626239 (PICA, AKS) | LCCN: n85008218 VIAF: 101345805 | Wikipedia People Search

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