Leslie Howarth

Leslie Howarth (born May 23, 1911 in Bacup, Lancashire, † September 22, 2001) was a British mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics and aerodynamics.

Howarth studied Sydney Goldstein at the University of Manchester and then at the University of Cambridge (Caius and Gonville College) with a bachelor's degree in 1933 and a doctorate at Goldstein in 1936. Afterwards, he was a lecturer at King's College, Cambridge. In 1937/38 he was with Theodore of Kármán at Caltech. In the Second World War he worked first in ballistics and from 1942 on the Armament Research Department. After the war, he was a lecturer at St. John's College, Cambridge (where Abdus Salam was one of his students), and from 1949 Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol. In 1964 he became Henry Overton Wills Professor and Head of the Mathematics Faculty. From 1957 to 1960 he was dean of the Faculty of Science. He was emeritus in 1976.

He dealt especially with boundary layer theory. A work with Karman in 1938 is known about isotropic turbulence in connection with G. I. Taylor.

In 1935 he received the Smith Prize and in 1951 the Adams Prize. In 1950 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1955 he became OBE.

In 1934 he married Eva Priestley, with whom he had two sons.

Keith Stewartson is one of his doctoral students. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Single-level Edit source text Standard data (person): LCCN: no2003107791 | VIAF: 24299127 | Wikipedia People Search

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