Keith Moffatt
| Keith Moffatt | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 April 1935 Edinburgh |
| Other names | Henry Keith Moffatt |
| Residence | Cambridge |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Fields | magnetohydrodynamics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater |
University of Edinburgh University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | George Batchelor |
| Doctoral students | Thomas Felici Andrew Gilbert Konrad Bajer Susan Nightingale Michael Proctor Henrik Rasmussen Renzo Ricca Glyn Roberts Alfred Sneyd Andrew Soward Jüri Toomre Michal Branicki |
| Notable awards |
Smith's Prize (1960) Senior Whitehead Prize (2005) Hughes Medal (2005) Fellow of the Royal Society (1986) |
Henry Keith Moffatt, FRS, FRSE (born 12 April 1935) is a Scottish applied mathematician with principal research interests in the field of fluid dynamics. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1980 to 2002.
Moffatt's main research interests lie in fluid dynamics, particularly magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence.
His Ph.D. thesis was on the subject of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, and he has published more than 200 papers.
Moffatt was educated in Edinburgh and Cambridge. He attended George Watson's College, then read Mathematical Sciences at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1957. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Mathematics and was a Wrangler in 1959. He was awarded a Smith's Prize in 1960 while preparing his Ph.D., on the subject of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, which he completed in 1962.
After completing his Ph.D., Moffatt joined the staff of the Mathematics Faculty in Cambridge as an Assistant Lecturer and became a Fellow of Trinity College. He was appointed a Lecturer in 1964, and held the office of Tutor, then Senior Tutor, at Trinity between 1970 and 1976.
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