M. S. Longuet-Higgins
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8 December 1925 Lenham, England |
| Died | 26 February 2016 (aged 90) Cambridge, England |
| Residence | United States, England |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
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Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins FRS (December 8, 1925 – February 26, 2016) was a mathematician and oceanographer at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Cambridge University, England and Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego, USA. He was the younger brother of H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins.
Longuet-Higgins introduced the theory of the origin of microseisms and is the inventor of "rhombo blocks", a mathematical toy consisting of blocks whose faces are rhombuses.
Michael S. Longuet-Higgins was a scientist and mathematician, who discovered and mathematically described many of the theoretical and physical models of ocean waves, currents and natural physical phenomena. He left a legacy of scientific and mathematical publications for the world of oceanography and mathematics, useful for describing the effects of the oceans on climate, sediment and water transport, structural engineering and natural phenomenon such as microseisms, sonoluminescence and underwater sound.
Educated at The Pilgrims' School, Winchester, and Winchester College from 1937 to 1941 together with Freeman Dyson, his brother Christopher, and James Lighthill from 1937 to 1943, he won a scholarship in mathematics at the age of 17 to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he qualified after just two years for a BA in mathematics in 1945. He was awarded a PhD in geophysics in 1951. From 1969 to 1989 he served as a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Cambridge.
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