Peter Killworth
| Peter Killworth | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Peter D. Killworth 27 March 1946 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 28 January 2008 (aged 61) Southampton, England |
| Cause of death | motor neurone disease |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
Trinity College, Cambridge (1969) Trinity College, Cambridge (1972) PhD |
| Occupation | Scientist, writer, pioneering author, professor |
| Known for |
Oceanography Social Network theory |
Professor Peter D. Killworth (27 March 1946 – 28 January 2008) was an English scientist known for both his work on oceanography and the study of social networks. A prolific writer, he published more than 160 scientific papers over the course of his career. He was also known for his work as a pioneering author of text interactive fiction games during the early 1980s.
Peter Killworth died in 2008 from motor neurone disease.
The major part of Peter Killworth's career was spent as an oceanographer, using applied mathematics to understand ocean dynamics. He had varied interests across the whole of physical oceanography, including the study of ice, polynyas, Rossby waves, instabilities and eddies. He completed his doctorate in Numerical studies in Dynamical Oceanography at Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1972. After a year conducting research in California, he returned to Cambridge to work with his former PhD supervisor, Adrian Gill and spent the next twelve years at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, the latter part of this being spent as a Research Fellow of Clare Hall College. He maintained close ties to the US during this period, including teaching at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
In 1985 he moved to Oxford to join the Robert Hooke Institute, also serving as a Research Fellow of Wolfson College, and later as a Fellow of St Cross College. In Oxford he "built and led a research team at the forefront of numerical ocean modelling". With the closure of the Institute, by then the NERC Oceanography Unit, he moved to Southampton in 1995 to build up a team at the Southampton Oceanography Centre, now the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, focusing on ocean process modelling. During these years he established the journal Ocean Modelling, which rapidly became one of the leading oceanographic journals, achieving the highest impact factor of any physical oceanographic journal in 2005.
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