Sir James Lighthill and modern fluid mechanics: a memorial tribute

Sir James Lighthill and modern fluid mechanics: A memorial tribute

This memorial tribute commemorates Sir James Lighthill the man and the mathematical scientist. A brief biographical information is presented with my personal reminiscences. His major contributions to fluid mechanics with special reference to nonlinear dispersive waves are discussed. By any standards, his legacy of research and publications of six books and one hundred fifty papers will remain f...

Microbiological 0 uid mechanics : a tribute to Sir

The choice of title of this presentation comes from two papers that James Lighthill published in the issue of Journal of Engineering Mathematics commemorating H. A. Lorentz’s famous 1896 paper on 0uid mechanics [1]. This paper will discuss Lighthill’s signi)cant contribution to microbiological 0uid mechanics, both through his own work and his postgraduate and postdoctoral students, of which thi...

Fred Sanger: a memorial tribute.

Thoroughly Modern: Sir James Fitzjames Stephen on Criminal Responsibility

Sir Walter James Buchanan