Keith Moffatt

Keith Moffatt ( Henry Keith Moffatt ), ( born April 12, 1935 in Edinburgh ) is a British mathematical physicist.

Moffat studied at the University of Edinburgh ( BA 1957) and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1960 he won the Smith Prize and in 1962 received his doctorate at George Keith Batchelor magneto- hydrodynamic turbulence. In 1961 he became a Fellow of Trinity College and Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1964 he became a lecturer and later tutor. In 1977 he went as Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol. From 1980 he was Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College again. 1992 to 1999 he was a visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique and 2001 to 2003 he was Blaise Pascal Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. 1996 to 2001 he was Director of the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, succeeding Michael Atiyah, and today he is a senior fellow.

He deals with hydrodynamics, especially magneto hydrodynamics and theory of turbulence. According to him Moffattwirbel (1964 ) are named.

He is a member of the Royal Society (1986 ), the Hughes Medal he received in 2005, the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( 1987), since 1998, the French and Dutch since 1991 Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea and the Accademia dei Lincei since 2001. In 2005 he was awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize. He is an officer of the Academic Palms. In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Writings

• Magnetic Field Generation in Electrically Conducting fluids, Cambridge University Press 1978