Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Manchester in 1953 under the direction of Sir James Lighthill. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from University of Manchester in 1953.
mathematician university professor
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Manchester in 1953 under the direction of Sir James Lighthill. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from University of Manchester in 1953.
He is known for his work in fluid dynamics and waves. Whitham was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He was a Faculty Member in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 1959–1962.
He left Massachusetts Institute of Technology to join California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California where he was instrumental in setting up the applied mathematics program in 1962.
Whitham is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1959. In 1965, Whitham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Whitham received the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1980, jointly awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) and the American Mathematical Society (American Mathematical Society). This prize was awarded "for an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense." Whitham was honored "for his broad contributions to the understanding of fluid dynamical phenomena and his innovative contributions to the methodology through which that understanding can be constructed".
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Royal Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
