Background
LIGHTHILL, James was born on January 23, 1924 in Paris, France. Son of Ernest B. and Marjorie (nee Holmes) Lighthill.
college provost and professor of mathematics
LIGHTHILL, James was born on January 23, 1924 in Paris, France. Son of Ernest B. and Marjorie (nee Holmes) Lighthill.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Lecturer, Manchester University 1946-1950, Beyer Professor, of Applied Mathematics 1950-1959; Director Royal Aircraft Establishment 1959-1964: Royal Society Research Professor, Imperial College, London 69. Physical Secretary Royal Society 1965-1969.
Lucasian Professor, of Mathematics, University of Cambridge 1969-1979.
Provost, University College London 1979-1989, Honorary Research Fellow, Mathematics Department since 1989.
President Institute Commission, on Mathematical Instruction 74, Institute Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1984-1988.
Advisory Council on Research and Development 1978-1981. American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, A.I.A.A., United States National Academy, of Sciences and National Academy, of Engineering, Academy, des Sciences (France), Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen.
Married Nancy A. Dumaresq in 1945.