Background
LONGUET-HIGGINS, Michael was born on December 8, 1925 in Lenham, Kent. Son of the late Henry H. L. LonguetHiggins and Albinia Cecil Bazeley.
LONGUET-HIGGINS, Michael was born on December 8, 1925 in Lenham, Kent. Son of the late Henry H. L. LonguetHiggins and Albinia Cecil Bazeley.
Bachelor, U. Cambridge, 1945; Master of Arts, U. Cambridge, 1946; Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics, U. Cambridge, 1951.
Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge 1951-1955, Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Scripps Institute, Louisiana.Jolla, 52. Research Scientist, National Institute of Oceanography 1954-1967. Visiting Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1958.
Visiting Professor Institute of Geophysics, University of California 1961-1962.
Visiting Professor ITniv. of Adelaide 1963-1964. Professor, of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis 1967-1969.
Royal Society Research Professor, Cambridge University (joint appointment with Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) 1969-1989. Senior Research Physicist, Louisiana Jolla Institute since 1988.
Foreign Association North.A.S. since 1979.
Honorary Doctor of Laws (Glasgow) 1979. Honorary Doctorate.Tech. (Technology University of Denmark) 1979. Fellow. Royal Society 1963, Sverdrup.
Fellow American Geophysics Union, Royal Society London. Member National Academy of Engineering (foreign associate), Institute Non-Linear Science.
Married Joan R. Tattersall in 1958.