Education
Born in South Africa, Weiss studied at Hilton College, Natal, Rugby School and, Cambridge, and has been a fellow of Clare College since 1965.
Born in South Africa, Weiss studied at Hilton College, Natal, Rugby School and, Cambridge, and has been a fellow of Clare College since 1965.
He is currently Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. In 1987 he became Professor of Mathematical Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. Weiss has published extensively in the field of mathematical astrophysics, specialising in solar and stellar magnetic fields, astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems
In 1966 he was the first to demonstrate and describe the process of "flux expulsion" by which a conducting fluid undergoing rotating motion acts to expel the magnetic flux from the region of motion, a process now known to occur in the photosphere of the Sun and other stars.
Royal Society.
