Background
The youngest of three children, Keith Stewartson was born to an English baker in 1925.
mathematician university professor
The youngest of three children, Keith Stewartson was born to an English baker in 1925.
He was raised in Billingham, County Durham, where he attended Stockton Secondary School, and went to Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge in 1942. During his time there he studied compressible fluid flow problems.
After graduation, with the Second World War still on-going, Stewartson began employment with the Ministry of Aircraft Production. He resumed research under the guidance of Leslie Howarth on boundary layer theory. His research led to his first publication, "Correlated incompressible and compressible boundary layers", which was published by the Royal Society in 1949.
He received his doctorate the same year and became a lecturer at Bristol University in 1950.
In 1953 he went to the United States to become a lecturer at the California Institute of Technology for a year before returning to Bristol University. In 1958 he was awarded a chair at the University of Durham.
After finding Durham University too conservative, he moved to University College, London in 1964. In his time there, he studied rotating fluid flows, shear layers, magnetohydrodynamics, triple-deck theory, and Reynolds number.
In his career he authored 186 papers.
Royal Society.