Background
Drazin, Philip was born on May 25, 1934 in London. Son of Isaac and Leah Drazin.
Drazin, Philip was born on May 25, 1934 in London. Son of Isaac and Leah Drazin.
Bachelor, Cambridge (England) University, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge (England) University, 1958. Master of Arts, Cambridge (England) University, 1961.
He was awarded the Smith"s Prize in 1957. After leaving Cambridge, he spent two years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to the University of Bristol, where he stayed and became a Professor until retiring in 1999. After retiring, he lectured at the University of Oxford and the University of Bath until his death in 2002.
Drazin worked on hydrodynamic stability and the transition to turbulence.
His 1974 paper On a model of instability of a slowly-varying flow introduced the concept of a global mode solution to a system of partial differential equations such as the Navier-Stokes equations. He also worked on solitons.
In 1998 he was awarded the Symons Gold Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Fellow Royal Meteorological Society United Kingdom (member council 1974-1977).
Married Judith Tremain Holmes, April 19, 1965. Children: Susannah Clare, Adam Michael.