Background
Benjamin, Thomas Brooke was born on April 15, 1929 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England. Son of Thomas Joseph and Ethel Mary (Brooke) Benjamin.
Benjamin, Thomas Brooke was born on April 15, 1929 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England. Son of Thomas Joseph and Ethel Mary (Brooke) Benjamin.
Bachelor Engineering, Liverpool (England) University, 1950. Master Engineering, Yale University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge (England) University, 1955.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Bath University, England, 1989. Doctor of Science (honorary), Brunel University, England, 1991. Doctor of Science (honorary), Liverpool University, England, 1993.
Assistant Director of Research, University of Cambridge 1958-1967, Reader in Hydrodynamics 1967-1970. Professor, of Math, and Director, Fluid Mechanics Research Institute, Essex University 1970-1978. Sedleian Professor, of Natural Philosophy, and Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford since 1979.
Visiting Professor University of Wisconsin, United States of America 1980-1981, of Houston, United States of America 1985, of California, Berkeley 1986. Adjunct Professor, Penn State University since 1988. Chairman Mathematics Committee, S.R.C. 1975-1978, National Conference of University Profs. since 1989.
Jt. Royal Society Institute of Maths. Education Committee 1979-1985.
Fellow Royal Society London (vice president 1990-1991), Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (vice president 1976-1978), Royal Society Art, French Academy of Sciences (foreign member). Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers (honorary).
Married 1st Helen Gilda-Marie Rakower Ginsburg in 1956 (divorced in 1974), one son two daughter. Married 2nd Natalia Marie-Therese Court in 1978, one daughter.