Nationality United Kingdom | Name Brooke Benjamin | |
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Born 15 April 1929
Wallasey, England ( 1929-04-15 ) Died 16 August 1995(1995-08-16) (aged 66)
Oxford, England Fields Fluid dynamics
Mathematical analysis Institutions University of Cambridge
University of Essex
University of Oxford Alma mater University of Liverpool
Yale University
University of Cambridge Doctoral students Howell Peregrine (Cambridge) Bill Pritchard (Cambridge) Grant Keady (Cambridge) John Dwyer (Essex) Deb Bose (Essex) Alan Champneys (Oxford) James Graham-Eagle (Oxford) Mark Groves (Oxford) Ming Li (Oxford) John Maddocks (Oxford)
Joseph Pitt-Francis (Oxford) | ||
Thomas Brooke Benjamin, FRS (15 April 1929 – 16 August 1995) was an English mathematical physicist and mathematician, best known for his work in mathematical analysis and fluid mechanics, especially in applications of nonlinear differential equations. Benjamin was awarded a doctorate degree at King's College, Cambridge in 1955.
From 1979 until his death in 1995 he was Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, and a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford.
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