Nigel Weiss

Nigel Oscar Weiss
Born	16 December 1936 (1936-12-16) (age 74) South Africa
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Edward Bullard
Doctoral students	Wayne Arter Andrew Bernoff Sean Blanchflower John Edwards Murray Frazer David Galloway Paul Glendinning David Hughes Christopher Jones Vivien Kirk Daniel Moore Gordon Ogilvie Richard Peckover Alastair Rucklidge Michael Tildesley Steven Tobias Darryl Veitch Paul Watson
Known for	flux expulsion
Notable awards	Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

Nigel Oscar Weiss FRS (born South Africa, 16 December 1936) is an astronomer and mathematician, and leader in the field of astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge.^[1]

Career

Born in South Africa, Prof. Weiss studied at Hilton College, Natal, Rugby School and Clare College, Cambridge, and has been a fellow of Clare College since 1965. In 1987 he became Professor of Mathematical Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992.^[2]

Between 2000 and 2002 he was President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in 2007 was awarded the Gold Medal, the society's highest award.^[1]

Research

Prof. 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.^[1]

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.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Nigel Weiss' home page". DAMTP. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/now/. 
2. ^ Who's Who, A & C Black
3. ^ N. O. Weiss (1966). "The expulsion of magnetic flux by eddies". Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A 293: 310. 

External links

• Nigel Weiss's departmental page
• Nigel Weiss at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Name	Weiss, Nigel Oscar
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Date of birth	16 December 1936
Place of birth	South Africa
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