Lighthill report Lighthill's equation Lighthill's eighth power law Lighthill mechanism Aeroacoustics Fluid dynamics
Awards
Timoshenko Medal (1963) Royal Medal (1964) Elliott Cresson Medal (1975) Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1977) IMA Gold Medal (1982) Otto Laporte Award (1984) Copley Medal (1998)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics, Acoustics
Institutions
University of Manchester University College London University of Cambridge Imperial College London
Doctoral advisor
Sydney Goldstein[1]
Doctoral students
Gerald B. Whitham[1]
Other notable students
Steve Furber[2]
Sir Michael James LighthillFRS FRAeS[3] (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics[4][1][5][6][7] and for writing the Lighthill report, which pessimistically stated that "In no part of the field (of AI) have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised", contributing to the gloomy climate of AI winter.[8]
^ abcJames Lighthill at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^"Oral History of Steve Furber, Computer History Museum Fellow" (PDF). computerhistory.org.
^Pedley, Tim J. (2001). "Sir (Michael) James Lighthill. 23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998: Elected F.R.S. 1953". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 47: 333–356. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2001.0019. S2CID 73188965.
^O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "James Lighthill", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
^"The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68885. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^"Engines of Ingenuity No. 2250: Sir Michael James Lighthill by John H. Lienhard". Retrieved 28 July 2011.
^Pedley, T. J. (2001). "James Lighthill and his contributions to fluid mechanics". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 33: 1–41. Bibcode:2001AnRFM..33....1P. doi:10.1146/annurev.fluid.33.1.1.
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