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Sydney Goldstein (3 December 1903, Kingston-upon-Hull - 22 January 1989, Harvard) was a British mathematician who became Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics at Harvard University.
[edit] Education
[edit] Career
- Rockefeller Research Fellow, University of Göttingen, 1928-29.
- Lecturer in Mathematics, Manchester University, 1929-31
- Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 1931-45; Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1929-32, 1933-45 (Honorary Fellow, 1965)
- Leverhulme Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1938-39
- Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics, Manchester University, 1945-50
- Professor of Applied Mathematics, 1950-55; and Chairman of the Aeronautical Engineering Department, 1950-54, Technion, Haifa, Israel, and Vice-President of the Technion, 1951-54 (Honorary Fellow, 1971)
- Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics at Harvard, 1954-68 then Professor Emeritus
[edit] Other positions and honours
- Adams Prize, 1935
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 1937
- Worked at the Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory, 1939-45
- Chairman, Aeronautical Research Council, 1946-49
- Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Letters (Section for Sciences), 1950
- Foreign Member, Finnish Scientific Society (Section for maths and physics), 1975
[edit] Publications
- (ed) Modern Developments in Fluid Dynamics, 1938
- Lectures on Fluid Mechanics, 1960
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