Sydney Goldstein

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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.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Other positions and honours 4 Publications 5 References

[edit] Education

• Bede Collegiate School, Sunderland
• University of Leeds (Honorary Fellow, 1973)
• St. John's College, Cambridge: Mathematical Tripos, 1925; Smith's Prize, 1927; PhD, 1928

[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

[edit] References

• Who was Who

Preceded by Douglas Hartree

Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics at University of Manchester 1945–1950

Succeeded by James Lighthill