61. University Of Dundee : External Relations : Press Office sir james Black is the first recipient in the University s history of an Honorary Currently Professor of Climate Modelling and Director of the lighthill http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pressreleases/prmay05/honorarydegrees.html

Text only Search All Dundee Courses DUSA External Relations Alumni Relations Press Office Events Office ... About Dundee 4 May 2005 University of Dundee honorary degrees The University of Dundee will confer honorary degrees on eight outstanding individuals at the 2005 summer graduation ceremonies including two Nobel prize-winning scientists, a comedian, a pioneer in the struggle against AIDS in Africa, a leading psychologist, the man who coined the term 'lateral thinking', a founder of clinical pharmacology and a leading climate expert. Among those to be honoured are Scotland's most distinguished living scientist, Sir James Black, comedian and former Rector of the University, Fred MacAulay and, Noerine Kaleeba, founder of The Aids Support Organisation in Uganda. University Principal Sir Alan Langlands said, "We are honoured to be able to recognise the immense and distinctive contributions of eight extremely gifted and dedicated individuals whose work has benefited others, in many cases extending lives and life quality. It gives me particular personal pleasure to be able to honour the University’s own Chancellor and Scotland’s most distinguished living scientist, Sir James Black by conferring on him, for the first time in the University’s history, the honorary degree of Doctor of Science." Sir James Black is the first recipient in the University's history of an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, awarded as a special mark of respect to the University's Chancellor, who is now in his 81st year. Sir James' contribution to science was recognised at the highest level in 1988 when he was awarded (jointly) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or medicine, for discoveries of important principles for drug treatment which led to the development of new drugs for the treatment of a range of disorders including heart conditions and ulcers. In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Merit by HM The Queen - the highest honour which can be bestowed on an individual personally by The Queen. Sir James has been Chancellor for 12 years, during which time he has served the University with commitment, wisdom, grace and distinction.

62. Mechanics Colloquia 1 lighthill, sir james 1979 Waves and hydrodynamic loading. Proc. 2nd Int.Conf. on the Behavoiur of Offshore Structures. Vol 1 pp 140. http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/mechanics/seminars/abstracts/rainey.shtml

Department of Engineering University of Cambridge Engineering Department MMD Mechanics Colloquia ... Mechanics Colloquia An occasional cross-disciplinary seminar series Information and directions for visitors Abstracts Hydrodynamics of slender bodies: applications in offshore engineering Dr R.C.T. Rainey W.S. Atkins Offshore structures contain many slender tubular members, subject to wave loads. The traditional empirical formula for the wave load is "Morison's equation", which has an inertial term proportional to the water acceleration, and a drag term proportional to the square of the water velocity. Both have been refined in recent years, encouraged, at least in part, by the late Sir James Lighthill [1]. The inertial term describes the load in an idealised wakeless flow, and so may be calculated exactly using the classical techniques of slender body theory [2]. This leads [3,4] to an additional load proportional to the velocity gradient, and to point loads at member ends and surface intersections. These are important, for example, in the phenomenon of "ringing" [5], which is a burst of structural vibration produced by the crests of very steep waves. The drag term describes the effect of the wake, and has also been refined, for example to model the effects of vortex shedding. An interesting recent example is the case of a rotating drillstring, in which it is also necessary to model the steady cross-flow "Magnus" force, which can lead to a whirling instability.

63. Towards More Balanced Inquiry And Response In Psychological Health The 1986 apology came through the late sir james lighthill, What sir jameslighthill says in the above apology is very relevant to our view of the http://www.goodshare.org/restore.htm

Towards More Balanced Inquiry and Response in Psychological Health Victoria, May 3, 2002 http://www.goodshare.org/restore.htm The following is directed to those suffering from 'mental illness' and those in the 'healing professions' who may have interest in helping to develop and to participate in a new 'healing' approach that combines the wisdom of native 'healing' traditions with new scientific findings on the fundamentals of living systems that have not yet been assimilated into mainstream psychiatry. This new approach orients to the cultivating and sustaining of psychological health through a coordinated program of self-directed 'healing circle' group therapy and neurofeedback ( N.B. -'Neurofeedback' is training that enables one to get in touch with sub-aware neural responses that one has involuntarily 'conditioned' to 'hold on to' anxious, depressive or obsessive thoughts, and to 'untrain' them so that they will 'let go' and stop 'locking-themselves-in'. Neurofeedback equipment presents the patient's own neural waves to them on a computer screen in front of them and facilitates the patient's interacting with their own thought waves using audio-visual signalling, often in the form of playing games like pacman etc. where certain types of mind-movements (thought-wave patterns) are 'reflected back' to the patient in terms of the audio-visual responses of the neurofeedback equipment. This type of interaction with one's own thought waves allows interaction with thought flows that have developed 'sub-awarely' and that are not accessible to normal past, present and future 'event' based thinking.)

64. World Scientific edited by sir james lighthill; Dialogues on Modern Physics by Mendel Sachs;Dual Resonance Models and Superstrings by PH Frampton; Dynamics of Negative Ions http://www.worldscibooks.com/offers.shtml

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65. Transactions Of The Wessex Institute sir james lighthill and modern fluid mechanics A memorial tri Development ofa numerical model to simulate wave induced fl. http://library.witpress.com/pages/listpapers.asp?q_bid=108

66. Fluid Mechanics Of Ciliary Propulsion By John Blake Dedicated to the memory of sir james lighthill John Blake School of Mathematicsand Statistics The University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, http://www.ima.umn.edu/biology/wkshp_abstracts/blake1.html

Search Contact Information Program Registration Postdoc/Membership Application Program Feedback ... Join our Mailing Lists Talk abstract: FLUID MECHANICS OF CILIARY PROPULSION Dedicated to the memory of Sir James Lighthill John Blake School of Mathematics and Statistics The University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K. Cilia have many functions in the animal kingdom, some of these being cleansing, feeding, excretion, locomotion and reproduction. They occur in all phyla of the animal kingdom with the possible exception of the class Nematoda . This lecture will discuss the development of fluid mechanical models and theories that help with our understanding and interpretation of locomotion of protozoa, mucous transport in the lung, filter feeding in bivalve molluscs and gamete transport. The theoretical development requires obtaining the fundamental singularities and image systems pertinent to the system under study, the physical interpretation of them and their constructive use to model the flow fields generated by fields of cilia. Examples will also be given where basic phenomena are isolated and studied in greater detail, such as the motion of a slender body close to, and penetrating, the interface between two viscous fluids.

67. IN BRIEF sir james lighthill, brilliant mathematician who foresaw the use of communicationssatellites and space shuttles, has died aged 74. http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw35/inbrief35.html

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68. Archives - The IEE Ernest Orlando, AM PhD    FM 1952 .46 LEETE, Mr. Ernest       HF1954 .47 lighthill, sir james, FRS      HF 1984  Recorded 17 May 1985. http://www.iee.org/TheIEE/Research/Archives/FindingAids/Films/index.cfm

@import "/styles/dropdown.css"; Login or Register Shop Help A-Z ... Home Search: The IEE About the IEE Membership Business Partners ... Contacts Archives Index to IEE Films IEE films are of lectures given by either a Faraday Medalist (FM) of Honorary Fellow (HF):  16mm Films .1  ADAMS, Dr. John Bertram, MA DSc FRS    FM 1977  Outsize can .2  AIGRAIN, Pierre R.R.       HF 1976 .3  ANGWIN, Col. Sir Stanley, KBE DSC MC TD DSc(Eng)  FM 1953 HF 1956 .4  APPLETON, Sir Edward, GBE KCB MA DSc LLD FRS  FM 1946 HF 1952  Recorded 1962. VHS and U-Matic video copies available. .5  ASH, Prof. Eric Albert, FRS PhD      FM 1980  Recorded 8 Nov. 1978. Outsize can. .6  BARLOW, Prof. Harold E. Monteagle, FRS, FIMechE Hon. FIERE FM 1967               PhD (Sc)  Recorded 9 Aug. 1972 .7  BARNETT, Sir Ben Lewis, KBE CB MC MA    HF 1973  Outsize can .8  BEDFORD, Mr. Leslie Herbert, CBE MA DSc FIERE   FM 1968 .9  BISHOP, Sir Harold CBE BSc(Eng) FCGI CEng    HF 1966  Recorded 16 Oct. 1972 .10  BONDI, Prof. Sir Herman, KCB FRAS FRS    HF 1979

69. To Biographies - The IEE FA Cortez Leigh. sir james lighthill. james Bowman Lindsay. Oliver Lodge.Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace. Francis Lydall. Arnold Lynch. Albert John Lynch http://www.iee.org/TheIEE/Research/Archives/FindingAids/Biographies/index.cfm

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70. IngentaConnect The Source Of Aerodynamic Noise The theory of Aerodynamic Noise was established by sir james lighthill in 1952.The beauty of lighthill s treatment was that he based this theory on the http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mscp/ijaa/2003/00000002/F0020003/art00004

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71. University Of Liverpool 1961 sir Michael james lighthill, DSc 1997 Lin Chingjiang, LLD 2002 ProfessorWenyi Lin, LLD 1987 Samson Lipton, MD 1928 John Edensor Littlewood, DSc http://www.liv.ac.uk/commsec/calendar/hongrads1.htm

home www.liv.ac.uk COMMITTEE SECRETARIAT Academic Secretary's Office Committee Secretariat e-Calendar Preliminary Information (Address, Dates of Terms and Semesters) Section 1 (Charter, Statutes and Ordinances 1-34) Section 2 (Programme Ordinances) Section 3 (General information, Regulations, Fees, Awards) Section 4 (Committees) Section 5 (Staff and Honorary Graduates) Feedback: commsec@liverpool.ac.uk Last reviewed 26/08/2004 The University of Liverpool e-Calendar Section 5: Honorary Graduates of the University: Degree of Doctor: Surnames A-L ( The names of graduates who are known to be deceased are printed in italics) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, LLD His Royal Highness George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, LLD Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, LLD Sir (Leslie) Patrick Abercrombie, LLD ... Sir Arthur Armitage, LLD George Armstrong, DSc Sir Richard Harold Armstrong, LLD Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby of Brandon, LLD Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall, DEng Professor Alan Astbury, DSc ... William Blair-Bell, LLD Frederick Blakemore, DVSc The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Stuart Yanworth Blanch, Baron Blanch of Bishopsthorpe, LLD

72. Research Intelligence: Home Page, Issue 4 include Britain s first aerodynamics scientist, Dr FW Lanchester, and a formerdirector of the Royal Aeronautical Society, sir james lighthill . http://www.liv.ac.uk/researchintelligence/issue4/

Issue 4 March 2000 Welcome to Research INTELLIGENCE, a quarterly newsletter from the University of Liverpool University of Liverpool excels in the 1999 Joint Research Equipment Initiative Professor awarded Royal Aeronautical Society Bronze Medal Can counting the calories combat ageing? 18th Century institutions with 21st Century concerns ... Archive Researchers publish significant results in specialist academic journals. Research INTELLIGENCE aims to communicate selected results to a wider audience, and to convey some of the excitement which researchers themselves experience. University of Liverpool excels in the 1999 Joint Research Equipment Initiative The University of Liverpool starts the new millennium with the welcome news that over 70 per cent of its applications to the Joint Research Equipment Initiative (1999) were successful - a significant advance on the 60 per cent success rate achieved the previous year. This level of JREI funding places the University in fourth position nationally, compared to sixth position in 1998. Each of these strategies has been devised to reduce burglary in a focussed area where the current level is 2-3 times the national average. The tactics adopted range from measures to improve home security (eg property marking, installation of window locks and burglar alarms), to disrupting the market for stolen goods (eg via scrutiny/surveillance of second hand goods shops, car boot sales) and targetting prolific burglars.

73. Calendar Of The University Of Essex - Former Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Emer †Professor sir Michael james lighthill, BA DSc, FRAeS FRS (1967) Professor RichardLipsey, BA MA PhD, Order of Canada, FRSC, Fellow Econometric Society http://www.essex.ac.uk/academic/docs/cal/former.shtm

dates calendar regulations committees ... course info/fees University of Essex Calendar Former Chancellors of the University Former Vice-Chancellors of the University Emeritus Professors Librarian Emeritus ... Honorary Fellows † Deceased * Conferred at Writtle College ** Conferred at South East Essex College Former Chancellors of the University The Right Honourable Lord Butler of Saffron Walden, KG CH, MA Hon DCL HonLLD DU HonLittD (1965-1982) The Right Honourable Sir Patrick Nairne, GCB MC, MA LLD DU (1983-1997) The Right Honourable Baron Nolan of Brasted, PC, MA Oxf (1997-2003) Former Vice-Chancellors of the University Sir Albert Sloman, CBE, MA DPhil DU DLitt (1962-1987) Professor Martin Harris, CBE, MA PhD LLD DU(1987-1992) Professor R J Johnston, MA PhD DU (1992-1995) Emeritus Professors DJ Barber, BSc PhD (Professor of Physics) GA Barnard, MA DSc, HonARCS FIMA (Professor of Mathematics, 1966-1977) AR Bergstrom, MCom PhD (Professor of Economics, 1970-1992)

74. School Of Mathematics And Statistics Microbiological fluid mechanics a tribute to sir james lighthill, Math Meth . sir james lighthill 192498, Math Meth. Appl. Sci., 24, 1307- 1310. http://www.res.bham.ac.uk/publications/researchpubs/2001data/mathsstats.htm

School of Mathematics and Statistics Applied Mathematics Group Articles in Academic Journals J Billingham, SJ Preece, AC King. 2001. On the initial stages of cement hydration, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 43-58. Publication: 1389. J Billingham, SJ Preece, AC King. 2001. The evolution of travelling waves from chemical clock reactions, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 367-385. Publication: 1391. J Billingham, GN Mercer. 2001. The effect of heat loss on the propagation of strongly exothermic combustion waves, Combustion Theory and Modelling, 319-342. Publication: 1392. JR Blake. 2001. Microbiological fluid mechanics: a tribute to Sir James Lighthill, Math Meth. Appl. Sci., 1469-1483. ISSN: 0170-4214. Publication: 907. JR Blake. 2001. Sir James Lighthill 1924-98, Math Meth. Appl. Sci., 1307- 1310. ISSN: 0170-4214. Publication: 919. EJ Crampin, EA Gaffney, PK Maini. 2001. Mode-doubling and tripling in reaction- diffusion patterns on growing domains: A piecewise linear model, Journal of Mathematical Biology

75. LRB | Letters From Vol. 21 No. 19 Heathcote Williams, in his review of Roger Deakin s Waterlog (LRB, 19 August),says that sir james lighthill swam around Sark in a peculiar swimming style http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/letters.html

HOME SUBSCRIBE LOGIN CONTACTS ... Subscriber registration Subscribers to the LRB currently get free access to the full content of the magazine in an online edition. If you are a subscriber and would like to register for online access click here If you are already registered you can log in from our login page If you would like further information about subscribing to the LRB click here LRB Vol. 21 No. 19 dated 30 September 1999 Letters From Vol. 21 No. 19 Cover date: 30 September 1999 < letters from previous issue letters from next issue >> Unreliable Friend From Anthony Lewis In his savage review of Anthony Sampson's Mandela: The Authorised Biography , R.W. Johnson displayed a contempt for the present Government of South Africa and a hatred of the African National Congress that may have surprised some readers ( LRB , 19 August ). It was not surprising to those familiar with Mr Johnson's writings. As an example, the Times published in December 1996 a supposed news report by Mr Johnson. He wrote that the Constitutional Court of South Africa, in finding that the country's new Constitution met the legal tests laid down for it, had 'bent the knee to the ANC leadership'. Mr Johnson added that the ANC 'has an overwhelming majority' in the Court. A week later the Times published a letter from Sydney Kentridge (now Sir Sydney), a great South African lawyer who has more recently become a leading figure at the English Bar. Of Mr Johnson's statement that the ANC had 'an overwhelming majority' in the Court, Mr Kentridge wrote: 'This is simply false.' He pointed out, among other things, that six of the 11 members of the Court had been judges of the Supreme Court of South Africa appointed by the previous, National Party Government. As for bending the knee, Mr Kentridge said: 'a less subservient court . . . would be hard to find.'

76. Directorate For Research And Academic Affairs Victor Brailovsky, sir james lighthill. Ilona Feher, George P. Schultz. Martin D.Kamen, Meir Shamgar. Helen Kimmelman (Kimmel), Frank H. Westheimer http://www.weizmann.ac.il/acadaff/Scientific_Activities/current/Academic_Affairs

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77. Squeaky-Clean Limerick Entries For July '98 The poet comments, sir james lighthill was applying his own theory to a swimaround the Channel Island of Sark last Friday when he didn t quite make it http://www.webcom.com/~erique/limerick/1998/nice798.html

The Toast Point Limerick Contest! Since 1995! Squeaky-Clean Entries from July, 1998 Few and Far Between Bluebird writes 07/31/98 Costume Party The Ku Klux Klan is the pits; A mob of low-class half-wits. They hide behind sheets Drinking beer, eating beets; I hope they get terminal zits. Professor M-G writes 07/31/98 The phrase "name will be mud" was no dud Until history buffs chewed the cud And "name's Mudd" came in vogue ... But if Mudd was no rogue Then Mudd's name, although Mudd, wasn't mud! The poet comments, "Read all about the Mudd controversy at http://civilwarreader.com/thomas/mudd.htm" Raceway writes 07/30/98 Tom Brokaw and Jennings and Rather 'Board ship were just fated to gather. The played Anchors Away When they fell in the bay, Thank God we're all done with their blather. Friar writes 07/30/98 In three years from today - I'll be thin! (The last four years - quite fat I have b'n) Cause I read: Every seven, (Not ten or eleven) I get a brand-spanking new skin! The poet comments, "That will be my sixth new skin. Guess how young I am today. " Al Willis writes 07/28/98 In Cuba, their leader is nuts

78. Sir M. James Lighthill sir M. james lighthill. I think the subject I became interested in above all sir M. james lighthill tragically drowned in July 1998 while swimming in http://www.lucasianchair.org/lucasianchair.org/lighthill.html

photo by Bob Bruen Sir M. James Lighthill " I think the subject I became interested in above all was mathematics. I am a mathematician fundamentally, although I have done many other things. I became very interested in mathematics at a very young age. I can never remember not being interested in mathematics, certainly at the age of three or thereabouts." Sir M. James Lighthill During the war in 1941, there was a rule that no one could have more than two years of university education. After that, students were expected to engage in the war effort. Bright students were managing to get the bachelor's degree in the two years. There were very few other people going to the postgraduate lectures that Lighthill and Dyson attended. As a result, Lighthill and Dyson had some of the greatest mathematicians almost to themselves. Sometimes there were only five students in classes given by G. H. Hardy, J. E. Littlewood, P. A. M. Dirac, A. S. Besicovitch, and many other top mathematicians. The ones that taught him most were Hardy and Littlewood, both great mathematical analysts. Both believed that their work was only of importance for its own sake and because it was pure mathematics, incapable of being used for anything. A famous book by Hardy, called A Mathematician's Apology , was written to make this point.

79. The Lighthill Path sir M(ichael) james lighthill is a pioneer in the field of the aerodynamics ofhigh speed aircraft and missiles. He contributed to the theory of jet noise http://www.lucasianchair.org/lucasianchair.org/lighthill-interview.html

The Lighthill Path by Robert Bruen and Jean Flanagan Bruen : What subjects were you most interested in as a child? Lighthill : I was interested in mathematics by the age of three or thereabouts. Like most mathematicians, I was fairly precocious and ahead of my age group. Fortunately, I was able to persuade the schools that I attended to let me learn alongside students who were older than me. I started this at the age of five and at the age of twelve I won a scholarship to Winchester College, where many mathematicians were fostered. When I went to Winchester College, I met Freeman Dyson. Freeman Dyson is now a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He and I are the same age. We managed to persuade our teachers to allow us to study together. Both of us won scholarships to Trinity College, Cambridge at the age of fifteen. Of course, we were much younger than the other students, and the university administration felt we had to wait until we were seventeen to go further. This turned out to be rather good for us. We continued to study mathematics with enthusiasm, but it also gave us time to study many other things. I developed a strong interest in languages. We were able to study the humanities as well as mathematics because we had that extra bit of time before going to the university. When we went to Cambridge, we found that we didn't need to study the undergraduate material at all.

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