Philip John Holmes (born May 24, 1945) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at

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. As a member of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, he formerly served as the interim chair until May 2007. Before moving to Princeton in 1994 he taught theoretical and applied mechanics at

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from 1977 until 1994, when he was the Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mathematics. Holmes was educated in England at the

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, where he studied engineering from 1964 to 1967, and at the

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, where he obtained a

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in engineering in 1974. He has made solid contributions to the field of

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and differential equations. His book on dynamical systems with

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is a landmark in the field. Holmes is a very creative researcher and scientist and an outstanding lecturer. The sheer breadth of his contributions to applied mathematics is illustrated by the different topics on which he published books: apart from the aforementioned book, he published a book on turbulence with

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and Gahl Berkooz, as well as a book on knots and links in dynamical systems with Robert Ghrist and Michael C. Sullivan, and a book about celestial mechanics with Florin Diacu. He was elected a fellow of the

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in 1994. In 2001 he was elected an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2006 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, and in 2012 he was elected a fellow of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-01-21. He also has published several collections of

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. Among them his 1986 award-winning collection ‘The Green Road’.

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