Leslie Howarth FRS (23 May 1911 – 22 September 2001) was a British mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics and

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Biography

Howarth was educated at

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, from where he moved to

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

with

Sydney Goldstein Sydney Goldstein FRS (3 December 1903, Kingston upon Hull – 22 January 1989, Cambridge, MA) was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics. He is described as: "... one of those who most influenced progress in fluid d ...

and then at the University of Cambridge (Caius and Gonville College) with a bachelor's degree in 1933 and a doctorate at Goldstein in 1936. Leslie married Eva Priestley when he was still a research student. Afterwards, he was a lecturer at King's College, Cambridge. In 1937–38 he was with

Theodore von Kármán Theodore von Kármán ( hu, ( szőllőskislaki) Kármán Tódor ; born Tivadar Mihály Kármán; 11 May 18816 May 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronaut ...

at Caltech. During World War II he worked first in ballistics and from 1942 on the Armament Research Department. After the war, he was a lecturer at St John's College, Cambridge, where

Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a ...

was one of his students, and from 1949 Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol. In 1964 he became Henry Overton Wills Professor and Head of the Mathematics Faculty. From 1957 to 1960 he was dean of the Faculty of Science. In 1976 he became emeritus professor.

Research

Haworth dealt especially with

boundary layer theory In physics and fluid mechanics, a boundary layer is the thin layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface formed by the fluid flowing along the surface. The fluid's interaction with the wall induces a no-slip boundary condi ...

. A work with

in 1938 was about isotropic turbulence, in connection with G. I. Taylor.

Honours

In 1935 Haworth received the Smith's Prize, and in 1951 the

Adams Prize The Adams Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes awarded by the University of Cambridge. It is awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and St John's College to a UK-based mathematician for distinguis ...

. In 1950 he became a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...

. In 1955 he was awarded the OBE.

Family

In 1934 Howarth married Eva Priestley, with whom he had two sons.

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