1. Lighthill Sir James Lighthill was known as Michael Lighthill when he was a youngman. His father, Ernest Balzar Lighthill was a mining engineer http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Lighthill.html

Michael James Lighthill Born: 23 Jan 1924 in Paris, France Died: 17 July 1998 in Sark, Channel Islands Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Sir James Lighthill was known as Michael Lighthill when he was a young man. His father, Ernest Balzar Lighthill was a mining engineer who was working in Paris at the time his son was born. In fact the original family name had been Lichtenberg, the family being Alsatian, but Ernest Lichtenberg had changed his name to Ernest Lighthill in 1917. James's mother, Marjorie Holmes, was the daughter of an engineer and she was 18 years younger than her husband. Ernest Lighthill was 54 years old when James was born, and three years later, in 1927, he retired and returned to live in England. James was educated at Winchester College and, at the age of 15, he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. However, he chose to wait until he was 17 years old before entering Trinity College which he did in 1941. He graduated with a BA in 1943, after taking a course shortened because of World War II. While at Cambridge, Lighthill met Nancy Dumaresq who was studying mathematics at Newnham College. Lighthill tried to get a job in the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough after he graduated, since Nancy already had a job there. However, he was offered a job in the Aerodynamics Division of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington. Lighthill married Nancy in 1945, the year he finished his job at the National Physical Laboratory.

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COMMENT ON SIR JAMES LIGHTHILL Sir James Lighthill F.R.S., founder President of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, was one of the scientists who were interviewed by Louis Wolpert, for his BBC Radio series "Passionate Minds", published by OUP in 1997. Here is a passage from that interview, on pages 62-63: Wolpert: `Now most of your work has been in fluids. Is there something about fluids that appeals to you?' Sir James: Aha, yes, I think so! I have a sort of general pleasurable feel about fluids and, of course, I'm very interested in flight, and although I worked entirely on aeronautical flight in those days, I subsequently did very comprehensive studies of animal flight - birds, bats and insects - during my later period in Cambridge, working with the zoology department there. And my hobby is swimming; I have a great deal of interest in the ocean - ocean waves, ocean currents, ocean tides - and so I enjoy observing all that when I swim. And then I have a fellow feeling for the swimming animals, and I've written papers about almost all varieties of swimming fishes and invertebrates, and quite a lot of work on micro-organism locomotion. Wolpert: `Part of your passion for fluids is swimming?'

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Sir James Lighthill He was born in Paris in 1924. His father whose family had come from Alsace in the 1860s, was an engineer with an international outlook that James inherited in abundance. From preparatory school at Boxgrove he won a highly competitive scholarship to Winchester College. This seems to have a permanently unsettling effect on many Wykehamists. But James did better than most in following William of Wykeham's motto 'Manners makyth man'! He was always a polite and gracious man. There were only a few occasions when the mathematics at a seminar was so awful that he had to leave or had to remonstrate rather forcibly. Although he won a mathematical scholarship to Trinity College Cambridge at the age of 15, he broadened his education and went up in 1941 aged 17 - together with his mathematical school friend Freeman Dyson. They shared the distinction later on of both becoming honorary Fellows of Trinity. James was amongst the Wranglers when he completed the Maths Tripos two years later; he took only pure maths papers, because he said these could be most useful in his planned career in applied mathematics. It was remarkable that 40 years ago, he could see that these transformations could lead to analysis and hand-calculations. Nowadays they form the basis for the computation of almost any kind of flow. He then showed how approximations to the exact equations for' the different parts of the flow, say near the fish or far away was the next step in the analytical simplification of the flow calculations. Professor Keith Stewartson and Frank Smith's pioneering work at University College analysing flows over the surface of aircraft wings using a three layer sandwich approach owes much to James' work.

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Division of Informatics Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University : a Perspective November 1994 Jim Howe The Nature of Artificial Intelligence History of AI at Edinburgh Unlike its predecessors, the new Department had also committed itself to contribute to undergraduate teaching. Its first course, AI2, a computational modelling course, was launched in 1974/75. This was followed by an introductory course, AI1, in 1978/79. By 1982, it was able to launch its first joint degree, Linguistics with Artificial Intelligence. There were no blueprints for these courses: in each case, the syllabuses had to be carved out of the body of research.

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Michael James Lighthill Born: 23 Jan 1924 in Paris, France Died: 17 July 1998 in Sark, Channel Islands Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Sir James Lighthill was known as Michael Lighthill when he was a young man. His father, Ernest Balzar Lighthill was a mining engineer who was working in Paris at the time his son was born. In fact the original family name had been Lichtenberg, the family being Alsatian, but Ernest Lichtenberg had changed his name to Ernest Lighthill in 1917. James's mother, Marjorie Holmes, was the daughter of an engineer and she was 18 years younger than her husband. Ernest Lighthill was 54 years old when James was born, and three years later, in 1927, he retired and returned to live in England. James was educated at Winchester College and, at the age of 15, he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. However, he chose to wait until he was 17 years old before entering Trinity College which he did in 1941. He graduated with a BA in 1943, after taking a course shortened because of World War II. While at Cambridge, Lighthill met Nancy Dumaresq who was studying mathematics at Newnham College. Lighthill tried to get a job in the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough after he graduated, since Nancy already had a job there. However, he was offered a job in the Aerodynamics Division of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington. Lighthill married Nancy in 1945, the year he finished his job at the National Physical Laboratory.

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13. References For Lighthill References for sir james lighthill. Obituary in The Times available on the Web.Articles DG Crighton, sir james lighthill (The Independent, 22 July 1998). http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Lighthill.html

References for Sir James Lighthill Obituary in The Times available on the Web Articles: D G Crighton, Sir James Lighthill (The Independent, 22 July 1998). Sir James Lighthill (The Times, 20 July, 1998). Sir James Lighthill (The Telegraph, 25 July, 1998). Main index Birthplace Maps Biographies Index History Topics ... Anniversaries for the year JOC/EFR October 2003 School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland The URL of this page is: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/References/Lighthill.html

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16. References 1985. 31 sir james lighthill, The lighthill Report, published by UKScience Engineering Research Council, London, 1973. 32 Lozano http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/IAS_docs/BBAss/B_B_Notes/node22.html

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17. The Times: Obituaries:SIR JAMES LIGHTHILL Extracted by WSK from The Times of London web pages (www.thetimes.co.uk) July 20 1998. OBITUARIES. sir james lighthill sir james lighthill. sir james lighthill, mathematician and Provost of University College London, 1979-89, died Twenty-five years ago, james lighthill became the first person to swim http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/~kessler/more-interesting/lighthill-obit.html

Extracted by WSK from The Times of London web pages (www.the-times.co.uk) July 20 1998 OBITUARIES SIR JAMES LIGHTHILL Sir James Lighthill, mathematician and Provost of University College London, 1979-89, died while attempting to swim around Sark on July 17 aged 74. He was born on January 23, 1924. Twenty-five years ago, James Lighthill became the first person to swim around the Channel Island of Sark, calling it "a most pleasant way to see the scenery". He subsequently repeated the feat five times, but on Friday, nine hours into another attempt and nearing the end of the nine-mile swim, he was found dead in the water. His passion for swimming may have brought him to wide public attention, but it is for his brilliant and wide-ranging contributions to applied mathematics over many years that Lighthill will be remembered. Considered by his peers to be one of the great mathematicians of the century, perhaps even a genius, Lighthill was a pioneer in supersonic aeronautics, in oceanographic studies and astrophysics. He virtually created the field of biofluiddynamics, the study of how animals move through air or water, as well as the study of the fluid mechanics of the cardiovascular system. His ideas touched everything from earthquakes and the boundary currents in the Indian Ocean to the movement of road traffic. He held the senior mathematical chair at Cambridge, and became a leading adviser on government scientific policy. Michael James Lighthill was something of a child prodigy. He won a scholarship from Winchester to Trinity College, Cambridge, when he was just 15, though he did not go up until two years later.

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19. Sir James Lighthill (1924-1998) OBITUARY OF sir james lighthill (19241998). This obituary of lighthill is from theLondon Times. -By a correspondent, July 1998 sir james lighthill. (1924-1998). http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mdamodaran/M447/lighthill.htm

OBITUARY OF SIR JAMES LIGHTHILL (1924-1998) This obituary of Lighthill is from the London Times. -By a correspondent, July 1998 Scientist dies at 74 swimming round isle A SCIENTIST who became the first person to swim around the Channel Island of Sark has died trying to repeat the feat at the age of 74. Sir James Lighthill was found in rough seas off the island's rocky coast more than nine hours after he stepped into the waves for the nine-mile swim. Inspector Paul Gill of Guernsey Police said: "He had apparently swum around the island six times over the years, but this time he didn't make it. The tides are pretty big around Sark and there are some ferocious currents." Sir James, from Cambridge, helped to advance the science of aerodynamics during the Second World War, and was director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment from 1959 to 1964. One of his main interests was fluid dynamics - the science of the movement of water - and he was reported to have used his expertise to calculate the best way to tackle the Sark swim in 1973.

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