Awards & Winners

Joseph Proudman

Date of Birth 30-December-1888
Place of Birth United Kingdom
(Eurasia, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories, Western Europe, Europe, Littlehampton Lifeboat Station)
Nationality
Profession Mathematician
Joseph Proudman, CBE, FRS was a distinguished British mathematician and oceanographer of international repute. His theoretical studies into the oceanic tides not only "solved practically all the remaining tidal problems which are soluble within the framework of classical hydrodynamics and analytical mathematics" but laid the basis of a tidal prediction service of great international importance.

Awards by Joseph Proudman

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1957


Hughes Medal
(For his distinguished work on dynamical oceanography.)