Visions of the Future: Physics and Electronics - Softcover

 
9780521805384: Visions of the Future: Physics and Electronics

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Leading young scientists give engaging reviews of their research areas and exciting visions of future developments.

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Michael Thompson is currently Editor of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions (Series A). He graduated from Cambridge with first class honours in Mechanical Sciences in 1958, and obtained his PhD in 1962, his ScD in 1977. He was a Fulbright researcher in aeronautics at Stanford University, and joined University College London in 1964. He has published four books on instabilities, bifurcations, catastrophe theory and chaos, and was appointed Professor at UCL in 1977. Michael was elected FRS in 1985, and was awarded the Ewing Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was a Senior SERC Fellow and served on the IMA Council. In 1991 he was appointed Director of the Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics.

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