Joseph Proudman

Mathematician, Award Winner

1888 – 1975

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Who was Joseph Proudman?

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.

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Born
Dec 30, 1888
United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
Died
Jun 26, 1975

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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