Eric Stephen Barnes

Last updated • 1 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Eric Stephen Barnes (1924–2000), was an Australian pure mathematician. He was awarded the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal in 1959, and was (Sir Thomas) Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1954. [1] [2] [3] [4]

He was born in Cardiff, Wales, 16 January 1924 and died 16 October 2000 in Adelaide, South Australia. He was educated at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge. He held appointments as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1950–1954; assistant lecturer, Cambridge 1951–1953; reader in pure mathematics, University of Sydney 1953–1958; Elder Professor of Mathematics, University of Adelaide 1959–1974; Secretary (Physical Sciences) Australian Academy of Science 1972–1976; Deputy Vice-chancellor University of Adelaide 1975–1980; Professor of Pure Mathematics University of Adelaide 1981–1983. [2] [5]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert May, Baron May of Oxford</span> Australian scientist, president of the Royal Society (1936–2020)

Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He held joint professorships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He was also a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 2001 until his retirement in 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sydney Chapman (mathematician)</span> British mathematician and geophysicist

Sydney Chapman was a British mathematician and geophysicist. His work on the kinetic theory of gases, solar-terrestrial physics, and the Earth's ozone layer has inspired a broad range of research over many decades.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Horace Lamb</span> English mathematician (1849–1934)

Sir Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1895) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). Both of these books remain in print. The word vorticity was invented by Lamb in 1916.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernest Barnes</span> British mathematician (1874–1953)

Ernest William Barnes was a British mathematician and scientist who later became a liberal theologian and bishop.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Australian Academy of Science</span> Academy of sciences

The Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australians, including Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London. The first president was Sir Mark Oliphant. The academy is modelled after the Royal Society and operates under a Royal charter; as such, it is an independent body, but it has government endorsement. The Academy Secretariat is in Canberra, at the Shine Dome.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Varghese Mathai</span>

Mathai Varghese is a mathematician at the University of Adelaide. His first most influential contribution is the Mathai–Quillen formalism, which he formulated together with Daniel Quillen, and which has since found applications in index theory and topological quantum field theory. He was appointed a full professor in 2006. He was appointed Director of the Institute for Geometry and its Applications in 2009. In 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2013, he was appointed the Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. In 2017, he was awarded an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship. In 2021, he was awarded the prestigious Hannan Medal and Lecture from the Australian Academy of Science, recognizing an outstanding career in Mathematics. In 2021, he was also awarded the prestigious George Szekeres Medal which is the Australian Mathematical Society’s most prestigious medal, recognising research achievement and an outstanding record of promoting and supporting the discipline.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge</span> Mathematics research and teaching centre in Cambridge, England

The Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge comprises the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). It is housed in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences site in West Cambridge, alongside the Isaac Newton Institute. Many distinguished mathematicians have been members of the faculty.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Elder</span> Australian politician

Sir Thomas Elder was a Scottish-Australian pastoralist, highly successful businessman, philanthropist, politician, race-horse owner and breeder, and public figure. Amongst many other things, he is notable for introducing camels to Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles E. M. Pearce</span>

Charles Edward Miller Pearce was a New Zealand/Australian mathematician. At the time of his death on 8 June 2012 he was the Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hugh Stretton</span> Australian historian

Hugh Stretton was an Australian historian who wrote books on politics, urban planning, and economics, and a Rhodes Scholar. He was a key figure in the development and implementation of government policies affecting cities, particularly during the Whitlam government.

Renfrey Burnard (Ren) Potts AO (1925–2005) was an Australian mathematician and is notable for the Potts model and his achievements in: operations research, especially networks; transportation science, car-following and road traffic; Ising-type models in mathematical physics; difference equations; and robotics. He was interested in computing from the early days of the computing revolution and oversaw the first computer purchases at the University of Adelaide.

Thomas Gerald Room FRS FAA was an Australian mathematician who is best known for Room squares. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

Gregory Maxwell "Max" Kelly was an Australian mathematician who worked on category theory.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael S. Longuet-Higgins</span>

Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins FRS was a British mathematician and oceanographer at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Cambridge University, England and Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego, USA. He was the younger brother of H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernie Tuck</span> Australian mathematician

Professor Ernest Oliver (Ernie) Tuck was an Australian applied mathematician, notable for his sustained work in ship hydrodynamics, and for Tuck's incompressibility function.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Horatio Scott Carslaw</span> Scottish-Australian mathematician

Dr Horatio Scott Carslaw FRSE LLD was a Scottish-Australian mathematician. The book he wrote with his colleague John Conrad Jaeger, Conduction of Heat in Solids, remains a classic in the field.

The Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal is awarded at most every two years by the Australian Academy of Science to a mathematician or physicist for his or her outstanding research accomplishments. It is named after Thomas Ranken Lyle, an Irish mathematical physicist who became a professor at the University of Melbourne. The award takes the form of a bronze medal bearing the design of the head of Thomas Lyle, as sculpted by Rayner Hoff.

Sir Thomas MacFarland Cherry F.A.A., F.R.S. was an Australian mathematician, serving as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Melbourne from 1929 until his retirement in 1963.

Anthony William (Tony) Thomas is an Australian physicist, Professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide since 1984 and Elder Professor of Physics since 1990.

John Conrad Jaeger, FRS, was an Australian mathematical physicist.

References

  1. Eric Stephen Barnes, 1924–2000, Australian Academy of Science
  2. 1 2 Eric Stephen Barnes, 1924–2000 Archived 29 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine , Australian Academy of Science (25 page biography)
  3. Barnes, Eric Stephen (1924–2000), www.eoas.info
  4. Wall, G.E., Pitman, Jane and Potts, R.B. (2004). "Eric Stephen Barnes, 1924–2000". Historical Records of Australian Science. 15 (1): 21–45. doi:10.1071/hr03013.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. Barnes, E. S. (Eric Stephen) (1924–2000), trove.nla.gov.au