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PROF. T. G. COWLING, who succeeds Prof. Brodetsky in the chair of applied mathematics at the University of Leeds, received his mathematical university training at Brasenose College, Oxford, and in 1931 was awarded the D.Phil, degree for a thesis dealing with the magnetic field of the sun and the radiative equilibrium of a spherical star. Afterwards he held lectureships in the mathematical departments at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, the University Colleges at Swansea and Dundee, and the University of Manchester, before being appointed to the chair of mathematics at University College, Bangor, in 1945. In 1947 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He has written a large number of original papers on difficult problems of mathematical astrophysics, the kinetic theory of gases, the physics of the lower atmosphere and also of the ionosphere, and the magnetism of the earth, the sun and sunspots. His principal astrophysical papers deal with the stability of stellar models, the point source model of a star, connective equilibrium in stellar interiors, and the density distribution within stars as deduced from the motion of the apsidal line in close binary stars. He is also joint author with Prof. S. Chapman of the treatise "The Mathematical Theory of Non-Uniform Gases", and of a memoir on gaseous diffusion in a rare gas mixture. In this field one of his most important papers treats the problem of the electrical conductivity of an ionized gas in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. His work is characterized by great critical insight combined with constructive power.
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Mathematics at Leeds : Prof. T. G. Cowling F.R.S. Nature 161, 468 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161468b0
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