The man who held this post in the 1970s was a pioneer in nonlinear acoustics who wrote Waves in Fluids, James Lighthill.
The man who held this post in the 1970s was a pioneer in nonlinear acoustics who wrote Waves in Fluids, James Lighthill. The first person to hold this post resigned in order to become a priest, though not before discovering how to calculate the (*) slope of a tangent. Gabriel Stokes was its longest holder. For 10 points— name this prestigious Cambridge post held by such figures as Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking.
The man who held this post in the 1970s was a pioneer in nonlinear acoustics who wrote Waves in Fluids, James Lighthill.
Lucasian chair or Lucasian professorship of mathematics