Eric R. Priest#
| Email: | eric 'at' mcs.st-and.ac.uk |
| Membership Number: | 2605 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Username: | epriest |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 Bishop Wardlaw Chair at St Andrew
- 1997 James Gregory Chair of Mathematics at St Andrews
- 1983 Personal Chair in Theoretical Solar Physics at St Andrews
- 1977 Reader in Applied Mathematics at St Andrews
- 1968 Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at St Andrews
- 1987 Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Leeds University
Fields of Scholarship
- applied mathematics
- magnetohydrodynamics
- plasma physics
- solar physics
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1994 Elected Member of Norwegian Academy of Sciences & Letters
- 2002 Awarded the Hale Prize of the American Astronomical Society
- 2002 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2009 Gold medal of the UK Royal Astronomical Society
- 2009 Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize of the UK Institute of Physics
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