John M. T. Thompson#
| Membership Number: | 2810 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1964 Professor Emeritus
- 2006 - present Distinguished Sixth Century Professor (part time) University of Aberdeen, School of Engineering
- 2003 - 2014 Honorary Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge
- 1991 - 2002 Founder and director of the UCL Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics and its Applications
- 1988 - 1993 Senior fellow of the UK Science and Engineering Research Council
- 1964 Lecturer, Reader, Professor, Emeritus Professor, University College London, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Fields of Scholarship
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Shell buckling
- Chaos in impacting system
Honours and Awards
- 1977 Sc.D. (Cambridge)
- 1989 - 1992 Council of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
- 11 July 2002 Fellow of the Royal Society, 1985. Elected to the Council
- 1985 OMAE Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 1992 James Alfred Ewing Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers & the Royal Society
- 1998 - 2007 Editor, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A)
- 2003 - present Honorary Fellow, Dept Applied Maths & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University
- 2004 Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Aberdeen
- 2004 Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, for lifetime contributions to mathematics
- 2010 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, elected Honorary Member
- 2010 Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea)
- 2013 Lyapunov Award (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) for work in nonlinear dynamics
