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Professor J.M.T. Thompson, FRS

Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics & its Applications

(devoted to Interdisciplinary Research Studies)

Civil Engineering Building

University College London

Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.

College: 0171-387-7050
Direct Line: +44 (0)20 7679-2719
FAX: 0171-380-0986

e-mail: jmtt@ucl.ac.uk

Honorary Fellow, Dept Applied Maths & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University.
Emeritus Professor, Nonlinear Dynamics, UCL.
Editor, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. Series A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences.
Elected to the Council of the Royal Society, 2002.

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Biographical note by Lord Chilver: PDF

A brief curriculum vitae :

Born in Cottingham, Yorks, Michael Thompson studied at Cambridge where he graduated with first class honours in Mechanical Sciences in 1958, and obtained his PhD in 1962. He was a Fulbright researcher in aeronautics at Stanford University, and joined University College London in 1964. He has published four books on bifurcation theory and was appointed Professor at UCL in 1977. Michael was elected FRS in 1985, and was awarded the Ewing Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was a Senior SERC Fellow and served on the IMA Council. In 1991 he was appointed Director of the Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics. Aged 62, his scientific interests include nonlinear dynamics and their applications: recreations include walking, tennis and astronomy with his grandson Ben, shown here. Click more at the top of this page for a full and up-to-date CV in Word format.