Gerald B. Whitham
American mathematician
Gerald Beresford Whitham FRS was a British–born American applied mathematician and the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied Mathematics of Applied & Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. Wikipedia
Born: December 13, 1927, Halifax, United Kingdom
Died: January 26, 2014 (age 86 years)
Notable students: Noel F. Smyth, Rodolfo Ruben Rosales, Donald W. Miklovic, and more
Award: Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics (1980)