Researching Tim Pedley
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1517 people with the Pedley surname? In that year Pedley was ranked number 2154 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Tim means "Form of TIMOTHY. honoring God" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Tim Pedley on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Tim Pedley and the Pedley Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 2153 people with the Pedley surname in the UK? Pedley is now ranked number 2251 for popularity in the UK. |
Pedley Family History Databases
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Tim Pedley
Timothy John Pedley (born 23 March 1942) is a British mathematician and a former G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge. His principal research interest is the application of fluid mechanics to biology and medicine.
He spent three years at Johns Hopkins University as a post-doctoral fellow. From 1968 to 1973 he was a lecturer at Imperial College London, after which he moved to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge. He remained at Cambridge until 1990 when he moved to Leeds University to be Professor of Applied Mathematics. In 1996 he returned to Cambridge and from 2000 to 2005 he was head of DAMTP.
He is a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1995). Pedley was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1999) for research on biofluid dynamics, collapsible tube flow, and the theory of swimming of fish and microorganisms. In 2008 Pedley and Professor J. D. Murray, FRS were jointly awarded the Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in recognition of their "outstanding contributions to mathematics and its applications over a period of years".
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