Paul Frederick Linden (born 29 January 1947) is a

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

specialising in

fluid dynamics In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids— liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) an ...

. He was the third

G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics The G. I. Taylor Professorship of Fluid Mechanics is a professorship in fluid mechanics at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1992 and named in honor of G. I. Taylor, after a fundraising campaign by George Batchelor. Philip Saffman, a ...

at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, inaugural Blasker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science and Engineering at the

UC San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

and a fellow of

Downing College Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 650 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to Cambridge University between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the olde ...

Education

Linden earned his PhD from the

in 1972, under the supervision of

Stewart Turner John Stewart Turner FAA FRS (11 January 1930 – 3 July 2022) was an Australian geophysicist. Early life Stewart Turner was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney University. He then joined the Cloud Physics Group, CSIRO Divisi ...

. His thesis was entitled ''The Effect of Turbulence and Shear on Salt Fingers''.

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003. Linden was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2007. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." His certificate of election reads:

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* * * 1947 births Living people Fluid dynamicists Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the American Physical Society 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians University of California, San Diego faculty Professors of the University of Cambridge {{Mathematician-stub