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Gerald Beresford Whitham is an American applied mathematician and the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied Mathematics (Emeritus) of Applied & Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1953 under the direction of Sir James Lighthill. He is known for his work in fluid dyanmics and waves.

Academic career
Whitham received his Ph.D. from University of Manchester in 1953. He was a Faculty Memeber in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 1959-1962. He left MIT to join University of California, Berkeley where he was instrumental in setting up the applied mathematics program in 1965.

Honors and Awards
Whitham received the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1980, jointly awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematicians (SIAM) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). This prize was awarded "for an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense." Sethian was honoured "for his broad contributions to the understanding of fluid dynamical phenomena and his innovative contributions to the methodology through which that understanding can be constructed".

Books authored

 * G. B. Whitham, Linear and Nonlinear Waves, John Wiley & Sons(1974).