Adrian Gill

Adrian Edmund Gill FRS[1] (22 February 1937 – 19 April 1986) was an Australian meteorologist and oceanographer best known for his textbook Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics . Gill was born in Melbourne Australia and worked at Cambridge, serving as Senior Research Fellow from 1963 to 1984 . His father was Edmund Gill, geologist, palaeontologist and curator at the National Museum of Victoria.

For British writer, see A. A. Gill.

Adrian Edmund Gill
Born(1937-02-22)22 February 1937
Died19 April 1986 (1986-04-20) (aged 49)
AwardsChree medal and prize (1985)
Scientific career
FieldsMeteorology and oceanography
ThesisThe Stability of Axisymmetric Fluid Flows (1963)
Doctoral advisorGeorge Batchelor

Gill was chair of the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere programme. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1986.[2] His candidacy citation read: "Dr A.E. Gill is internationally recognised for his work in geophysical fluid dynamics and leads a small but highly productive team working on problems in dynamical oceanography and meteorology. He has made outstanding theoretical contributions to a wide range of topics, including the stability of pipe flow, thermal convection, circulation of the Southern Ocean, seasonal variability of the ocean, waves in rotating fluids, wind-induced upwelling, coastal currents and sea-level changes and coastally-trapped waves in the atmosphere, and he is particularly effective in the way he is able to interpret observations and guide the activities of observational workers".

Honours
  • Individual Merit Senior Principal Scientific Officer of the Meteorological Office.
  • Florida State University has a professorship endowned in his honour .
  • The Royal Meteorological Society annually awards an "Adrian Gill Award" to a member of the Society who has made a significant contribution in [fields] that interface between atmospheric science and... oceanography, hydrology, geochemistry and numerical methodologies.

References
  1. Batchelor, G. K.; Hide, R. (1988). "Adrian Edmund Gill. 22 February 1937 – 19 April 1986". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 34: 222. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1988.0009. JSTOR 770052.
  2. "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 7 January 2011.


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