Michael E. McIntyre

{{Infobox scientist

|name = Michael E. McIntyre

|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|size=100%}}

|image = Michael Edgeworth McIntyre in 2012.jpg

|caption = McIntyre in 2012

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|07|28|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Sydney, Australia

|spouse = Ruth McIntyre

|nationality = English

|fields = Applied mathematics, meteorology, atmospheric dynamics, musical acoustics

|alma_mater = University of Otago (BSc.)

|doctoral_advisor = Francis Bretherton

|doctoral_students =

|awards = {{unbulleted list

|Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, 1987

|Julius Bartels Medal, 1999 {{cite web |title=Awards & Honors: Julius Bartels Medal |author=European Geosciences Union |author-link=European Geosciences Union |accessdate=28 July 2023 | url=https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/julius-bartels/ }}

|Symons Gold Medal, 2023}}

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Michael Edgeworth McIntyre FRS (born 28 July 1941)[https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U25787 McIntyre, Prof. Michael Edgeworth], Who's Who 2020, A & C Black, 2020; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2020 is a mathematician and Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Dynamics.

McIntyre has contributed to the fundamental understanding of geophysical fluid dynamics in the Earth's atmosphere, oceans and the Sun's Interior. McIntyre is also known for his contributions to the physics of stringed musical instruments{{Cite journal |last1=McIntyre |first1=M. E. |last2=Schumacher |first2=R. T. |last3=Woodhouse |first3=J. |date=1983-11-01 |title=On the oscillations of musical instruments |url=https://pubs.aip.org/jasa/article/74/5/1325/789860/On-the-oscillations-of-musical |journal=The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |language=en |volume=74 |issue=5 |pages=1325–1345 |doi=10.1121/1.390157 |issn=0001-4966}}{{Cite journal |last1=McIntyre |first1=M. E. |last2=Woodhouse |first2=J. |date=1978-06-01 |title=The Acoustics of Stringed Musical Instruments |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/030801878791926128 |journal=Interdisciplinary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=157–173 |doi=10.1179/030801878791926128 |issn=0308-0188}} and has published several works on lucidity and science.{{Cite journal |last=McIntyre |first=Michael E. |date=1997-09-01 |title=Lucidity and science I: Writing skills and the pattern perception hypothesis |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/isr.1997.22.3.199 |journal=Interdisciplinary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=199–216 |doi=10.1179/isr.1997.22.3.199 |issn=0308-0188}}{{Cite journal |last=McIntyre |first=Michael E. |date=1997-12-01 |title=Lucidity and science II: From acausality illusions and free will to final theories, mathematics, and music |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/isr.1997.22.4.285 |journal=Interdisciplinary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=285–303 |doi=10.1179/isr.1997.22.4.285 |issn=0308-0188}}{{Cite journal |last=McIntyre |first=Michael E. |date=1998-03-01 |title=Lucidity and science III: Hypercredulity, quantum mechanics, and scientific truth |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/isr.1998.23.1.29 |journal=Interdisciplinary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=29–70 |doi=10.1179/isr.1998.23.1.29 |issn=0308-0188}} He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and is the holder of the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the highest honour of the American Meteorological Society, and the Julius Bartels Medal of the European Geophysical Society.

He also received the 2023 Symons Gold Medal from the Royal Meteorological Society for distinguished work in the field of meteorological science.{{cite web|url=https://www.rmets.org/awards-advancing-science-1|title=Awards for Advancing Science|publisher=Royal Meteorological Society|accessdate=8 July 2021}}

Research

In the field of fluid dynamics and atmospheric science, McIntyre, together with Peter H. Haynes, established the Impermeability Theorem{{Cite journal |last1=Haynes |first1=P. H. |last2=McIntyre |first2=M. E. |date=1987-03-01 |title=On the Evolution of Vorticity and Potential Vorticity in the Presence of Diabatic Heating and Frictional or Other Forces |journal=Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |language=en |volume=44 |issue=5 |pages=828–841 |doi=10.1175/1520-0469(1987)044<0828:OTEOVA>2.0.CO;2 |issn=0022-4928|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Haynes |first1=P. H. |last2=McIntyre |first2=M. E. |date=1990-08-01 |title=On the Conservation and Impermeability Theorems for Potential Vorticity |url=http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/1520-0469(1990)0472.0.CO;2 |journal=Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |language=en |volume=47 |issue=16 |pages=2021–2031 |doi=10.1175/1520-0469(1990)047<2021:OTCAIT>2.0.CO;2 |issn=0022-4928}} for potential vorticity (PV), which states that there can be no net transport of PV across isentropic surfaces, and that PV can neither be created nor destroyed within a volume bounded by isentropic surfaces. In light of the aforementioned result, PV substance, which corresponds to PV multiplied by the mass density in isentropic coordinates, integrated over a volume of an isentropic layer, is either diluted or concentrated by diabatic mass flux through the isentropic layer bounds.

Books

In 2021, he published a book, titled "Science, Music, and Mathematics: The Deepest Connections" [https://doi.org/10.1142/12381 Science, Music, and Mathematics], World Scientific, 2021 which draws on his experience as a musician as well as a scientist. A wide variety of topics is covered including, for instance, how the skilful use of language can be informed by the way music works, and what science can and cannot tell us about the climate problem and its uncertainties. A second edition of the book will be published in August 2023.

References

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