Tim Pedley
{{short description|British mathematician and a former G|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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|name = Tim Pedley
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|03|23|df=y}}
|birth_place = Leicester
|workplaces = Johns Hopkins University
Imperial College London
University of Cambridge
University of Leeds
|thesis_title = Plumes, Bubbles and Vortices
|thesis_year = 1966
|alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge
|doctoral_advisor = George Batchelor{{MathGenealogy|id=58763}}
|doctoral_students = Sarah L. Waters
|awards = Mayhew Prize (1963)
Adams Prize (1977)
IMA Gold Medal (2008)
}}
Timothy John Pedley {{post-nominals|size=100%|country=GBR|FRS}} (born 23 March 1942) is a British mathematician and a former G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge.{{cite book | title = The International Who's Who 2004 | first = Elizabeth | last = Sleeman | publisher = Routledge | year = 2003 | isbn = 1-85743-217-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/internationalwho2004ond }} His principal research interest is the application of fluid mechanics to biology and medicine.
Early life and education
Pedley is the son of Richard Rodman Pedley and Jeanie Mary Mudie Pedley. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Academic career
Pedley 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.
Pedley remained at Cambridge until 1990 when he was appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds. In 1996 he returned to Cambridge and from 2000 to 2005 he was head of DAMTP.{{cite web|url=http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/t.j.pedley|title=Professor T.J. Pedley|publisher=University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics|accessdate=2009-07-22}}
Research
Pedley has pioneered the application of fluid mechanics to understanding biological phenomena. His best-known work includes the study of blood flow in arteries, flow–structure interactions in elastic tubes, flow and pressure drop in the lung, and the collective behaviour of swimming microorganisms.
His research has touched on issues of medical importance, including arterial bypass grafts, urine flow from kidneys to bladder, and the ventilation of premature infants. His work on microorganisms has application to plankton ecology.{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/timothy-pedley-12069|title=Timothy Pedley|publisher=Royal Society|location=London}} 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." {{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |accessdate=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220093712/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archivedate=February 20, 2016 }}
Honours
Pedley is a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2008-09/special/03/11.html|title=Fellows of Gonville and Caius College|publisher=Cambridge University Reporter|accessdate=2009-07-22}} and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995.{{cite web| url = http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/about-us/fellowship/Fellows1660-2007.pdf| title = List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 – 2007 | publisher = Royal Society|accessdate = 2012-03-03}} 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 James 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".{{cite web|title=IMA Gold Medal|url=https://ima.org.uk/awards-medals/ima-gold-medal/|accessdate=16 May 2018}} Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
He was the 2024 recipient of the Fluid Mechanics Prize of the European Mechanics Society, "for his seminal and outstanding contributions to fluid mechanics applied to biology and medicine, and for his distinguished service and leadership for the European and international fluid mechanics community".{{cite web|url=https://euromech.org/prizes/fluid|title=Fluid Mechanics Prizes|publisher=European Mechanics Society|access-date=2024-04-13}}
Marriage and children
In 1965 Pedley married Avril Jennifer Martin Uden, with whom he has two sons. He enjoys birdwatching, running and reading.
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Category:20th-century British mathematicians
Category:21st-century British mathematicians
Category:Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Category:British fluid dynamicists
Category:Cambridge mathematicians
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Category:Academics of Imperial College London
Category:Academics of the University of Leeds
Category:G. I. Taylor Professors of Fluid Mechanics
Category:Journal of Fluid Mechanics editors