Name: Michael S. Longuet-Higgins, Mathematician and Oceanographer, (b. Lenham, England, 1925).

Address: Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA  92037-0402, U.S.A.  Email: mlonguet@ucsd.edu

Fields of interest: Fluid dynamics, ocean waves and currents, geophysics, underwater sound, projective geometry, polyhedra, mathematical toys.

Awards:  Rayleigh Prize for Mathematics, Cambridge University, 1950; Hon.D. Tech., Technical University of Denmark, 1979; Hon. LL.D., University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1979; Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1981; Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society, 1983; International Coastal Engineering Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984; Oceanography Award of the Society for Underwater Technology, 1990; Honorary Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, 2002.

Publications:  Uniform polyhedra (with H.S.M. Coxeter and J.C.P. Miller), Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A 246 (1954), 401-450; Some Mathematical Toys (film), British Association Meeting, Aberdeen, Scotland, 1963; Clifford’s chain and its analogues, in relation to the higher polytopes, Proc. R. Soc. Lond., A 330 (1972), 443-466;  Inversive properties of the plane n-line, and a symmetric figure of 2x5 points on a quadric, J. Lond. Math. Soc., 12  (1976), 206-212; Part II (with C.F. Parry) J. Lond. Math. Soc., 19 (1979), 541-560; Nested triacontahedral shells, or How to grow a quasi-crystal, Math. Intelligencer, 25 (2003), 25-43.