Graduate profile: Wei Ann Heng, software engineer
Wei Ann went from a physics degree to a career in software engineering – she shares some insights on her job, her physics experience, and what it’s like working in tech.
Science
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Maurice Priestley
In this historical feature we explore Maurice Priestley (1933-2013) and his influential work. Professor Maurice Priestley, was a highly regarded figure in the field of time series analysis. He made outstanding contributions to the spectral analysis of non-stationary time series and density estimation. His book “Spectral Analysis and Time Series” (1982) has become a standard…
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Phyllis Nicolson
In this historical feature we explore Phyllis Nicolson (1917-1968) and her influential work. Phyllis Nicolson (née Lockett), most well-known for her work on the Crank-Nicolson method, received her BSc (1938), MSc (1939) and PhD (1946) in Physics from the University of Manchester before taking up a research fellowship at Cambridge University for three years. After…
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Max Newman
In this historical feature we explore Max Newman (1897-1984) and his influential work. Max Newman was the first person in Britain to contribute to modern topology. He made a significant contribution to the British success in deciphering German messages and he was a particularly effective academic manager. MHA Newman’s early work was in Cambridge where…
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Joan Walsh
In this historical feature we explore Joan Walsh (1932-2017) and her influential work. Joan Walsh is known for her contribution to the development of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing at the University of Manchester and in the UK more generally. She also had a major impact on undergraduate teaching at the University of Manchester. After…
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Louis Mordell
In this historical feature we explore Louis Mordell (1888-1972) and his influential work. Louis Mordell was a distinguished number theorist. In Manchester he discovered one of his best known results, namely the finite basis theorem (or Mordell–Weil theorem), which proved a conjecture of Henri Poincaré. He also made a conjecture about algebraic equations that became…
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James Lighthill
In this historical feature we explore James Lighthill (1924-1998) and his influential work. James Lighthill was known for his pioneering work in the fields of hydrodynamics, wave mechanics, aerodynamics, biomechanics, and for creating the field of aeroacoustics. His studies on supersonic flows proved vital in the development of the Concorde supersonic airliner. In 1946, Lighthill…