Edwards, Arthur Tudor, (died 25 Aug. 1946), Surgeon-in-Charge, Department of Thoracic Surgery, London Hospital; Surgeon, Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest; Consultant Adviser to Minister of Health for Chest Casualties; Civilian Consultant in Chest Surgery to Royal Air Force; Hon. Consulting Thoracic Surgeon to the Army; Consulting Surgeon, King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst; Consulting Thoracic Surgeon, LCC and Mount Vernon Hospitals; Examiner in Surgery, University of Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Association of Surgeons; President, Society of Thoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland; Hon. Fellow, American Association of Thoracic Surgeons; Corresponding Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine; Fellow (Foreign), Belgian Society of Surgery; Hon. MD Grenoble

Derek Moore was born in South Shields and studied at the local grammar school, from which he gained an Exhibition to Jesus College, Cambridge. However, before going to Cambridge he did his National Service in the Royal Air Force and was stationed in Yorkshire, where one of his fellow personnel was the poet Ted Hughes. He entered Jesus College in 1951, studying for the Mathematical Tripos, which he gained in 1954, and for Part III, which he gained in 1955. He then became a research student in applied mathematics and theoretical fluid mechanics under the supervision of Dr Ian Proudman and was awarded a PhD degree of the University of Cambridge in 1958. Thereafter he held positions at the University of Bristol, the Goddard Space Flight Center, New York, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Imperial College, London, where he spent the major part of his career. He became distinguished for the Moore-Spiegel oscillator and the Moore singularity. Moreover he had a strong interest in jazz, which is the subject of an appreciation by Peter Batten.

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Her Majesty the Queen Honours the Society’s i.g.y. antarctic expedition

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1957.0005 ◽

1957 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 163-165

Keyword(s):

Air Force ◽

Royal Society ◽

Royal Air Force ◽

Management Committee ◽

International Geophysical Year ◽

Antarctic Expedition ◽

To Receive ◽

International Geophysical

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN honoured the Society on the afternoon of 13 November 1956 on the occasion of her visit to the Motor Ship Magga Dan moored alongside Butlers Wharf, Tower Bridge. On her arrival Her Majesty was welcomed by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor, G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., the Chairman of the Management Committee of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, with whom the ship was being shared, and by the President, Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, P.R.S. After Her Majesty had received Dr Vivian Fuchs and the members of the main party of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, who were about to proceed to Shackleton Base, she was graciously pleased to receive Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Smart, R.A.M.C., the leader of the main party of the Royal Society International Geophysical Year Antarctic Expedition, who were about to proceed to Royal Society Base, Halley Bay. Colonel Smart then presented the following members of his party:

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