What is Nigel Weiss?
'''Nigel Oscar Weiss''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (16 December 1936 &ndash; 24 June 2020) was a South African [[astronomer]] and mathematician. He was a leader in the field of astrophysical and geophysical [[fluid dynamics]]. He was [[Emeritus]] Professor of Mathematical [[Astrophysics]] at the [[University of Cambridge]]. Between 2000 and 2002 he was President of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]]. He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Weiss_Nigel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Weiss_Nigel |title=Nigel O. Weiss |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Weiss died on 24 June 2020, aged 83.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cweb1.clare.cam.ac.uk/news/news.php?name=2020093904 |title=Professor Nigel Weiss (1936-2020) |access-date=2020-06-26 |archive-date=2020-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627115649/https://cweb1.clare.cam.ac.uk/news/news.php?name=2020093904/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Weiss, Nigel Oscar}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:South African scientists]] [[Category:Astronomers]] [[Category:Mathematicians]] [[Category:Members of Academia Europaea]] {{bio-stub}}