Person Cartwright; David Edgar (1926 - 2015) Cartwright David Edgar 1926 - 2015 British Male London, England, United Kingdom 21/10/1926 19261021 West Sussex, England, United Kingdom 02/12/2015 20151202

Oceanographer Marine sciences Tides Ocean waves Education: Worthing High School for Boys; St John's College, University of Cambridge, BA in natural science and electronics (1946); King's College London, BSc in mathematics (1951), DSc (1968) Career: Dublier Condenser Company (1946); GEC Illumination Engineering Laboratory (1947-1949); Scientific Officer, Department of Naval Construction (1951-1954); National Institute of Oceanography (1954-1973); Research Sabbatical, Institute of Geophysics amd Planetary Physics, California, United States of America (1964-1965);Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1973); Assistant Director, Institute of Oceanographic Sciences ( later the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, then the National Oceanography Centre at Liverpool) (1974-1986); Senior Research Associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, United States of America (1987-1989); NASA Consultant, helped to plan the launch of the successful Topex-Poseidon satellite (1992); Memberships: Hon RSNZ (1964); FRAS (1975); American Geophysical Union (1991) Married (1951) Anne-Marie Guerin After making important contributions to the statistical theory of ocean surface waves and the oscillatory motions of ships, David Cartwright became a leading investigator of ocean tides. He owed his success in this to a well-combined use of the available tools; deep sea pressure measurements using specially developed instruments in carefully selected sites, analysis of these and other records using powerful new methods of time series analysis, and skilled interpretation in terms of tidal dynamics supplemented by numerical models where required. His interests included the tides of the solid Earth and the surprisingly strong interactions between the fluid and solid tides: his major paper on the north-east Atlantic (the result of ten years of observation, analysis and interpretation) provides the first directly measured estimates of the oceanic tidal energy flux and dissipation since the pioneering studies of Geoffrey Taylor and Harold Jeffreys, with implications for the longstanding problem of the Moon’s recession from the Earth. Dr David Cartwright FRS died on 2 December 2015. Fellow 15/03/1984 57 Sources: Royal Society profile page (https://royalsociety.org/people/david-cartwright-11190/, accessed 2 February 2021) Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edgar_Cartwright, accessed 2 February 2021) ODNB 'In Memmorium of David Cartwright FRS', National Oceanography Centre (https://noc.ac.uk/news/memoriam-dr-david-cartwright-frs, accessed 2 February 2021) Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 2017, Vol 63, pp 99-115 (doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0001, accessed 2 February 2021) References: Walter Munk, 'Solving the Tidal Problem', review of David E Cartwright, Tides: A Scientific History in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 116-119 D E Cartwright, 'The Tonkin tides revisited' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 135-142 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 'Tides - a Scientific History' (1999); https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n98013809/ 21 Oct 1926 - 2 Dec 2015 NA3351 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/19837468 697685e0-f722-453c-b7e7-7700a906f327