[1] Pearson was born in Cairo on 18 September 1930[1] and educated at Bedford Modern School, Trinity College Cambridge and Harvard University.
Pearson was Assistant Director of Research in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1960–73), Director of Studies in Mathematics and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1961–73) and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London (1973–82).
[1] In 1980, Pearson was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering contributions to fluid mechanics, interfacial phenomena, and the modeling of polymer flows.
Commenting on the Fellowship, the University of Cambridge stated that he had ‘pioneered developments in fluid mechanics, including the first asymptotic analysis of viscous flow past a cylinder, a rapid-distortion theory of turbulence and studies of Marangoni convection, and the instability of flow under rollers’.
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