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Joseph Proudman

Joseph Proudman (1888–1975) occupied the chair of applied mathematics at Liverpool University from 1919 to 1933, then the chair of oceanography until his retirement in 1954. On his initiatives, the Tidal Institute (now the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory) at Bidston Observatory, near Liverpool, was founded (1919) and, much later (1949), the National Institute of Oceanography (now the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences), headquartered near Godalming, Surrey. Of Proudman's published scientific work, about two–thirds is on the theory of ocean tides, and most of the rest is about other aspects of oceanography.

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