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William Stephen Childress is an American applied mathematician, author and professor emeritus at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He works on classical fluid mechanics, asymptotic methods and singular perturbations, geophysical fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics and dynamo theory, mathematical models in biology, and locomotion in fluids. He is also a co-founder of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences's Applied Mathematics Lab.

Published books

• 1977: Mechanics of Swimming and Flying, online ISBN 9780511569593.
• 1978: Mathematical models in developmental biology with Jerome K. Percus, ISBN 978-1470410803
• 1987: Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Dynamics, Dynamo Theory, and Climate Dynamics, with M. Ghil. Softcover ISBN 978-0-387-96475-1, eBook ISBN 978-1-4612-1052-8.
• 1995: Stretch, Twist, Fold: The Fast Dynamo with Andrew D. Gilbert, ISBN 978-3662140147, ISBN 3662140144
• 2009: An Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Mechanics, ISBN 978-0-8218-4888-3.
• 2012: Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces Swimming, Flying, and Sliding. Edited with Anette Hosoi, William W. Schultz, Jane Wang. Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4614-3996-7, Softcover ISBN 978-1-4899-9916-0, eBook ISBN 978-1-4614-3997-4
• 2018: Construction of Steady-state Hydrodynamic Dynamos. I. Spatially Periodic Fields, ISBN 978-1378904725

Recognition

• 1976 Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
• 2008 Fellow of American Physical Society

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5. Childress, Stephen (June 25, 1981). Mechanics of Swimming and Flying. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511569593. ISBN 9780521236133. Archived from the original on January 30, 2022. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
6. Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Dynamics, Dynamo Theory, and Climate Dynamics. Applied Mathematical Sciences. Vol. 60. 1987. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1052-8. ISBN 978-0-387-96475-1. Archived from the original on 2022-01-30. Retrieved 2022-06-25 – via link.springer.com.
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8. Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications. Vol. 155. 2012. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3997-4. ISBN 978-1-4614-3996-7. Archived from the original on 2022-03-03. Retrieved 2022-06-25 – via link.springer.com.
9. "Stephen Childress". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2021-05-16. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
10. "APS Fellow Archive". Archived from the original on 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2022-06-26.

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