Professor Sir Thomas Cherry, F.A.A., F.R.S., died at his home in Melbourne on 21st November 1966 at the age of 68. He was widely known and highly respected as Australia's most distinguished mathematician and a leader in university affairs. He was associated with the University of Melbourne for most of his life, and latterly with La Trobe University as first chairman of its Academic Planning Board. He was a foundation member and a president of both the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Mathematical Society. His greatest contributions to knowledge were probably made in the mathematics of air flow in trans-sonic flight, simultaneously with Lighthill in Britain; but he also made major contributions to global differential equation theory and general dynamics, and solved some difficult special problems in various branches of applied mathematics. He was a most distinguished teacher, amongst whose students are numbered two Fellows of the Royal Society and several professors in Australian and overseas universities. He was a man of wide interests and great ability, of keen insight and broad vision. He knew much more than he ever wrote, and his influence will live on in the minds of innumerable people with whom he worked.
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