264:(AMS). This prize was awarded "for an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense." Whitham was honored "for his broad contributions to the understanding of fluid dynamical phenomena and his innovative contributions to the methodology through which that understanding can be constructed".
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Lighthill, M. J.; Whitham, G. B. (1955). "On kinematic waves II. A theory of traffic flow on long crowded roads".
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