G. I. Taylor

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Born(1886-03-07)7 March 1886
Died27 June 1975(1975-06-27) (aged 89)
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forTaylor–Couette flow
Rayleigh–Taylor instability
Taylor dispersion
Taylor column
Saffman–Taylor instability
Taylor–von Neumann–Sedov blast wave
Taylor microscale
Taylor's dislocation
Taylor cone
Zeldovich–Taylor flow
Taylor–Maccoll flow
Taylor–Culick flow
Taylor–Green vortex
Taylor–Proudman theorem
Taylor number
Taylor scraping flow
Taylor's solution
Taylor's decaying vortices
Taylor's potential flow
Taylor–Caulfield instability
Taylor–Dean flow
Taylor–Goldstein equation
Taylor impact test
Taylor–Melcher leaky dielectric model
CQR anchor
Eddy diffusion
Entrainment
Flow plasticity theory
Homogeneous isotropic turbulence
AwardsFRS (1919)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Mathematics
Fluid mechanics
Fluid dynamics
Solid mechanics
Wave theory
Academic advisorsJ. J. Thomson[1][2]
Doctoral studentsGeorge Batchelor
Philip Drazin
Albert E. Green
Francis Bretherton
Rosa M. Morris
Stewart Turner

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist and mathematician, who made contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.

  1. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "G. I. Taylor", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  2. ^ G. I. Taylor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project