Otto Laporte

Otto Laporte

male, deceased (1971)
Otto Laporte (July 23, 1902 in Mainz, Germany - March 28, 1971 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a German-born American physicist who made contributions...
Osborne Reynolds

Osborne Reynolds

male, deceased (1912)
Osborne Reynolds (23 August, 1842-21 February, 1912) was a British fluid dynamics engineer. He was born in Belfast, Ireland and died in Watchet in...
George Gabriel Stokes

George Gabriel Stokes

male, deceased (1903)
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (13 August 1819-1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important...
James Glimm

James Glimm

male (New York, New York, United States)
James Gilbert Glimm is an American mathematical physicist, and Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his Ph.D....
Peter Lax

Peter Lax

male, 83 years old
Peter David Lax (born May 1, 1926, Budapest, Hungary) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He...
Bram van Leer

Bram van Leer

male
Bram van Leer is professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, USA. He specialises in "computational fluid dynamics" CFD,...
Keith Moffatt

Keith Moffatt

male, 74 years old
Henry Keith Moffatt FRS FRSE (born 1935) is a Scottish physicist with principal research interests in the field of fluid dynamics.
Alexandre Chorin

Alexandre Chorin

male
Alexandre J. Chorin is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in applied mathematics. Chorin was one of the...
Vilhelm Bjerknes

Vilhelm Bjerknes

male, deceased (1951)
Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes (March 14, 1862 - April 9, 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern...
Ascher H. Shapiro

Ascher H. Shapiro

male
Ascher H. Shapiro was a professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He grew up in New York City. He was appointed assistant professor at MIT in...