Grigory Barenblatt

Grigory Barenblatt

Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (born July 10, 1927) is a Russian mathematician. He graduated in 1950 from University of Moscow, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from University of Moscow under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov. He also received a D.Sc. from University of Moscow in 1957. He is a Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994 and he has been Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics since then.

His areas of research are:

He usually publishes the result of his studies in the Quarterly Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.

His awards and honors include:

1975 – Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1984 – Foreign Member, Danish Center of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics
1988 – Foreign Member, Polish Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics
1989 – Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 – Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
1993 – Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society
1993 – Member, Academia Europaea
1994 – Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; (since 1999, Honorary Fellow)
1995 – Lagrange Medal, Accademia Nazzionale dei Lincei
1995 – Modesto Panetti Prize and Medal
1997 – Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
1999 – G. I. Taylor Medal, U.S. Society of Engineering Science
1999 – J. C. Maxwell Medal and Prize, International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2000 – Foreign Member, Royal Society of London
2005 – Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, "for seminal contributions to nearly every area of solid and fluid mechanics, including fracture mechanics, turbulence, stratified flows, flames, flow in porous media, and the theory and application of intermediate asymptotics."

[edit] External links

Applied mechanics: an age old science perpetually in rebirth (pdf). The Timoshenko Medal acceptance speech by Grigory Barenblatt (to be published by ASME in summer 2006).