G. I. Taylor
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.
For other people named Geoffrey Taylor, see Geoffrey Taylor (disambiguation).
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
7 March 1886
27 June 1975 (aged 89)
British
Taylor–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
FRS (1919)
Physics
Mathematics
Fluid mechanics
Fluid dynamics
Solid mechanics
Wave theory
Early life and education[edit]
Taylor was born in St. John's Wood, London. His father, Edward Ingram Taylor, was an artist, and his mother, Margaret Boole, came from a family of mathematicians (his aunt was Alicia Boole Stott and his grandfather was George Boole).[3] As a child he was fascinated by science after attending the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, and performed experiments using paint rollers and sticky-tape.
Taylor read mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1905 to 1908. He won several scholarships and prizes at Cambridge, one of which enabled him to study under J. J. Thomson.[4]
Taylor received many awards and honours.[11]