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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 7 March 1886–27 June 1975

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

G. K. Batchelor
G. K. Batchelor
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW
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Abstract

G. I. Taylor was a happy man who spent a long life doing what he wanted most to do and doing it supremely well. He was a natural scientist whose character and activities were perfectly matched, and that allowed the fullest use of his creative talents. This short article is intended to help the understanding of G. I. Taylor's approach to his research by providing some information about the man and his life, in particular the major events in his early adult years which determined the direction of much of his subsequent research. A list of the now rather numerous articles about the man and his family and his work is appended.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 173 , December 1986 , pp. 1 - 14
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© 1986 Cambridge University Press

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References

[1]1920 Navigation notes on a passage from Burnham-on-Crouch to Oban. Yachting Monthly.
[2]1924 Extracts from the log o. Frolic. Roy. Cruising Club J. pp. 85–105.
[3]1927 Across the Arctic circle in. Frolic. Roy. Cruising Club J. pp. 9–26. (Frolic was a 19-ton cutter 48 feet long. For his account of this voyage up the coast of Norway to the Lofoten Islands, which G.I. made with his wife and a friend, he was awarded the Royal Cruising Club Cup for 1927. G.I. wrote later that he was ‘prouder of this award than any other in my career’.)
[4]1931 Round Ireland i. Frolic. Roy. Cruising Club J. pp. 213–225.
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[16]1945 Trying out the bomb. The Listener, 16 Aug.
[17]1959 The present position in the theory of turbulent diffusion. Proc. Symp. on Atmospheric Diffusion and Air Pollution, Academic Press, pp. 101–111.
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[20]1970 Some early ideas about turbulence. J. Fluid Mech. 41, pp. 3–11.
[21]1974 The history of an invention. Bull. Inst. Math. Applic. 10, pp. 367–368. (This note is about the CQR anchor.)
[22]1921 Scientific methods in aeronautics. Aeronaut. J. 25, pp. 474–491.
[23]1966 When aeronautical science was young. J. Roy. Aero. Soc. 70, pp. 108–113.
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[26]1971 Aeronautical experience before 1919. Lester Gardner Lecture at M.I.T.; typescript only.
[27]1950 Address to the Accademia dei Lincei on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Vito Volterra; typescript only.
[28]1952 Recollections of a scientist. Lecture given at one or more universities in Australia; typescript only.
[29]1952 A scientist remembers. Hitchcock Lecture at the University of California; typescript only.
[30]1953 Rheology for mathematicians. Presidential address in Proc. 2nd Intern. Cong. Rheology, Butterworths, pp. 1–6.
[31]1956 An applied mathematician's apology. Address in reply to the presentation of the De Morgan Medal from the London Mathematical Society; typescript only.
[32]1959 Is there still scope for simple methods in science? Davidson Memorial Lecture at Stevens Institute of Technology, New York; typescript only.
[33]1963 Scientific diversions. Article in Man, Science, Learning and Education, Rice University Semicentennial Publication, pp. 137–148.
[34]1969 Amateur scientists. Univ. Michigan Quart. Rev. 8, pp. 107–113.
Articles about G. I. Taylor G. K. Batchelor 1964 Close-up: Sir Geoffrey Taylor. Trinity Review.
1975 An unfinished dialogue with G. I. Taylor. J. Fluid Mech. 70, 625–638.
1976 G. I. Taylor as I knew him. Advances in Appl. Mech. 16, 1–8.
1976 Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 1886–1975. Biog. Mem. Fell. Roy. Soc. 22, 565–633.
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