Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (russian: Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian mathematician.

Education

Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of

A. N. Kolmogorov Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov ( rus, Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ kəlmɐˈɡorəf, a=Ru-Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.ogg, 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Sovi ...

Career and research

Barenblatt also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State University in 1957. He was an emeritus Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics,

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States Department of Energy National Labs, United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, t ...

. He was

G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics The G. I. Taylor Professorship of Fluid Mechanics is a professorship in fluid mechanics at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1992 and named in honor of G. I. Taylor, after a fundraising campaign by George Batchelor. Philip Saffman, a ...

at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994 and he was Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. His areas of research were: #

Fracture mechanics Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials. It uses methods of analytical solid mechanics to calculate the driving force on a crack and those of experimental solid mechanics t ...

# The theory of

fluid In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that continuously deforms (''flows'') under an applied shear stress, or external force. They have zero shear modulus, or, in simpler terms, are substances which cannot resist any shear ...

and gas

flow Flow may refer to: Science and technology * Fluid flow, the motion of a gas or liquid * Flow (geomorphology), a type of mass wasting or slope movement in geomorphology * Flow (mathematics), a group action of the real numbers on a set * Flow (psych ...

s in porous media # The mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids # Turbulence # Self-similarities, nonlinear waves and intermediate asymptotics.

Awards and honors

* 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 The Cambridge Philosophical Society (CPS) is a scientific society at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1819. The name derives from the medieval use of the word philosophy to denote any research undertaken outside the fields of law ...

* 1993 – Member, Academia Europaea * 1994 – Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; (since 1999, Honorary Fellow) * 1995 – Lagrange Medal, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei * 1995 – Modesto Panetti Prize and Medal * 1996 - Visiting Miller Professorship - University of California Berkeley * 1997 – Foreign Associate, U.S.

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

* 1999 –

G. I. Taylor Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist and mathematician, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time student, George Batchelor, described him as ...

Medal, U.S. Society of Engineering Science * 1999 –

J. C. Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and ligh ...

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 The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...

, "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."

References

External links

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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). {{DEFAULTSORT:Barenblatt, Grigory 1927 births 2018 deaths 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fluid dynamicists Foreign Members of the Royal Society Jewish scientists Members of Academia Europaea Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Moscow State University alumni Mathematicians from Moscow Russian Jews University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering Professors of the University of Cambridge