The Otto Laporte Award (1972–2003) was an annual award by the
American Physical Society (APS) to "recognize outstanding contributions to
fluid dynamics" and to honour
Otto Laporte
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(1902–1971). It was established as the Otto Laporte Memorial Lectureship by the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics in 1972, and became an APS award in 1985. The Otto Laporte Award was merged into the
Fluid Dynamics Prize
The Fluid Dynamics Prize is a prize that has been awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) since 1979. The recipient is chosen for "outstanding achievement in fluid dynamics research". The prize is currently valued at . In 2004, the ...
in 2004, in order to obtain one major prize in fluid dynamics by the APS.
Recipients
* 2003:
Norman J. Zabusky
* 2002:
Andrea Prosperetti
Andrea Prosperetti is the Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, the Berkhoff Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and an elected member of the National Academy of ...
* 2001:
John Kim
* 2000:
Hassan Aref
Hassan Aref (Arabic: حسن عارف), (28 September 1950 – 9 September 2011) was the Reynolds Metals Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, and the Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at the Technical Univ ...
* 1999:
Eli Reshotko
* 1998:
David G. Crighton
* 1997:
Marvin Emanuel Goldstein
* 1996:
Donald Coles
* 1995:
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
* 1994:
Philip G. Saffman
* 1993:
Robert Kraichnan
* 1992:
William C. Reynolds
* 1991:
Steven A. Orszag
* 1990:
Tony Maxworthy
Tony Maxworthy (May 1933 in Ealing – 8 March 2013) was a British-American physicist noted for work in geophysical fluid dynamics. He had won the Fluid Dynamics Prize, the Otto Laporte Award, and others.
Maxworthy obtained his bachelor's degre ...
* 1989:
Chia-Shun Yih
Chia-Shun Yih (; July 25, 1918 – April 25, 1997) was the Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He made many significant contributions to fluid mechanics. Yih was also a seal artist.
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* 1988:
Akiva Yaglom
Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom (russian: Аки́ва Моисе́евич Ягло́м; 6 March 1921 – 13 December 2007) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the sta ...
* 1987:
John Trevor Stuart
* 1986:
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Denman Van Dyke (August 1, 1922 – May 10, 2010) was Professor of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He was known for his work in fluid dynamics, especially with respect to the use of perturbation anal ...
* 1985:
Hans W. Liepmann
* 1984:
Sir James Lighthill
Sir Michael James Lighthill (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics and for writing the Lighthill report on artificial intelligence.
Biography
J ...
* 1983:
John W. Miles
* 1982:
Peter Wegener
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* 1981:
H. W. Emmons
* 1980:
R. Byron Bird
* 1979:
Stanley Corrsin
* 1978:
Cecil E. Leith, Jr.
* 1977:
Y. C. Fung
* 1976:
George F. Carrier
* 1975:
Russell J. Donnelly
Russell James Donnelly (born 16 April 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, died 13 June 2015 in Eugene, Oregon) was a Canadian-American physicist known for his work on classical and quantum fluid dynamics. He connected the fields of low temperature physic ...
* 1974:
J. M. Burgers
* 1973:
Chia C. Lin
* 1972:
Richard G. Fowler
See also
*
List of physics awards
This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.
The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a li ...
External links
Otto Laporte Award American Physical Society
Awards of the American Physical Society
Fluid dynamics
Awards established in 1972
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