The Otto Laporte Award (1972–2003) was an annual award by the

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(APS) to "recognize outstanding contributions to

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" and to honour

Otto Laporte Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fro ...

(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 Eli most commonly refers to: * Eli (name), a given name, nickname and surname * Eli (biblical figure) Eli or ELI may also refer to: Film * Eli (2015 film), ''Eli'' (2015 film), a Tamil film * Eli (2019 film), ''Eli'' (2019 film), an American hor ...

* 1998: David G. Crighton * 1997:

Marvin Emanuel Goldstein Marvin may refer to: __NOTOC__ Geography ;In the United States * Marvyn, Alabama, also spelled Marvin, an unincorporated community * Marvin, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Marvin, North Carolina, a village * Marvin, South Dakota, a town * R ...

* 1996: Donald Coles * 1995:

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan is an aerospace scientist, fluid dynamics, and applied physicist whose research includes physics and applied mathematics. He studies turbulence, nonlinear and statistical physics, astrophysical fluid mechanics, and c ...

* 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. B ...

* 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 Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

* 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

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Otto Laporte Award
American Physical Society Awards of the American Physical Society Fluid dynamics Awards established in 1972 {{fluiddynamics-stub

Recipients

See also

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