The G. I. Taylor Professorship of Fluid Mechanics is a

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at the

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. It was founded in 1992 and named in honor of G. I. Taylor, after a fundraising campaign by

George Batchelor George Keith Batchelor FRS (8 March 1920 – 30 March 2000) was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. He was for many years a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and was founding head of the ...

Philip Saffman Philip Geoffrey Saffman FRS (19 March 1931 – 17 August 2008) was a mathematician and the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Applied Mathematics and Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.. Education and early life Saffman was ...

, a student of Batchelor and Taylor, was offered the chair in the 1990s. However, he turned it down. He stated later that he was "very tempted" by the offer, but that he was stopped by the difficulty of moving his family from California to England.

List of G. I. Taylor Professors of Fluid Mechanics

* 1992 – 1994

Grigory Barenblatt 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 Me ...

* 1996 – 2009

Tim Pedley Timothy John Pedley (born 23 March 1942) is a British mathematician and a former G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge. His principal research interest is the application of fluid mechanics to biology and med ...

FRS * 2010 – 2017,

Paul Linden Paul Frederick Linden (born 29 January 1947) is a mathematician specialising in fluid dynamics. He was the third G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, inaugural Blasker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of En ...

FRS * 2017 – present,

Rich Kerswell Richard Kerswell FRS is a British fluid mechanics scientist and the G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

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