Grigory Barenblatt

Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (Russian: Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018)[1] was a Russian mathematician.

Grigory Barenblatt
Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблатт
Born	July 10, 1927 Moscow, Russian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	June 22, 2018 (aged 90)
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Moscow State University (Ph.D)
Awards	Lagrange Medal (1995), G. I. Taylor Medal (1999), Timoshenko Medal (2005)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences. University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	On the Motion of Suspended Particles in a Turbulent Flow (1953)
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Kolmogorov Boris Levitan

Education

Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University,[2] Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov.[2][3]

Career and research

Barenblatt also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State University in 1957.[2] He was an emeritus Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley[4] and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[4] He was G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994[4] and he was Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics.[4] His areas of research were:[4]

1. Fracture mechanics
2. The theory of fluid and gas flows in porous media
3. The mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids
4. Turbulence
5. Self-similarities, nonlinear waves and intermediate asymptotics.

Awards and honors

• 1975 – Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences[5][6]
• 1984 – Foreign Member, Danish Center of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics[4]
• 1988 – Foreign Member, Polish Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics[4]
• 1989 – Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden[4]
• 1992 – Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Engineering[6][4]
• 1993 – Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society[6][4]
• 1993 – Member, Academia Europaea[6][4]
• 1994 – Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; (since 1999, Honorary Fellow)[4]
• 1995 – Lagrange Medal, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei[4]
• 1995 – Modesto Panetti Prize and Medal[6][4]
• 1996 - Visiting Miller Professorship - University of California Berkeley[2]
• 1997 – Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences[6][4]
• 1999 – G. I. Taylor Medal,[6][4] U.S. Society of Engineering Science
• 1999 – J. C. Maxwell Medal and Prize,[6] International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics[4]
• 2000 – Foreign Member, Royal Society of London[6][4]
• 2005 – Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers,[6][4] "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.[7]"

References

1. Grigory I. Barenblatt
2. "Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt - Curriculum vitae, Members directory, Academia Europaea". Retrieved 2017-02-15.
3. Grigory Barenblatt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. "Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt, member directory, Academia Europaea". Retrieved 2017-02-15.
5. "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
6. "Grigory Barenblatt, Fellows Directory, The Royal Society". Retrieved Feb 15, 2017.
7. "CRD's Barenblatt Wins Timoshenko Medal for Applied Mechanics". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory Operated by the University of California. Retrieved 2017-02-15.

External links

• Grigory Barenblatt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• 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).