Person

Batchelor, George Keith (1920 - 2000)

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Born
8 March 1920
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
30 March 2000
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Occupation
Applied mathematician and University Administrator

Summary

George Batchelor was a pioneer in the field of fluid dynamics, particularly turbulence and suspension mechanics. In 1956 he founded the Journal of fluid mechanics, a widely admired and influential journal which he edited for over 40 years. He co-founded in 1964 the European Mechanic Committee, the forerunner of the European Society of Mechanics. After several years as Research Officer with the CSIR Division of Aeronautics in Melbourne, he was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Science and Industry Endowment Fund to study at the University of Cambridge. He returned to the University in 1948, being Professor of Applied Mathematics from 1964 to 1983, and Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from 1959.

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1941 - 1944
Career position - Research Officer, CSIR Division of Aeronautics
1944
Career position - Research Scholar, University of Melbourne
1944 - 1945
Award - Research Fellowship, Science and Industry Endowment Fund, to study fluid dynamics relating to turbulence and instability of laminar flow at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
1946
Career position - Research Officer, CSIR Division of Aeronautics
1948 - 1959
Career position - Lecturer, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
1951
Award - Adams Prize, University of Cambridge
1956
Career position - Founding Editor, Journal of fluid mechanics
1959 - 1964
Career position - Reader in Fluid Dynamics, University of Cambridge
1959 - 1983
Career position - Head of Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
1964 - 1983
Career position - Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Cambridge
1983 - ?
Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge
1986
Award - Agostinelli Prize, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
1988
Award - Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1988
Award - Royal Medal, The Royal Society, London
1989 - 2000
Award - Corresponding Member, Australian Academy of Science
1994
Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

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  • Moffatt, H. K., 'George Keith Batchelor, 1920-2000' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details

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  • Smith, Susan and Spurling, Thomas H., 'The Science and Industry Endowment Fund: supporting the development of Australian science', Historical Records of Australian Science, 26 (1) (2015), 58-83, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14027. Details

McCarthy, G.J. and Helen Cohn

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