G. I. Taylor

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Born	7 March 1886; St. John's Wood, Middlesex, England
Died	27 June 1975 (aged 89); Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for	Taylor–Couette flow; Rayleigh–Taylor instability; Taylor dispersion; Taylor column; Saffman–Taylor instability; Taylor–von Neumann–Sedov blast wave; Taylor microscale; Taylor's dislocation; Taylor cone; Zeldovich–Taylor flow; Taylor–Maccoll flow; Taylor–Culick flow; Taylor–Green vortex; Taylor–Proudman theorem; Taylor number; Taylor scraping flow; Taylor's solution; Taylor's decaying vortices; Taylor–Culick speed; Taylor's potential flow; Taylor–Caulfield instability; Taylor–Dean flow; Taylor–Goldstein equation; Taylor impact test; Taylor–Melcher leaky dielectric model; CQR anchor; Eddy diffusion; Entrainment; Flow plasticity theory; Homogeneous isotropic turbulence
Awards	FRS (1919)
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics; Mathematics; Fluid mechanics ; Fluid dynamics ; Solid mechanics ; Wave theory
Academic advisors	J. J. Thomson
Doctoral students	George Batchelor; Philip Drazin; Albert E. Green; Francis Bretherton; Rosa M. Morris; Stewart Turner

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist, who made instrumental contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.