3 lives in this collection worked in solid mechanics, from 1875 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: fluid mechanics, turbulence. All fields
Founder of boundary-layer theory and of modern aerodynamics, who built the Göttingen school of fluid mechanics and served the Nazi air ministry.
fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, boundary-layer theory
Hungarian-American aerodynamicist of the vortex street, the momentum integral and turbulence theory, who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and shaped US and NATO aeronautical research.
aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, turbulence
Cambridge physicist who founded the statistical theory of turbulence and the dislocation theory of plasticity, and whose name attaches to Taylor vortices, Taylor dispersion, the Rayleigh–Taylor instability and the Taylor cone.
fluid mechanics, turbulence, hydrodynamic stability