Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018)Grigory I. Barenblatt was a Russian mathematician.
Education Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov.
Career and research Barenblatt also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State University in 1957. He was an emeritus Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994 and he was Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. His areas of research were:
Fracture mechanics The theory of fluid and gas flows in porous media The mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids Turbulence Self-similarities, nonlinear waves and intermediate asymptotics.
Family
His mother was Nadezhda Veniaminovna Kagan (1900–1938), a microbiologist and virologist who worked on tick-borne encephalitis.
His father was Isaak Grigoryevich Barenblat, a well-known Moscow endocrinologist and co-author of the two-volume Therapeutic Handbook, which was reprinted several times between 1937 and 1946.
His younger maternal half-brother was mathematician Yakov Grigoryevich Sinai.
Awards and honors
1975 – Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1984 – Foreign Member, Danish Center of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics 1988 – Foreign Member, Polish Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics 1989 – Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 1992 – Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Engineering 1993 – Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society 1993 – Member, Academia Europaea 1994 – Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; (since 1999, Honorary Fellow) 1995 – Lagrange Medal, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1995 – Modesto Panetti Prize and Medal 1996 - Visiting Miller Professorship - University of California Berkeley 1997 – Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences 1999 – G. I. Taylor Medal, U.S. Society of Engineering Science 1999 – J. C. Maxwell Medal and Prize, International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2000 – Foreign Member, Royal Society of London 2005 – Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, "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."
References
External links
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).