Editing Grigory Barenblatt

{{Short description|Russian mathematician (1927–2018)}}
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| thesis_title =        On the Motion of Suspended Particles in a Turbulent Flow
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'''Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt''' ({{langx|ru|Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат}}; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018)<ref>[http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/61141.html Grigory I. Barenblatt]</ref> was a Russian [[mathematician]].

==Education==
Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from [[Moscow State University]],<ref name=europeaeaCVPage>{{cite web|title=Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt - Curriculum vitae, Members directory, Academia Europaea|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Barenblatt_Grigory_Isaakovich/CV|access-date=2017-02-15}}</ref> Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of [[A. N. Kolmogorov]].<ref name=europeaeaCVPage/><ref name=mathgene>{{MathGenealogy|id=17496}}</ref>

==Career and research==
Barenblatt also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State University in 1957.<ref name=europeaeaCVPage/> He was an emeritus Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the [[University of California, Berkeley]]<ref name=europeaeaPage>{{cite web|title=Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt, member directory, Academia Europaea|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Barenblatt_Grigory_Isaakovich|access-date=2017-02-15}}</ref> and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]].<ref name=europeaeaPage/> He was [[G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] from 1992 to 1994<ref name=europeaeaPage/> and he was Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics.<ref name=europeaeaPage/> His areas of research were:<ref name=europeaeaPage/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-09 |title=Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt {{!}} American Academy of Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/grigory-isaakovich-barenblatt |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=www.amacad.org |language=en}}</ref>

# [[Fracture mechanics]]
# The theory of [[fluid]] and [[gas]] [[Fluid dynamics|flow]]s in [[porosity|porous media]]
# The [[mechanics]] of a non-classical deformable [[solid]]s
# [[Turbulence]]
# [[Self-similarity|Self-similarities]], [[nonlinear wave]]s and [[intermediate asymptotics]].

==Awards and honors==
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* 1975 – Foreign Honorary Member, [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618085806/http://amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf |archive-date=2006-06-18 |url-status=live|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=May 17, 2011}}</ref><ref name=RoyalSL>{{cite web|title=Grigory Barenblatt, Fellows Directory, The Royal Society|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/grigory-barenblatt-11034/|access-date=Feb 15, 2017}}</ref>
* 1984 – Foreign Member, Danish Center of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics<ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 1988 – Foreign Member, Polish Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics<ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 1989 – Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden<ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 1992 – Foreign Associate, U.S. [[National Academy of Engineering]]<ref name=RoyalSL/><ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 1993 – Fellow, [[Cambridge Philosophical Society]]<ref name=RoyalSL/><ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 1993 – Member, Academia Europaea<ref name=RoyalSL/><ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 1994 – Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; (since 1999, Honorary Fellow)<ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 1995 – Lagrange Medal, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei<ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 1995 – Modesto Panetti Prize and Medal<ref name=RoyalSL/><ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 1996 - Visiting [[Miller Institute|Miller]] Professorship - University of California Berkeley<ref name=europeaeaCVPage/>
* 1997 – Foreign Associate, U.S. [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]<ref name=RoyalSL/><ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 1999 – [[G. I. Taylor]] Medal,<ref name=RoyalSL/><ref name=europeaeaPage/> U.S. Society of Engineering Science
* 1999 – [[J. C. Maxwell]] Medal and Prize,<ref name=RoyalSL/> International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics<ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 2000 – Foreign Member, [[Royal Society of London]]<ref name=RoyalSL/><ref name=europeaeaPage/>
* 2005 – [[Timoshenko Medal]], [[American Society of Mechanical Engineers]],<ref name=RoyalSL/><ref name=europeaeaPage/> "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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crd.lbl.gov/news-and-publications/news/2005/crd-s-barenblatt-wins-timoshenko-medal-for-applied-mechanics|title=CRD's Barenblatt Wins Timoshenko Medal for Applied Mechanics|publisher=Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory Operated by the University of California|access-date=2017-02-15}}</ref>"
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{MathGenealogy|id=17496}}
* [http://math.berkeley.edu/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=downloadFile&JAS_File_id=1461 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).

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[[Category:G. I. Taylor Professors of Fluid Mechanics]]