Founders of Modern Fluid Dynamics

Ludwig Prandtl
(1875-1953)
G. I. Taylor
(1886-1975)
(Biographical sketches of Prandtl and Taylor are given in Appendix C.)
Photograph of Ludwig Prandtl is reprinted with permission from the Annual Review of
Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 19. Copyright 1987 by Annual Reviews: www.AnnualReviews.org.
Photograph of Geoffrey Ingram Taylor at age 69 in his laboratory reprinted with
permission from the AIP Emilio Segre` Visual Archieves. Copyright, American Institute of
Physics, 2000.