Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM (7 March 1886 27 June 1975) was a British physicist and

mathematician, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-
time student, George Batchelor, described him as "one of the most notable scientists of this (the
20th) century".
In 1923 he was appointed to a Royal Society research professorship as a Yarrow Research
Professor. This enabled him to stop teaching, which he had been doing for the previous four
years, and which he both disliked and had no great aptitude for. It was in this period that he did
his most wide-ranging work on fluid mechanics and solid mechanics, including research on the
deformation of crystalline materials which followed from his war work at Farnborough. He also
produced another major contribution to turbulent flow, where he introduced a new approach
through a statistical study of velocity fluctuations.