Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt is a Russian mathematician.
Education
He graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. North. Kolmogorov. He also received a Doctor of Science from Moscow State University in 1957.
Career
He is a 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 has been Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics since then His areas of research are: 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.
Achievements
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, United States. 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 Nazzionale dei Lincei
1995 – Modesto Panetti Prize and Medal
1997 – Foreign Associate, United States. National Academy of Sciences
1999 – G. I. Taylor Medal, United States. 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.".
Membership
Royal Society; Academia Europaea. National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Timoshenko Medal
Arts and Sciences; Maxwell Medal and Prize; Timoshenko Medal
The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to an individual 'in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics'.
The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to an individual 'in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics'.