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Born August 23, 1842 • Belfast • Northern Ireland
Died February 21, 1912 (aged 69) • England
Subjects Of Study Reynolds number • condensation • fluid mechanics • fluid • heat transfer • turbulent flow • lubrication
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Jacques Piccard
Swiss oceanic engineer
Sir Horace Lamb
Sir Horace Lamb
English mathematician
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Henri-Émile Bazin
French engineer
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist
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Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
British physicist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
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Jack Kilby
American engineer
Shockley
William B. Shockley
American physicist
Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Dutch physicist
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Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist
Ludwig Prandtl.
Ludwig Prandtl
German physicist
Guericke, engraving by C. Galle, 1649, after a portrait by Anselmus von Hulle
Otto von Guericke
Prussian physicist, engineer, and philosopher
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Lloyd Viel Berkner
American physicist and engineer
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William Froude
British engineer
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Louis-Paul Cailletet
French physicist
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William John Macquorn Rankine
Scottish engineer
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James David Forbes
Scottish physicist

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