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Sir James Lighthill
British mathematician
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist
Sir Horace Lamb
Sir Horace Lamb
English mathematician
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Henri-Émile Bazin
French engineer
Saint-Clément Aqueduct
Henri Pitot
French engineer and inventor
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Jean-Louis-Marie Poiseuille
French physician
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Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
British physicist
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Ludwig Prandtl.
Ludwig Prandtl
German physicist
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Osborne Reynolds
British engineer and physicist
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Jean-Charles de Borda
French mathematician and nautical astronomer

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