Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (Russian: Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018)[1] was a Russian mathematician.
Grigory Barenblatt
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Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблатт
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| Born | (1927-07-10)July 10, 1927 |
| Died | June 22, 2018(2018-06-22) (aged 90) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University (Ph.D) |
| Awards | Lagrange Medal (1995), G. I. Taylor Medal (1999), Timoshenko Medal (2005) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences. University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | On the Motion of Suspended Particles in a Turbulent Flow (1953) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrey Kolmogorov Boris Levitan |
Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University,[2] Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov.[2][3]
Barenblatt also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State University in 1957.[2] He was an emeritus Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley[4] and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[4] He was G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994[4] and he was Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics.[4] His areas of research were:[4]