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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE was a British physicist, who made instrumental contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
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science · British physicist and mathematician (1886–1975) · physicist · engineer · mathematician · meteorologist · also Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, G. I. Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Taylor
Born 7 March 1886 · Died 27 June 1975 · Q699541
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Published “Array programming with NumPy” in Nature — cited 23,677 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners” in Journal of Biomedical Informatics — cited 21,902 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support” in Journal of Biomedical Informatics — cited 47,018 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,637 times.
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1992· 1 entry
Published “Measuring Service Quality: A Reexamination and Extension” in Journal of Marketing — cited 14,631 times.
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1990· 1 entry
Published “AMPLIFICATION AND DIRECT SEQUENCING OF FUNGAL RIBOSOMAL RNA GENES FOR PHYLOGENETICS” in PCR Protocols — cited 13,969 times.
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1986· 1 entry
Using a single-photon source, and the same result was obtained
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1975· 1 entry
Died 1975-06-27.
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1972· 3 entries
Awarded Theodore von Kármán Prize (1972).
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Which effectively put an end to his work
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Taylor suffered a severe stroke in 1972 which effectively put an end to his work.
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1965· 1 entry
Won James Watt International Medal (1965).
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1962· 1 entry
Won Franklin Medal (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1961).
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1958· 2 entries
Won Timoshenko Medal (1958).
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Awarded Panetti Ferrari Award (1958).
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1956· 1 entry
Won De Morgan Medal (1956).
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1954· 2 entries
Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1954).
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Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1954).
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1952· 1 entry
Continued research for the next twenty years, concentrating on problems that could be attacked using simple equipment
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1951· 1 entry
Won Symons Gold Medal (1951).
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1950· 1 entry
Published two papers estimating the yield of the explosion using the Buckingham Pi theorem, and high speed photography stills from that test, bearing timestamps and physical scale of the blast radius, which had been p
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1944· 2 entries
Won Copley Medal (1944).
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Also received his knighthood and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society
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1936· 1 entry
Presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, on "Ships"
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1934· 1 entry
Taylor, roughly contemporaneously with Michael Polanyi and Egon Orowan, realised that the plastic deformation of ductile materials could be explained in terms of the theory of dislocations developed by Vito Volterra in 1
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1933· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1933).
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1923· 2 entries
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1923).
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Was appointed to a Royal Society research professorship as a Yarrow Research Professor
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1915· 1 entry
Awarded Adams Prize (1915).
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1913· 1 entry
Taylor served as a meteorologist aboard the Ice Patrol vessel Scotia, where his observations formed the basis of his later work on a theoretical model of mixing of the air
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1910· 1 entry
Was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College, and the following year he was appointed to a meteorology post, becoming Reader in Dynamical Meteorology
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1886· 1 entry
Born 1886-03-07.
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