Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (^∗March 7th, 1886 in St. John’s Wood, England; †June 27th, 1975 in Cambridge, England, UK) was a physicist and mathematician with main contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Early Life and Education

His father, Edward Ingram Taylor, was an artist, and his mother, Margaret Boole, came from a family of mathematicians (his aunt was Alicia Boole Stott introducing the term polytope for a convex solid in four or more dimensions, and his grandfather was George Boole working in the field of algebraic logic). It was not surprising that the young Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was fascinated by natural sciences and mathematics after attending the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. He entered the university college in 1899, and, after winning a scholarship, he moved to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1905 (up to 1908). He started with studies in mathematics; later his focus was on physics. He won the Smith’s prize with a work on shock waves and...