Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
George Batchelor
Born: March 8, 1920
Died: March 30, 2000 (aged 80)
Bio: George Keith Batchelor FRS was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. He was for many years the Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and was founding head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Known for:
- An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics (1967)
- The theory of homogeneous turbulence (1953)
- The life and legacy of G.I. Taylor (1996)