G. I. Taylor |Geoffrey Ingram Taylor| Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
7 March 1886| St. John's Wood, London |Died||27 June 1975 |Alma
mater||Trinity College, Cambridge| |Academic advisors||J. J.
Thomson| |Doctoral students||George Batchelor |Known for||Fluid
dynamics |Notable awards||Knight Bachelor Order of Merit 1962
Franklin Medal Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM (7 March 1886 – 27
June 1975) was a British physicist, mathematician and expert on
fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time
student, George Batchelor, described him as "one of the most
notable scientists of this (the 20th) century". Taylor was born
in St. John's Wood, London. 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 and
grandfather George Boole). Taylor followed in the latter's
footsteps reading mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. As
a child he had become fascinated by science after attending the
Royal Institution Christm