| Authorised form of name | Batchelor; George Keith (1920 - 2000) |
| Dates | 1920 - 2000 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Place of birth | Melbourne, Australia |
| Date of birth | 08/03/1920 |
| Date of death | 30/03/2000 |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Research field | Turbulence |
| Fluid mechanics |
| Activity | Education:
Melbourne University
Career:
Fellow of Trinity (1947); Founding Head of Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University (1959-1983); instrumental in establishing the European Mechanics Committee, and chair of the Committee (1964-1987)
Memberships:
Australian Academy of Science
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1957 |
| Age at election | 37 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1986-1987
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1988 |
| Source | Sources:
Death date from The Times, 05 April 2000; Times obituary 12 April 2000
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2002 vol 48 pp 25-41, plate, by H K Moffatt FRS |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/66527654 |
| Code | NA4298 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1957/04 | Batchelor, George Keith: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/TGRS/8551 | Batchelor, George Keith | 1989 |
| IM/GA/WRS/8311 | Batchelor, George Keith | March 1959 |
| RR/69/14 | Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Decay of vorticity in isotropic turbulence' by George Keith Batchelor and A A Townsend | 1946 |
| RR/71/23 | Referee's report by an unnamed referee, on a paper 'The role of big eddies in homogeneous turbulence' by George Keith Batchelor | [1948] |
| RR/70/21 | Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'Decay of isotropic turbulence in the initial period' by George Keith Batchelor and Albert Alan Townsend | 1947 |
| RR/72/18 | Memorandum from D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the spontaneous magnetic field in a conducting liquid in turbulent motion' by George Keith Batchelor to Douglas Rayner Hartree | 25 November 1949 |
| RR/71/24 | Referee's report by Sydney Goldstein, on a paper 'Decay of turbulence in the final period' by George Keith Batchelor and Albert Alan Townsend | [1948] |
| RR/72/19 | Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'The nature of turbulent motion at large wave-numbers' by George Keith Batchelor and Albert Alan Townsend | 1949 |
| RR/75/331 | Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'The effect of homogenous turbulence on material lines and surfaces' by George Keith Batchelor | 26 February 1952 |