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Osborne Reynolds

1842 - 1912

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Osborne Reynolds (23 August 1842 – 21 February 1912) was an Irish-born British innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics. Separately, his studies of heat transfer between solids and fluids brought improvements in boiler and condenser design. He spent his entire career at what is now the University of Manchester. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Osborne Reynolds is the 265th most popular physicist (up from 282nd in 2019), the 785th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 811th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Physicist.

Osborne Reynolds is most famous for his work on the theory of turbulent flow. He discovered that the speed of the fluid in a turbulent fluid is proportional to the square root of the depth of the fluid.

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Among physicists, Osborne Reynolds ranks 265 out of 851. Before him are Chien-Shiung Wu, Serge Haroche, Julian Schwinger, Toshihide Maskawa, Carlo Rubbia, and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck. After him are Anthony James Leggett, Johannes Rydberg, Jack Steinberger, Yang Chen-Ning, David J. Wineland, and Pierre Agostini.

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Among people born in 1842, Osborne Reynolds ranks 17. Before him are Josef Breuer, Camille Flammarion, Paul Lafargue, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Arrigo Boito, and Hermann Cohen. After him are James Dewar, Vasily Vereshchagin, Georg Brandes, Sophus Lie, Okita Sōji, and Ambrose Bierce. Among people deceased in 1912, Osborne Reynolds ranks 22. Before him are Lawrence Alma-Tadema, W. T. Stead, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Johann Martin Schleyer, and Benjamin Guggenheim. After him are William McMaster Murdoch, John Jacob Astor IV, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Nettie Stevens, Bolesław Prus, and Nogi Maresuke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Osborne Reynolds ranks 785 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453), Fred Perry (1909), John Bunyan (1628), James Callaghan (1912), Andy Cole (1971), and Jean Simmons (1929). After him are Henry Every (1659), Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), George Mallory (1886), James Dewar (1842), William McMaster Murdoch (1873), and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Osborne Reynolds ranks 34. Before him are James Jeans (1877), David Brewster (1781), Andrew Huxley (1917), John Cockcroft (1897), William Shockley (1910), and C. P. Snow (1905). After him are Anthony James Leggett (1938), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Peter Mansfield (1933), Charles Wheatstone (1802), Freeman Dyson (1923), and Dennis W. Sciama (1926).

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