• Feng Kang ( Academy of Sciences, PRC ): One of the founders of FEM and BEM. Pioneer of computationl science. The prestigious Feng Kang Prize of scientific computing is named after him ( CW SHU@Brown /T HOU@Caltech/ JC Xu@PSU ).

• Anthony Jameson : Anthony Jameson's profound influence on the field is at the center of many of CFD developments (including (1) the simple but elegant and powerful Jameson's scheme; (2) Multigrid for hyperbolic equations; (3) FV unstructured grid methods; (4) Floxx Codes ect). ....They represent triumphs of the human mind. Fitting for the western world, it is the individual, and not the large organization, that brings forth such achievments. In looking back at several decades of work, we may be tempted to borrow a quote from Churchill : "Never in the history of CFD have so few (in this case one) done so much with so little."

• Brian E. Launder : Father of  most popular turbulence models. On some of his older models that are still producing surprisingly good results in some of the most unbelivably complex cases, he jokingly said: " it's like a chain-smoking centenarian proudly puffing off the celebration of his one-hundredth birthday party."

Qian XueSen ( more info ) (cn version | QXS Story ) ( Tsien revisited | CIT Achives | Academy of Sciences ): The pioneer in transonic/supersonic aerodynamics (with Von Karman ): the Tsien formula, pioneer of space travel (lunarbase) &       supersonic flight. Co-founder/Director of NASA's JPL | JPL101 (also pioneer in control theory & systems science (his classic book  in the field) ) and China's father of Aerospace Industry.  Specialized Database on Qian XueSen at  the Qian XueSen Library , XJTU . Tsien's partial publication lists 1) in SREAD database 2) in NACA database .  Dragon Space | Go Taikonaut ! |   KuoYH | A Book on Tsien |  Manned Space Programme

• Osborne Reynolds : The Scientist and  Pioneer in Turbulence Research . The " Reynolds equation, Reynolds number, Reynolds analogy, Reynolds averaging and Reynolds stress" in Fluid machanics are all named after him ( Osborne Reynolds Centenary Volume by the Royal Society ). (Other well known Mathematicians and Physicists:Noble prize winners ( history ) at Manchester. List of Noble prize winners from Manchester Chemistry and Economics ).    Reynolds' scientific papers and Reynolds' engineering papers .

• Niels Bohr : one of the founders of Quantum Mechanics (The first to develop the theory) (Niels Bohr library by AIP ) ; Einstein : "God does not play dice."  Einstein: "God is not malicious. " Bohr: " Einstein, stop telling God what to do . " He and his Brother, well-known mathematician, Harald Bohr were also great footballers. Niels' son, Aage Bohr,  is also a noble prize winner . Science jokes about Niels Bohr . Niels Bohr's works in Chinese.

• Alan Turin : founder and pioneer of Computer Science and artificial intelligence. He is also a brillint Code breaker (or hacker) and strange visionary . The "Turing machines" and "Turing test" are named after him. The ACM Turing award , the "nobel prize of computer science", is also named after him. Alan Turing Memorial Sculture at Sackville Park, Manchester.

• Lewis Richardson : The founder and pioneer of CFD. The first person to develop and use CFD before the electronic computer age ( It was done by hand for weather prediction!! "Weather Prediction by Numerical Process" ). The " Richardson number" in fluid mechanics and "Richardson extrapolation or the Richardson method" in numerical analysis are named after him. Richardson's publication list .  His turbulence rhyme has become a classic:
 
Big whirls have little whirls
That feed on their velocity
Little whirls have lesser whirls
and so on to viscosity
(C) L. Richardson.
 
•   James Lighthill was one of the most influential applied mathematicians of the 20th century . He made important contributions to the modern developments in theoretical aerodynamics and aeroacoustics ( Lighthill's eighth power law ) and was one of the founding fathers of the field of biofluiddynamics. He is also the founder of IMA.

Quote of the day: "as Sir Cyril Hinshelwood has observed ... fluid dynamicists were divided into hydraulic engineers who observed things that could not be explained, and mathematicians who explained things that could not be observed."
-- -James Lighthill

• Paul Erdös was  the  greatest mathematician of  20th century or the Euler of our time , who posed and solved thorny problems in number theory and other areas and founded the field of discrete mathematics, which is the foundation of computer science. He  was also one of the most prolific mathematicians in history , with more than 1,500 papers to his name ( Leonhard Euler was second in the list) ( list of publications ) . In his early career,   he held a post-doctoral fellowship at Man U and sesequently became a wandering mathematician . With no job, no home and his few clothes in an orange carrier bag, he would arrive at colleagues' houses, declare 'My brain is open' and stay. Awarded the Cole Prize by AMS.       Science jokes about Paul Erdos .

• John Dalton : founder of modern atomic theory .|   John Dalton (English Men of Science) , by John Price Millington 

Manchester Science Hall of Fame.

MicroBiography of Physicists     At Manchester Archive

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