Sir
Geoffrey
Ingram
Taylor
OM FRS FRS
Born in St. John's Wood, London, England
Ancestors 
Son of Edward Ingram Taylor
and Margaret (Boole) Taylor
Brother of
Julian Taylor
Husband of
Grace Stephanie Frances Ravenhill
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 89
in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Dec 2021
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Biography
Geoffrey Taylor OM FRS FRS is Notable.
Geoffrey was born in 1886.[1] He passed away in 1975. He was a British physicist and mathematician, and a major figure in 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 the grandson of George Boole.
Sources
- ↑ FreeBMD. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
- Wikipedia: G. I. Taylor
- Wikidata: Item Q699541, en:Wikipedia
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Taylor_Geoffrey/
- The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891; Class: RG12; Piece: 105; Folio: 55; Page: 15; GSU roll: 6095215
- Class: RG13; Piece: 119; Folio: 71; Page: 36
- The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
- Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
- The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: Rg 101/6315a
- Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright.
- Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007.
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