Grigory Barenblatt

Career and research

Barenblatt also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State University in 1957. He was an emeritus Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994 and he was Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. His areas of research were:

1. Fracture mechanics
2. The theory of fluid and gas flows in porous media
3. The mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids
4. Turbulence
5. Self-similarities, nonlinear waves and intermediate asymptotics.

Family

• His mother was Nadezhda Veniaminovna Kagan (1900–1938), a microbiologist and virologist who worked on tick-borne encephalitis.

• His father was Isaak Grigoryevich Barenblat, a well-known Moscow endocrinologist and co-author of the two-volume Therapeutic Handbook, which was reprinted several times between 1937 and 1946.

• His younger maternal half-brother was mathematician Yakov Grigoryevich Sinai.