G. I. Taylor

G. I. Taylor (born on July 3, 1886 in England, died on June 27, 1975 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was a physicist, engineer, and mathematician from the United Kingdom. Taylor was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Cambridge. His doctoral advisor was J. J. Thomson.

Throughout his career, Taylor had several notable doctoral students, including George Batchelor, Bruce Morton, Stewart Turner, Albert E. Green, Philip Drazin, Owen Martin Phillips, and Francis Bretherton.

Taylor made significant contributions in the fields of fluid dynamics and turbulence, with numerous notable works. Some of his most prominent research includes topics such as the Taylor–Proudman theorem, Rayleigh–Taylor instability, Taylor cone, Taylor number, Taylor–Couette flow, Taylor dispersion, Taylor–Green vortex, viscous fingering, Taylor column, Taylor microscale, and Taylor–Goldstein equation.