Akiva Yaglom
Akiva Yaglom · Science & Medicine
Physicist known for turbulence theory and statistical fluid mechanics
1921, Kharkiv, Ukraine (Soviet Union) — 2007, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Soviet Union / Russia · United States
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Yaglom was a Soviet-Russian physicist and mathematician known for foundational contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and the theory of random processes, co-authoring with A. N. Kolmogorov's school the standard monograph 'Statistical Fluid Mechanics'. His work underpins modern modeling of turbulent flows. He was Jewish; he later moved to MIT, where he worked until his death.
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Physicist known for turbulence theory and statistical fluid mechanics
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