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Harvey Greenspan

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Harvey Greenspan · Science & Medicine

What

Fluid mechanics

When

1933, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2026, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Harvey Greenspan is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Fluid mechanics

How & why

Harvey P. Greenspan was an American applied mathematician at MIT, both theoretician and experimentalist, best known for 'The Theory of Rotating Fluids' and for helping build MIT's unified applied mathematics program. He worked broadly across fluid dynamics and mathematical biology. His family was Jewish, with Yiddish as their first language.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Fluid Mechanics

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Fluid mechanics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Fluid Mechanics