Robert Kraichnan
Robert Kraichnan · Science & Medicine
Physicist; statistical theory of turbulence
1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States — 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
United States
Robert Kraichnan is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; statistical theory of turbulence
Kraichnan was a theoretical physicist who developed influential statistical theories of turbulence, including the direct-interaction approximation and the theory of two-dimensional turbulence. Once an assistant to Albert Einstein at Princeton, he was born into a Jewish family and was Jewish. His work is foundational to modern turbulence theory.
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Physicist; statistical theory of turbulence
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