Ludwig Prandtl

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Ludwig Prandtl was a pioneering German physicist and engineer known as the father of modern aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, particularly for his development of boundary layer theory.

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instanceOf aerodynamicist
engineer
fluid mechanician
human
physicist
academicDegree doctorate in engineering
awardReceived Daniel Guggenheim Medal NERFINISHED
Franklin Medal NERFINISHED
Royal Society of London foreign membership NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship German Empire NERFINISHED
Germany
dateOfBirth 1875-02-04
dateOfDeath 1953-08-15
doctoralAdvisor August Föppl NERFINISHED
educatedAt Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich NERFINISHED
Technical University of Munich NERFINISHED
employer Göttingen Aerodynamic Institute NERFINISHED
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Mechanics NERFINISHED
University of Göttingen NERFINISHED
familyName Prandtl NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork aerodynamics
applied mechanics
continuum mechanics
fluid mechanics
givenName Ludwig NERFINISHED
hasAcademicDiscipline engineering
physics
influenced Hermann Schlichting NERFINISHED
Johannes Martinus Burgers NERFINISHED
Theodore von Kármán NERFINISHED
Werner Heisenberg NERFINISHED
knownAs father of modern aerodynamics
father of modern fluid mechanics
languageOfWorkOrName German
memberOf Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities NERFINISHED
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities NERFINISHED
Prussian Academy of Sciences
nativeLanguage German
notableFor Prandtl boundary layer NERFINISHED
Prandtl lifting-line theory NERFINISHED
Prandtl mixing length theory NERFINISHED
Prandtl number NERFINISHED
Prandtl stress function NERFINISHED
Prandtl–Batchelor theorem NERFINISHED
Prandtl–Blasius boundary layer solution NERFINISHED
Prandtl–Glauert transformation NERFINISHED
Prandtl–Meyer expansion NERFINISHED
Prandtl–Meyer function NERFINISHED
Prandtl–Reuss equations NERFINISHED
Prandtl–Taylor vortices NERFINISHED
Prandtl–Tomlinson model NERFINISHED
boundary layer theory
placeOfBirth Freising NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Bavaria NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Göttingen NERFINISHED
Lower Saxony NERFINISHED
West Germany NERFINISHED
positionHeld director of the Aerodynamic Institute in Göttingen
professor of applied mechanics
sexOrGender male
workLocation Göttingen NERFINISHED

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Theodore von Kármán doctoralAdvisor Ludwig Prandtl
Marcus Reiner influencedBy Ludwig Prandtl