Hall of fame
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This section presents short biographical sketches of the people who were the pillars in CFD. Here is an elementary list of some of these people. Please feel free to add more names to the list or research any of the names presented here and include a short sketch of their lives along with their contributions to CFD. Here is a good resource for biographies http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html
- Claude Navier
- George Stokes
- Daniel Bernoulli
- Lenoard Euler
- Ludwig Prandtl
- Theodore Von Karman
- John Von Neumann
- Lejeune Dirichlet
- Spalding D.B.(needs a first name!)
- Rhie C.M.(needs a first name!)
- Chow W.L.(needs a first name!)
- Suhas Patankar
- Milovan Peric
- Andre-Louis Cholesky
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- Nikolai Mitrofanovich Krylov
- Karl Gauss
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
- John Henry Michell
- Ernest Oliver Tuck
- John Nicholas Newman
- Touvia Miloh
- John V. Wehausen
- Fritz Ursell
- Horace Lamb
- H. Maruo (needs a first name)
- Georg Weinblum
- Thomas H. Havelock
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Please add all the people that made famous contributions in you area of specialization
