Grigory Barenblatt

Education

Career and research

1. Fracture mechanics
2. The theory of fluid and gas flows in porous media
3. The mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids
4. Turbulence
5. Self-similarities, nonlinear waves and intermediate asymptotics.

   Awards and honors

• 1975 – Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1984 – Foreign Member, Danish Center of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics
• 1988 – Foreign Member, Polish Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics
• 1989 – Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1992 – Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
• 1993 – Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society
• 1993 – Member, Academia Europaea
• 1994 – Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge;
• 1995 – Lagrange Medal, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
• 1995 – Modesto Panetti Prize and Medal
• 1996 - Visiting Miller Professorship - University of California Berkeley
• 1997 – Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• 1999 – G. I. Taylor Medal, U.S. Society of Engineering Science
• 1999 – J. C. Maxwell Medal and Prize, International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• 2000 – Foreign Member, Royal Society of London
• 2005 – Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, "for seminal contributions to nearly every area of solid and fluid mechanics, including fracture mechanics, turbulence, stratified flows, flames, flow in porous media, and the theory and application of intermediate asymptotics."