GEOFFREY INGRAM TAYLOR
DE MORGAN MEDALLIST
1956

Sir Geoffrey Taylor received the De Morgan Medal on 15 November 1956. Extract from the President's address: ‘For nearly fifty years he has been producing fundamental work on an extraordinary variety of problems in applied mathematics, problems which he has not only solved but – invariably – illuminated. A very important part of his work has been concerned with turbulent flow; and here he was the initiator of the modern statistical theory. Another subject where he has been the pioneer is the theory of dislocations in crystals. His work shows throughout a happy interplay of mathematical with experimental skill.’