biography
pronunciation:
[renuhldz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1842–1912)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in Belfast, NE Northern Ireland, UK. He studied at Cambridge, became the first professor of engineering at Manchester (1868), and a Royal Society gold medallist (1888). Best known for his work in hydrodynamics and hydraulics, he greatly improved centrifugal pumps. The Reynolds number, a dimensionless ratio characterizing the dynamic state of a fluid, takes its name from him. |
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