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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University March 3, 2008 | Vol. 37 No. 24
 
Obituary: Robert H. Kraichnan, 80, of WSE, Expert in Modern Turbulence Theory

Robert H. Kraichnan, Homewood Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, died on Feb. 26 in Santa Fe, N.M., after a long illness. He was 80.

Kraichnan's early work was in general relativity, and he was one of Albert Einstein's last assistants at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Most of Kraichnan's work since the mid-1950s was on fluid mechanical turbulence, and he was considered by many to be the father of modern turbulence theory. He won many prestigious awards, including the Dirac Medal, the APS Onsager Prize and the APS Fluid Dynamics Prize.

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