Anatol Roshko
A recognized world authority on various concepts important in aerospace engineering, Anatol Roshko, 1945 BSc(Eng), has had a distinguished career as a teacher and scholar at the California Institute of Technology's Graduate Aeronautics Laboratories. Anatol Roshko is internationally known for his research in various areas of fluid mechanics and gas dynamics that are important in aerospace engineering. He is the co-author, with H.W. Liepmann, of Elements of Gasdynamics, which was published in 1956 and remains a standard text, widely used throughout the world.His academic career includes two years of teaching at the University of Alberta and 40 years at the California Institute of Technology where he is now Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus.
A member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Dr Roshko has been a consultant to government laboratories and companies such as the McDonnell-Douglas, Rockwell, and General Motors Corporations. A world authority on turbulent shear flows, he is known for the breadth and originality of his work. He and his students have made significant contributions in fluid mechanics, including work on coherent structures that initiated new directions in turbulence research.
Roshko is a 1998 recipient of the University of Alberta Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award.