Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (7.03.1886—27.06. 1975) — an English physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society (1919). Born in London. He graduated from the University of Cambridge (1908) and for most of his life worked at Trinity College and the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.
His work was devoted to the mechanics of continuous media, the dynamics of liquids, the plastic deformation of crystals, the statistical theory of turbulence, applied mathematics, meteorology and aeronautics. He carried out pioneering research in the theory of dislocations (he introduced the concept of dislocations in 1933).
Member of many academies of sciences and scientific societies, in particular foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966).