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Robert Harry Kraichnan

Affiliations: 
1949 Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States 
 1949-1950 Einstein Research Assistant Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, United States 
 1950-1952 Technical Staff Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, United States 
 1952-1956 Electronics Research Laboratory Columbia University, New York, NY 
 1956-1959 Member Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 
 1957-1959 Consultant U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States 
 1959-1962 Senior Research Scientist New York University, New York, NY, United States 
 1960-2008 Associate in Physics Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Falmouth, MA, United States 
 1961-2008 Consultant National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC, United States 
 2003-2008 Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 
Area:
Theoretical Physics, Theory of Fluid Turbulence, Field Theory and General Relativity
Website:
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(1928 - 2008)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/3009314.html
DOI: 10.1063/PT.6.6.20190115a
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139018241.011
https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Kraichnan&first_nm=Robert&year=1997
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1950PhDT........21K/abstract
See: Gregory Eyink and Uriel Frisch, Robert H. Kraichnan, https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2383
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Herman Feshbach grad student 1947-1949 MIT
 (Doctoral Thesis: Relativistic scattering of pseudoscalar mesons by nucleons)
Albert Einstein post-doc 1949-1950 Institute for Advanced Study

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Uriel Frisch grad student 1964-1967 University of Paris

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Gotoh T, Kraichnan RH. (2004) Turbulence and Tsallis statistics Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. 193: 231-244
Kraichnan RH. (1999) Note on forced Burgers turbulence Physics of Fluids. 11: 3738-3742
He G, Chen S, Kraichnan RH, et al. (1998) Statistics Of Dissipation And Enstrophy Induced By Localized Vortices Physical Review Letters. 81: 4636-4639
Chen S, Kraichnan RH. (1998) Simulations of a randomly advected passive scalar field Physics of Fluids. 10: 2867-2884
Gotoh T, Kraichnan RH. (1998) Steady-state Burgers turbulence with large-scale forcing Physics of Fluids. 10: 2859-2866
Ching ESC, Kraichnan RH. (1998) Exact Results for Conditional Means of a Passive Scalar in Certain Statistically Homogeneous Flows Journal of Statistical Physics. 93: 787-795
Kraichnan RH. (1997) Passive Scalar: Scaling Exponents and Realizability Physical Review Letters. 78: 4922-4925
Martínez DO, Chen S, Doolen GD, et al. (1997) Energy spectrum in the dissipation range of fluid turbulence Journal of Plasma Physics. 57: 195-201
CHEN S, KRAICHNAN RH. (1997) Inhibition of turbulent cascade by sweep Journal of Plasma Physics. 57: 187-193
Kraichnan RH, Yakhot V, Chen S. (1995) Scaling relations for a randomly advected passive scalar field. Physical Review Letters. 75: 240-243
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