See also: Reynolds (homonymy)

Osborne Reynolds (August 23rd 1842 with Belfast - February 21st 1912 with Watchet (England)) is a Engineer and Physicien Irish which made important contributions to the Hydrodynamique and the Dynamique of the fluids, most notable being the introduction of the Reynolds number in 1883.

It becomes titular pulpit of Engineering (there were only two of them at the time) what will become the Victoria University in Manchester. Reynolds considers that all the students engineers must have a luggage of knowledge common founded on the Mathématiques, the Physique, and in particular the fundamental things of traditional Mécanique. In spite of its great interest for education, he was not a large professor. Its courses were difficult to follow, and it often changed subject with little, even no transition. Osborne Reynolds will be made Lord.

The Reynolds number appears for the first time in 1883 in its article entitled Experimental Year Investigation off the Circumstances Which Given Whether the Motion off Toilets in Parallel Channels Shall Direct Be gold Sinuous and off the Law off Resistance in Parallel Channels .

Reynolds was prize winner of the Royal Medal in 1888.

Note: A crater on Mars was named in its honor.

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