Anatol Roshko (15 July 1923 – 23 January 2017) was a Canadian-born physicist and engineer. He was the

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Professor of

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, at the

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. Roshko is known for his contributions to gas dynamics. He along with H. W. Liepmann is the co-author of the widely used textbook ''Elements of Gasdynamics''. He has made research contributions to problems of separated flow; bluff-body aerodynamics; structure of turbulent shear flow. He completed his undergraduate education at the

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with a B.Sc. degree in

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, in 1945, received the M.Sc. degree from Caltech in 1947 and the Ph.D. in 1952. Most of his academic career has been at Caltech, where he was the Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus at the time of his death. He was also a member of the

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; a Fellow of the

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, the

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, the

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and an Honorary Fellow of the

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. Roshko received Fluid Dynamics Prize by the

(APS) in 1987. He was also awarded the

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in 1999.

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