Osborne Reynolds

Osborne Reynolds (23 August 1842- 21 February 1912) is the namefather of the Reynolds number which is the ratio of inertial forces to the viscous forces. He was born in Belfast, Ireland and died in Watchet in Somerset, England. Reynolds graduated from Cambridge University in 1867 after studying mathematics. In 1868 he became a professor of engineering in Manchester, and was only the second to hold this role in England.