Homage to a Legendary Dynamicist on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

Abstract

Mohamed Gad-el-HakProfessor Mohamed Gad-el-Hak is an engineering scientist, globally well-known in the field of classical physics and the subfields of mechanics, biomechanics, fluid mechanics, turbulence, flow control, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microfluidics, and nanotechnology. He was born on Feb. 11, 1945 in Tanta, Egypt, a city in the heart of the Nile Delta, 94 km north of Cairo. Gad-el-Hak's elementary, secondary, and tertiary public education took place in Cairo. He received a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Ain Shams University in 1966, where he graduated summa cum laude and ranked first in his class. Gad-el-Hak moved to U.S. in 1968 to start his graduate studies. He received a Ph.D. Degree in fluid mechanics in 1973 from the Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Professor Stanley Corrsin. (Corrsin's graduate advisors at Caltech were Hans W. Liepmann and Theodore von Kárrmán. The latter's doctoral advisor at Göttingen was Ludwig Prandtl.) Gad-el-Hak's doctoral thesis is entitled “Experiments on the Nearly Isotropic Turbulence Behind a Jet-Grid.”