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Dec 13, 1936 87 years old
Dutch scientist
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About Hendrik Tennekes
- Hendrik (Henk) Tennekes (born December 13, 1936, Kampen) was the director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, or KNMI), and was a Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University and Professor of Meteorology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University (VU) in Amsterdam).
- He is known for his work in the fields of turbulence and multi-modal forecasting.
- He authored the textbooks The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets and A First Course in Turbulence with John L.
- Lumley.
- The book "A First Course in Turbulence", is a classic that logs more than 2,000 citations on Google Scholar. Tennekes has stressed the limited predictability of complex systems and the limited value of predictions based on scientific modeling.He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW) from 1982 – 2010.
