List of contributors Preface Peter Davidson, Yukio Kaneda, Keith Moffatt and Katepalli Sreenivasan 1. Osborne Reynolds: a turbulent life Brian Launder and Derek Jackson 2. Prandtl and the Gottingen school Eberhard Bodenschatz and Michael Eckert 3. Theodore von Karman A. Leonard and N. Peters 4. G. I. Taylor: the inspiration behind the Cambridge school Katepalli Sreenivasan 5. Lewis Fry Richardson Roberto Benzi 6. The Russian school Gregory Falkovich 7. Stanley Corrsin Charles Meneveau and James J. Riley 8. George Batchelor: the post-war renaissance of research in turbulence H. K. Moffatt 9. A. A. Townsend Ivan Marusic and Timothy B. Nickels 10. Robert H. Kraichnan Gregory Eyink and Uriel Frisch 11. Satish Dhawan Roddam Narasimha 12. Philip G. Saffman Dale I. Pullin and Daniel I. Meiron 13. Epilogue: a turbulence timeline Peter Davidson, Yukio Kaneda, Keith Moffatt and Katepalli Sreenivasan.