Hendrik Tennekes
Scientist, Author
1936 –
Who is Hendrik Tennekes?
Hendrik Tennekes was the director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, and was a Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. 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' from 1982 - 2010.
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