Hendrik Tennekes, Date of Birth

Hendrik Tennekes

Dutch scientist

Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1936

Profession: engineer, meteorologist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.