Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt was born the 10th of July, 1927.
He graduated in 1950 from Moscow University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.
He is now working at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California at Berkeley.
His areas of research are:
- Fracture Mechanics
- Theory of Fluid and Gas Flows in Porous Media
- Mechanics of Non-Classical Deformable Solids
- Turbulence
- Self-Similarities, Nonlinear Waves and Intermediate Asymptotics
He usually publishes the result of his studies on the [[|Quarterly Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics]]