Olivier Darrigol is Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.
`Ask your library to buy it, and share this pleasure with others. I found Olivier Darrigol's Worlds of Flow a very enjoyable book. Reading it will reward all those who care about the problems of fluid mechanics.' M.J. Cooker, Fluid Mechanics, Vol 573 - 2007 `This is another brilliant work by a distinguished historian of physics, a very important and substantial contribution.' Peter Harman, Professor of the History of Science, Lancaster University