William Kenneth George (born 1945) is an American-born fluid dynamicist holding both American and Swedish citizenships. He is currently senior research investigator (professor emeritus) in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London. George is known for his research on both theoretical and experimental turbulence. Education and career Born in Camp Shelby, Mississippi, in 1945, George graduated from Cambridge, Maryland High School as valedictorian in 1963. He attended the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, on a Maryland State Senatorial scholarship and received his BES degree from in 1967 in engineering physics. He continued at Johns Hopkins for doctoral work and received his Ph.D. degree in mechanics under the supervision of John L. Lumley in 1971. In 1968, he joined the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, where he held positions in both Aerospace Engineering and the Applied Research Laboratory. In 1974, he left Pennsylvania State University and joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was promoted to professor in 1980. George joined the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in September 2000 as professor of turbulence. Since retiring as professor emeritus from Chalmers in 2009, he has held positions with CNRS and Ecole Central de Lille in France, Imperial College of London, and Princeton University. WKG has authored several hundred papers, mostly on turbulence and its applications. The number of citations of his work is measured in thousands, and his h-factor is above 30 (Numbers compiled from Google Scholar. Note that the average number of citations for papers in the leading fluids journals is less than 2.). He is known for his work on both theoretical and experimental turbulence. His contributions range from measurements in gas turbines and automotive components to fundamental studies of turbulent shear and wall bounded flows. Among his most significant contributions was the translation and editing in 1980-81 of WIND ATLAS FOR DENMARK, which provided a methodology for siting wind generators and has contributed much to the increasing popularity of this technology in Europe and around the world. He has supervised 29 PhD students and a large number of MSc students, all of whom hold responsible positions as professors, researchers, or engineers in leading establishments throughout the world. His academic descendants now extend through five generations and number more than 100. Professor George has lectured extensively