Anatol Roshko (15 July 1923 – 23 January 2017) was a Canadian-born physicist and engineer.
He was the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
He along with H. W. Liepmann is the co-author of the widely used textbook Elements of Gasdynamics.
Most of his academic career has been at Caltech, where he was the Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus at the time of his death.
[2] Roshko received Fluid Dynamics Prize by the American Physical Society (APS) in 1987.