Mark Samuel Nelkin (born 12 May 1931) is a theoretical physicist at the Cornell University.
Under the direction of Professor Hans Bethe, he received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell in 1955.
[1] He spent leaves from Cornell at the University of Paris, The Collège de France in Paris, The National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Harvard University, and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
At the Collège de France in 1976, he gave a series of twelve lectures on turbulence at the invitation of Pierre Gilles de Gennes.
[1]Nelkin became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1984,[3] having been nominated by their Division of Fluid Dynamics,[3] for contributions to the advancement of physics by strong theoretical contributions in four areas beginning with the physics of thermal neutrons and its applications to nuclear reactors, kinetic theory of fluctuations in fluids, turbulence, and 1/f noise.