Leal and Others Receive SOR Prizes

The Society of Rheology presented two prizes for 2000 at a meeting held last month in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

The Bingham Medal, SOR’s highest honor, was presented to Gary Leal, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. According to the citation, Leal was recognized for his “outstanding and wide-ranging accomplishments in rheology over the last thirty years.”

Four authors are sharing SOR’s Publication Award for parts 1 and 2 of their paper entitled “Shear Thickening in Low-Concentration Solutions of Wormlike Micelles.” David Pine, Y. T. Hu, and Phillipe Boltenhagen wrote part 1, “Direct Visualization of Transient Behavior and Phase Transitions.” These authors, along with Eric Matthys, wrote part 2, “Slip, Fracture, and Stability of the Shear-Induced Phase.” Pine is a professor of chemical engineering and materials and Matthys is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Hu is a senior research scientist at Unilever Research in Edgewater, New Jersey, and Boltenhagen is the head of research at the CNRS Laboratory of Complex Fluid Dynamics in Strasbourg, France.