SoR Presents Bingham Medal to Larson

The Society of Rheology recently announced the recipients of its 2002 prizes, given at the society’s meeting last October in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“A renaissance man of rheology, excelling in molecular and continuum theory, molecular simulation, and experiment” describes Ronald G. Larson, according to the Bingham Medal citation. The medal, SOR’s most prestigious award, went to Larson for, among other things, his accomplishments in rheology research, his contributions to the research and educational literature, and his service to the society. Larson, G. G. Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering, chairs the chemical engineering department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

The 2002 Journal of Rheology Publication Award was shared by Thomas Thiele, Jean-Francois Berret, Stefan Müller, and Claudia Schmidt for their paper “Rheology and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements Under Shear of Sodium Dodecyl Suflonate/Decano/Water Nematics.” The article was published in the January 2001 issue of the Journal of Rheology (p. 29).