Markus Reiner

Markus Reiner
Born Markus Reiner
January 5, 1886
Died April 25, 1976 (aged 90)

Markus Reiner (Hebrew: מרכוס ריינר‎, born 5 January 1886, died 25 April 1976) was an Israeli scientist and a major figure in rheology.[1]

Biography

Reiner was born in 1886 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, then part of Austria-Hungary, and obtained a degree in Civil Engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna (Vienna University of Technology). After the First World War, he emigrated to Palestine, where he worked as a civil engineer under the British mandate. After the founding of the state of Israel, he became a professor at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa. In his honour the Technion later instituted the Markus Reiner Chair in Mechanics and Rheology.

Research

Reiner was not only a major figure in rheology, he along with Eugene C. Bingham coined the term[2] and founded a society for its study. As well as the term rheology, and his publications, he is known for the Buckingham-Reiner Equation, the Reiner-Riwlin Equation, and Reiner-Rivlin fluids, the Deborah number and the Teapot effect – an explanation of why tea runs down the outside of the spout of a teapot instead of into the cup.

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References

  1. ↑ Markovitz, Hershel (September 1976). "Markus Reiner". Physics Today 29 (9): 70–71. doi:10.1063/1.3023922.
  2. ↑ J. F. Steffe (1996) Rheological Methods in Food Process Engineering 2nd ed ISBN 0-9632036-1-4 page 1
  3. ↑ "Israel Prize recipients in 1958 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010.

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