Markus Reiner
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Markus Reiner was not only a major figure in rheology, he along with Eugene C. Bingham coined the term and founded a society for its study.
He was born on 5 January 1886 in Czernowitz, and obtained a degree in Civil Engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna. 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 (Technical University) in Haifa. In his honour the Technion later instituted the Markus Reiner Chair in Mechanics and Rheology. He died on 25 April 1976.
As well as the term rheology, and his publications, he is known for the Buckingham-Reiner Equation, the Reiner-Riwlin Equation, (now usually spelled Reiner-Rivlin), 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.
[edit] Primary source
- G. W. Scott-Blair (1976) Rheologica Acta volume 15 no 7/8 pages 365–266
[edit] Further reading
- D. Abir (ed) (1975) Contributions to Mechanics: Markus Reiner Eightieth Anniversary Volume: Oxford, Pergamon Press
- M. Reiner (1960) Deformation, strain and flow: an elementary introduction to rheology: London, H. K. Lewis
- M. Reiner (1964) Physics Today volume 17 no 1 page 62 The Deborah Number
- M. Reiner (1971) Advanced Rheology: London, H. K. Lewis
- M. Reiner (1975) Selected Papers on Rheology: Amsterdam, Elsevier
