The Bingham Medal is an annual award for outstanding contributions to the field of
rheology
Rheology (; ) is the study of the flow of matter, primarily in a fluid (liquid or gas) state but also as "soft solids" or solids under conditions in which they respond with plastic flow rather than deforming elastically in response to an applie ...
awarded at the Annual Meeting of The
Society of Rheology
The Society of Rheology is an American professional society formed in December, 1929 to represent scientists and technologists working in the field of rheology, the science of the deformation and flow of matter.
Current membership is of the orde ...
. It was instituted in 1948 by the society to commemorate
Eugene C. Bingham (1878–1945).
List of Award Winners
Source
Society of Rheology
*1948
Melvin Mooney
Melvin Mooney (1893–1968) was an American physicist and rheologist.
Life
Mooney was born in Kansas City, Missouri.J. H. Dillon (1948) J. Colloid Sci. 4 (3) 187-8 "Introduction of Melvin Mooney as E. C. Bingham Medallist" He achieved an A. ...
*1949
Henry Eyring
*1950 William F. Fair, Jr., Koppers Co.
*1951
Percy Williams Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882 – August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other ...
*1952
Arpad L. Nadai, Westinghouse Electric
*1953
John D. Ferry
*1954 Turner Alfrey, Dow Chemical Co
*1955 Herbert Leaderman, National Bureau of Standards
*1956
Arthur V. Tobolsky
*1957
Clarence Zener
Clarence Melvin Zener ( ; December 1, 1905 – July 2, 1993) was an American physicist who in 1934 was the first to describe the property concerning the breakdown of electrical insulators. These findings were later exploited by Bell Labs in the ...
*1958
Ronald Rivlin
Ronald Samuel Rivlin (6 May 1915 in London – 4 October 2005) was a British-American physicist, mathematician, rheologist and a noted expert on rubber.''New York Times'' November 25, 2005 "Ronald Rivlin, 90, Expert on Properties of Rubber, Dies ...
*1959
Egon Orowan
Egon Orowan FRS () (2 August 1902 – 3 August 1989) was a Hungarian-British physicist and metallurgist.Nabarro, F.R.N. and Argon, A. S.Egon Orowan. 1901—1989: A Biographical Memoir" Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 1996. p. 2 ...
*1960
Bruno Zimm, University of California at San Diego
*1961 William R. Willets, Titanium Pigment Corp.
*1962 Wladimir Philippoff, New Jersey Inst. of Technology
*1963
Clifford A. Truesdell
*1964
Jan M. Burgers
*1965
Eugene Guth
Eugene Guth (August 21, 1905 – July 5, 1990) was a Hungarian-American physicist who made contributions to polymer physics and to nuclear and solid state physics. He was awarded a Ph.D. in theoretical physics by the University of Vienna in 1 ...
*1966
Prince E. Rouse, Los Alamos Scientific Lab.
*1967 Hershel Markovitz, Mellon Institute
*1968
Jerald L. Ericksen
*1969 Stanley G. Mason, McGill University
*1970
Anton Peterlin
*1971
Arthur S. Lodge
*1972
Richard S. Stein
*1973 Robert Simha, Case Western Reserve University
*1974
Robert B. Bird
*1975
Alan N. Gent,
University of Akron
The University of Akron is a public university, public research university in Akron, Ohio, United States. It is part of the University System of Ohio. As a STEM fields, STEM-focused institution, it focuses on industries such as polymers, advance ...
*1976 Lawrence E. Nielsen, Monsanto Company
*1977
Arthur B. Metzner
*1978 Thor L. Smith, IBM, Almaden Research Center
*1979 William W. Graessley, Northwestern University
*1980
Howard Brenner
*1981
James L. White,
University of Akron
The University of Akron is a public university, public research university in Akron, Ohio, United States. It is part of the University System of Ohio. As a STEM fields, STEM-focused institution, it focuses on industries such as polymers, advance ...
*1982 Edward B. Bagley, USDA, Northern Regional Research Center
*1983 Frederick R. Eirich, Polytechnic Institute of New York
*1984 Bernard D. Coleman, Rutgers University
*1985 Roger S. Porter, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
*1986
Morton M. Denn, University of California at Berkeley
*1987
Charles F. Curtiss
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...
, University of Wisconsin-Madison
*1988 William R. Schowalter, Princeton University
*1989 Irvin M. Krieger, Case Western Reserve University
*1990 Guy C. Berry, Carnegie Mellon University
*1991 Louis J. Zapas, National Bureau of Standards
*1992 Kurt F. Wissbrun, Hoechst-Celanese Company
*1993
Daniel D. Joseph
*1994
Andreas Acrivos
Andreas Acrivos (13 June 1928 – 17 February 2025) was a Greek-American physicist who was the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York. He was also the director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Ph ...
*1995 Donald J. Plazek, University of Pittsburgh
*1996
Horst Henning Winter
Horst Henning Winter is a German American chemical engineer, educator and researcher. He is a distinguished professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and was the executive editor of ''Rheologica Acta'' from 1989 to 2016, where he has ...
, University of Massachusetts
*1997
Gerald G. Fuller
*1998 John M. Dealy, McGill University
*1999
William B. Russel
*2000
L. Gary Leal, University of California at Santa Barbara
*2001
Masao Doi
(born 29 March 1948) is a Professor Emeritus at Nagoya University and The University of Tokyo. He is a Fellow of the Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute. In 1976, he introduced a second quantised formalism for studying reaction-diffu ...
, Nagoya University
*2002
Ronald G. Larson, University of Michigan
*2003 Giuseppe Marrucci, University of Naples
*2004
Chris W. Macosko
*2005 Jan Mewis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
*2006
Robert C. Armstrong, MIT
*2007
J. F. Brady
*2008 Hans Christian Öttinger, ETH Zürich
*2009 Gregory B. McKenna, Texas Tech University
*2010
Tom C. B. McLeish, Durham University
*2011 Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, Stanford University
*2012 Ralph H. Colby, Penn State University
*2013
Gareth H. McKinley, MIT
*2014
Norman J. Wagner, University of Delaware
*2015 Hiroshi Watanabe, Kyoto University
*2016
Michael Cates
Michael Elmhirst Cates (born 5 May 1961) is a British physicist. He is the 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and has held this position since 1 July 2015.
He was previously Professor of Natural Philosophy at ...
, University of Cambridge
*2017
Julia A. Kornfield, California Institute of Technology
*201
Michael Rubinstein Duke University
*201
Dimitris Vlassopoulos University of Crete and IESL-FORTH
*202
Ole Hassager Technical University of Denmark
*2021
Jan Vermant, ETH Zurich
*202
Wilson Poon University of Edinburgh
*202
Jeffrey F. Morris CUNY City College of New York
See also
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List of physics awards
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References
Society of Rheology - Bingham Medallists
Rheology awards
Awards established in 1948
American science and technology awards
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