Markus Reiner

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

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^[1] 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, (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.

Awards

In 1958, Reiner was awarded the Israel Prize, in exact science.^[2]

References

^ J. F. Steffe (1996) Rheological Methods in Food Process Engineering 2nd ed ISBN 0-9632036-1-4 page 1
^ "Israel Prize recipients in 1958 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010 by WebCite®. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)

Primary source

G. W. Scott-Blair (1976) Rheologica Acta volume 15 no 7/8 pages 365–266

D. Abir (ed) (1975) Contributions to Mechanics: Markus Reiner Eightieth Anniversary Volume: Oxford, Pergamon Press
G. W. Scott Blair & M. Reiner (1957) Agricultural Rheology (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London)
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

[1] J. F. Steffe (1996) Rheological Methods in Food Process Engineering 2nd ed ISBN 0-9632036-1-4 page 1

[2] "Israel Prize recipients in 1958 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010 by WebCite®. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)

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