Karl Weissenberg - The 80th Birthday
Celebration Essays
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Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge the assistance of Mr. M. S. Sheikh, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nairobi, Kenya, in the production of this work, especially for reproducing many of the graphs and line drawings.
Also to Dr. P. Gay, Mineralogy Department, University of Cambridge and Blackie and Son Ltd., Edinburgh for permission to publish Figure 1a in the essay by Professor H. Lipson. Also to Dr. M. F. Perutz of the MRC Unit for Molecular Biology, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge for permission to publish Figure 1e of the same article. The photograph of the Weissenberg Goniometer is reproduced with the permission of Stoe and CIE, GMBH, Darmstadt, Germany, and the photograph of the Weissenberg Rheogoniometer with permission of Sangamo Controls Ltd., Bognor Regis., U.K.
J. H.
A Weissenberg Goniometer (Courtesey of Stoe & CIE GMBH)
A Weissenberg Rheogoniometer (Courtesey of Sangamo Controls Ltd.)
Preface / Acknowledgements / Biographical Notes
Weissenberg’s Influence on Crystallography
Karl Weissenberg and the Development of X-Ray Crystallography
The Isolation of, and the Initial Measurements of the Weissenberg Effect
The Role of Similitude in Continuum Mechanics
Elasticity in Incompressible Liquids
The Physical Meaning of Weissenberg's Hypothesis with Regard to the Second Normal-Stress Difference
A Study of Weissenberg's Holistic Approach to Biorheology
The Weissenberg Rheogoniometer Adapted for Biorheological Studies
Weissenberg’s Contributions to Rheology
The Early Development of the Rheogoniometer
Some of Weissenberg's More Important Contributions to Rheology: An Appreciation
Publications of Karl Weissenberg and Collaborators / List of Contributors
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