Ronald Rivlin
Ronald Samuel Rivlin ( born May 6, 1915 in London, † October 4, 2005 in Palo Alto ) was a British- American applied mathematician and expert on the mechanics of rubber.
Life
Rivlin graduated from Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree in 1937, the Master's degree in 1939 and his doctorate in mathematics in 1952. 1937 to 1942 he conducted research at General Electric in their research laboratories and from 1942 to 1944 he was a research officer at the Ministry of Aircraft Production and the Telecommunications research Establishment. 1944 to 1952 he conducted research at the British Rubber Producers Research Association, was 1946/47, a visiting scientist at the National Bureau of Standards of the U.S. and from 1947 to 1952, researchers at the Davy - Faraday Research Laboratory at the Royal Institution in London. 1952/53, he was consultant to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratories. In 1953 he was a visiting professor at Caltech and from 1953 Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. 1958-1963 he was standing there in front of the Department of Applied Mathematics and in 1963 he was L. Herbert Ballou University Professor. 1967 to 1980 he was director of the Center for Applied Mathematics ( University Professor and Centennial ) at Lehigh University, where he retired in 1981.
Rivlin made from the late 1940s and in the 1950s, significant contributions to the modern theory of large elastic deformations ( he led, among other things, in this context, in 1948 Neo - Hooke - solid and Rivlin - Mooney solid and developed the finite elasticity theory to describe rubber and similar substances ) and the theory of non-Newtonian fluids.
He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Ireland, the University of Nottingham (1980 ), Tulane University (1982 ), the University of Thessaloniki ( 1984). In 1958 he received the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology ( which he was president ), 1987, Timoshenko Medal, 1993, the Von- Karman Medal and 1975 the Panetti Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Turin. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Society of Rheology and the American Physical Society. He is an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy and the Accademia dei Lincei. In 1981 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award.
1961/62 he was a Guggenheim Fellow in Rome and 1966/67, he was a visiting professor at the University of Paris. 1984/85 he was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. 1976-1978 he stood before the national U.S. Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
In 1955 he became a U.S. citizen. He was married since 1948 and has a son.