Markus Reiner

Markus Reiner (born January 5, 1886 in Czernowitz , Austria-Hungary ; died April 25, 1976 in Haifa ) was an Austro-Israeli engineer and pioneer in rheology .

Life

Markus Reiner studied at the University of Vienna . He worked as a railway engineer in Austria-Hungary and Romania. Reiner was an officer in the First World War and from 1919 to 1922 a member of the Zionist Action Committee of Bukovina .

He was initially married to Margalit Obernik, they had two children, and then to Rivka Schoenfeld, with whom he also had two children, the historian Tal Ilan is a granddaughter.

Reiner emigrated to Palestine in 1922 , where he initially worked in agriculture.He then worked for 25 years in the Public Works Department of Palestine Government in Jerusalem in the construction of roads, bridges and housing and was also involved in the structural security and preservation of ancient sites . In 1926 Reiner published an essay on his research on the behavior of liquids in tubes, at the same time the American Eugene Cook Bingham published similar studies, so that both are regarded as the creators of a modern rheology . Both worked together at Lafayette College in Eaton, Pennsylvania from 1932 to 1934 and have since jointly edited the Journal of Rheology .

After the establishment of the State of Israel, Reiner became professor of practical mechanics at the Technion in Haifa in 1948 . Reiner published two monographs and around 200 journal articles and in 1957 together with GW Scott Blair the book Agricultural Rheology . Reiner received the Israel Prize for Science in 1958 . He was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and a member of the Israeli Government's Research Advisory Board.

Fonts (selection)

• Ten Lectures on Theoretical Rheology . 1943
• with GW Scott Blair : Agricultural Rheology . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1957
• Deformation, strain and flow: an elementary introduction to rheology . London: HK Lewis, 1949 (1960)
• The Deborah Number , in: Physics Today , 1964, Issue 1, p. 62
• Advanced Rheology . London: HK Lewis, 1971
• Selected Papers on Rheology . Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1975

literature

• David Abir (Ed.): Contributions to Mechanics: Markus Reiner Eightieth Anniversary Volume . Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1969 ISBN 0-08-012822-X
• Markus Reiner , in: Armin A. Wallas (Ed.): Eugen Hoeflich . Diaries 1915 to 1927 . Vienna: Böhlau, 1999 ISBN 3-205-99137-0 , p. 545

Web links

• Literature by and about Markus Reiner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Markus Reiner , at jewish virtual library