Karl Weissenberg
Karl Weissenberg · Science & Medicine
Physicist known for rheology and the Weissenberg effect
1893, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1976, The Hague, Netherlands
Austria · Germany · United Kingdom
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Karl Weissenberg was an Austrian-born physicist and a founder of modern rheology — the science of how materials flow and deform. He described the 'Weissenberg effect', in which certain fluids climb a rotating rod, and devised instruments to measure elastic stresses in liquids. A Jewish scientist, he fled Nazi Germany and continued his career in Britain.
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Physicist known for rheology and the Weissenberg effect
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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