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Awards made by the BSR
The Society awards a Gold Medal
every few years in recognition of outstanding contributions to rheology
and has also established
an Annual Award.
This has been made to younger scientists in recognition of their work
as well as to rheologists who have made a significant contribution to rheology and/or to the life of the Society.
In 2003 the Society instituted a new annual award for the most distinguished PhD thesis in rheology. The aim of the Vernon Harrison Doctoral Award is to recognise excellence, creativity and novelty in research; it will be awarded to the postgraduate member who, in the opinion of the adjudicating committee, has made the most original and significant contribution to any branch of rheological research (experimental, computational or theoretical) leading to the award of a PhD degree in a given academic year. This prize is partly supported by the Vernon Harrison Bequest, and will be £500 and an illuminated certificate. The deadline for entries is in September each year.
The Society also makes travel grants in support of the expenses incurred by students in their attendance at conferences and courses.
Application for grants should be made to the
Secretary. The BSR now awards a prize for the best poster presented at a BSR meeting, sponsored by TA Instruments.
To encourage younger rheologists, the Society has in the past made an award for the best paper(s) presented
at a Young Rheologists' Day, it has awarded the Scott Blair Memorial Scholarship
and administered the Scott Blair Biorheology Scholarship, funded by Elsevier Science.
- 1966 - M. Reiner
- 1969 - D. Dowson & G.R. Higginson
- 1970 - Dr G.W. Scott Blair
- 1970 - Dr V.G.W. Harrison
- 1972 - Professor L.R.G. Treloar
- 1980 - Professor J.G. Oldroyd
- 1983 - Professor A.S. Lodge
- 1984 - Professor K. Walters, FRS
- 1986 - Professor J.R.A. Pearson
- 1990 - Professor Sir Sam Edwards, FRS
- 1990 - Professor H. Giesekus
- 1994 - Professor M.J. Crochet
- 2000 - Professor Roger Tanner
- 2004 - Professor David Boger
- 2005 - Professor Jan Mewis
- 2009 - Professor Mike Cates, FRS
- 2009 - Professor Tom McLeish
- 1978 - R.W. Whorlow
- 1979 - J.F. Hutton
- 1980 - Dr E.J. Hinch
- 1981 - Professor J. Meissner,
Dr H.M. Laun, Dr H. Munstedt & Dr M.H. Wagner
- 1982 - Professor F.M. Leslie, FRS
- 1983 - Professor D.V. Boger
- 1984 - Dr K.M. Beazley
- 1985 - Dr R. Buscall
- 1986 - Dr B.A. Toms
- 1987 - Dr D.C.-H. Cheng
- 1988 - Dr D.M. Binding
- 1989 - Dr J.J. Benbow
- 1990 - Dr D.M. Heyes
- 1991 - Dr P. Moldenaers
- 1992 - Dr C.J.S. Petrie
- 1993 - Dr A. Evans
- 1994 - Dr G.H. McKinley
- 1995 - Dr W.M. Jones
- 1997 - Dr P.R. Williams
- 1998 - Dr D.R. Oliver
- 1999 - Dr R.C. Ball & Dr J.R. Melrose
- 2000 - Professor Tom McLeish
- 2001 - Professor Howard Barnes, O.B.E.
- 2002 - Professor Malcolm Mackley
- 2003 - Dr John Rallison
- 2004 - Dr Justin Cooper-White
- 2005 - Professor A. R. Davies
- 2006 - Dr Oliver Harlen
- 2007 - Dr Gerry Meeten
- 2008 - Professor Peter Olmsted
- 2009 - Dr Jeff Odell
- 2010 - Professor Joćo Maia
- 2011 - Professor David James
- 2012 - Professor Tim Phillips
Special Awards
- Special Award, 1994 - J.E. (Jack) Roberts
- Special Award, 1999 - P.C. (Peter) Anderson
- Special Award, 2004 - G.J. (Geoff) Brownsey
- 2003 - Richard S. Graham
- 2004 - Sally L. Everitt
- 2005 - Roel G.M. van Os
- 2006 - Joel C. Miller
- 2007 - Tim Reis
- 2008 - Lucio Isa
- 2009 - John Duffy
- 2010 - Steven Lind
- 2011 - David Hoyle and Hao Yu
- 2012 - Neil Goulding
- Midwinter 2007 - Line Do
- Midwinter 2008 - Yuan Yuan Dong
- Midwinter 2009 - Zhuo Li
- INNFM 2010 - Matt Lawrence
- Midwinter 2010 - Maxime Boulet-Audet
- Midwinter 2011 - Robyn Moorcroft
- Midwinter 2012 - Chris Rowlatt
Best presentations, Young Rheologists' Day
- 1994 - James Greener, Janet Johnson, Supinder Aneja
- 1996 - Rulande P.G. Rutgers,
Surface instabilities during the extrusion of LLDPE
- 1988 - A. Speers
- 1993 - P.D. Doody
- 1998 - Y. Deliyannis
Scott Blair Biorheology Scholarship
- 1989 - A. Nithiananthan
- 1993 - S. de Smedt
- 2001 - S. Cordy
Information dated 20th December 2012.
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