Arthur S. Lodge

University of Wisconsin–Madison

November 20, 1922 – June 24, 2005

Theoretical Nuclear Physicist and Rheologist

Awarded Bingham Medal 1971

Dr. Arthur Lodge was an English born physicist who initially was trained as a theoretical nuclear physicist but who did most of his work in the field of rheology. Lodge received his BS in mathematics from Oxford University in 1945 and his PhD in physics from Oxford in 1948. After graduation he received a position at the British Rayon Research Association where he worked from 1949-1961. He then worked at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) for four years before moving to the United States and taking a job at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He worked as a professor and chair of the Rheology Research Center Executive Committee from 1965-1991, when he retired.

Lodge was one of the first to use convected coordinate systems to describe high-strain flows. He then developed the network theory of polymer solutions; ideas embodied in the eponymous “Lodge Rubberlike Liquid Model” and detailed in his monograph Elastic Liquids. In 1971 he was awarded the Bingham Medal for his work in molecular rheology and normal stress measurements, where he discovered an important error that could affect experimental measurements known as the “hole pressure effect”.

Sources

Arthur Lodge named 1971 Bingham Medalist. Physics Today 1971, 24(12), 63. Go to link.

European rheologists honor Lodge with gold medal. Physics Today 1984, 37(1), 93. Go to link.

Rheology Bulletin Jan 2006, 75(1), 18-19. Also, Box 7, Folder 29. Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740.

Photo Credit

The Society of Rheology.