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SINCE the outbreak of War, new and urgent problems concerning the flow and deformation properties of materials (rheology) have arisen in many industries and in research, and a group of British rheologists have therefore formed a club for mutual help and discussion. Prof. G. I. Taylor, Yarrow research professor of the Royal Society, has accepted the presidency. The objects of the new Club are “to co-ordinate the activities of Rheologists in Britain during the War, to further the appreciation of the importance of rheology in industry and to facilitate the pooling of information (where it is desirable) with respect to problems and new methods of research”. Membership of the Club is open to any individual working or interested in rheology who is resident anywhere in the British Empire, and there is a nominal subscription of five shillings per annum. Arrangements are in preparation for an inaugural meeting of the Club to be held at the National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading, on November 16, when it is proposed to hold an informal discussion on a topic to be selected, followed by an inspection of rheological apparatus including some recent developments. Fuller details of the Club may be obtained from the honorary secretary, Dr. G. W. Scott Blair, c/o Institute of Physics, at the University, Reading, Berks.
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British Rheologists' Club. Nature 146, 518 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146518c0
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