Eugene Cook Bingham (∗December 18th, 1878 in Cornwall, Vermont, USA; †November 6th, 1945 in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA) was a professor of chemistry and made many contributions to rheology.
Eugene Cook Bingham
Education
Bingham finished his college education in his hometown in 1899. He obtained in 1905 at the Johns Hopkins University the PhD degree. He was also a short-term student at the universities in Berlin, Leipzig, and Cambridge.
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From 1906 up to 1915, he was a professor of Chemistry at the Richmond College in Vermont. After that he was appointed up to 1916 as assistant professor at the US bureau of standardization. From 1916 he was employed at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania (up to his death in 1945).
Scientific Achievements
Eugene C. Bingham wrote in between 1906 and 1914 several papers on viscosity and fluidity. In 1916 he summarized the results in his paper Plastic Flow. In 1922 was published his famous book Fluidity and Plasticity (Bingham, 1922)...
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Bingham EC (1922) Fluidity and Plasticity. McGraw-Hill, New York
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Altenbach, H. (2019). Bingham, Eugene Cook. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_325-1
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