Eugene C. Bingham
{{Infobox person
| name = Eugene C. Bingham
| birth_name = Eugene Cook Bingham
| birth_date = {{birth date|1878|12|8}}
| birth_place = Cornwall, Vermont
| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|11|6|1878|12|8}}
| death_place = Easton, Pennsylvania
| occupation = American chemist
}}
{{short description|American chemist (1878–1945)}}
Eugene Cook Bingham (8 December 1878 – 6 November 1945) was a professor and head of the department of chemistry at Lafayette College. Bingham made many contributions to rheology, a term he is credited (along with Markus Reiner) with introducing.{{Cite book | last = Steffe | first = J. F. | title = Rheological Methods in Food Process Engineering | edition = 2nd | year = 1996 | page = 1 | isbn = 0-9632036-1-4}} He was a pioneer in both its theory and practice. The type of fluid known as a Bingham plastic or Bingham Fluid is named after him, as is Bingham Stress. He was also one of the people responsible for the construction of the Appalachian Trail.{{Cite journal | last = Lehman | first = Paul R. | title = Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club | journal = The Historical Review of Berks County | publisher = Historical Society of Berks County | date = Fall 1997 | url = http://www.berkshistory.org/articles/trail.html | access-date = 2008-08-10 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080529074743/http://www.berkshistory.org/articles/trail.html | archive-date = 2008-05-29 | url-status = dead }}
Biography
Bingham was born on 8 December 1878 in Cornwall, Vermont.
He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit in 1921 for his variable pressure viscometer.{{Cite web |title=Eugene C. Bingham |url=http://www.fi.edu/winners/detail.faw?winner_id=2338 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324102934/http://www.fi.edu/winners/detail.faw?winner_id=2338 |archive-date=March 24, 2012 |accessdate=December 21, 2010 |work=Franklin Laureate Database |publisher=The Franklin Institute}} In 1922, as chairman of the Metric Committee of the American Chemical Society, he campaigned for the United States to adopt the metric system.{{Cite journal | last = Bingham | first = E. C. | title = Progress in Metric Standardization | journal = J. Ind. Eng. Chem. | volume = 14 | issue = 4 | pages = 332–333 | year = 1922| doi = 10.1021/ie50148a035 | bibcode = 1922Sci....55..232B }}{{Cite news | title = Action on Metric System | newspaper = New York Times | date = April 11, 1922}}
Bingham died on 6 November 1945 in Easton, Pennsylvania.{{Cite news |agency=Associated Press| title = Dr. Eugene Bingham. Leading Rheologist Organized Society in 1929. Dies at 67 | newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F05E6DE173AEE3BBC4F53DFB767838E659EDE| page = 23 | date = November 7, 1945}}
Legacy
The Society of Rheology has awarded the Bingham Medal annually since 1948.{{Cite web | title = Bingham Medalists | publisher = The Society of Rheology | date = November 15, 2010 | url = http://www.rheology.org/sor/awards/bingham/default.htm | accessdate = December 21, 2010 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100713170253/http://www.rheology.org/sor/awards/Bingham/default.htm | archivedate = July 13, 2010 }}
Selected publications
- Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (1914) vol. 6(3) pp. 233–237: A new viscometer for general scientific and technical purposes
- Journal of Physical Chemistry (1914) vol. 18(2) pp. 157–165: The Viscosity of Binary Mixtures
- [https://archive.org/details/fluidityandplast007721mbp Fluidity and Plasticity] (1922) McGraw-Hill (Internet Digital Archive)
- Journal of Physical Chemistry (1925) vol. 29(10) pp. 1201–1204: Plasticity
- Review of Scientific Instruments (1933) vol. 4 p. 473: The New Science of Rheology
- Journal of General Physiology (1944) vol. 28 pp. 79–94, pp. 131–149 [Bingham and Roepke], (1945) vol. 28 pp. 605–626: The Rheology of Blood
References
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External links
- [http://imago.lafayette.edu/collections/cap/lc-spcol-cap-00783.jpg Photograph of E. C. Bingham]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} – Lafayette University Historical Photograph Collection
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Category:People from Cornwall, Vermont