Dr. Metzner, who died suddenly last May, was a distinguished educator and researcher. Examples of his efforts that became “textbook” material in the world of chemical engineering include the Otto-Metzner correlation for power consumption, the White-Metzner equation, his papers on drag reduction, his analysis of the flow of fiber suspension and a landmark paper on the extensional viscosity of fiber suspensions.
His name is associated with the rheology of non-Newtonian fluids and he was the editor of the Journal of Rheology. His 130 research publications spanned the areas of polymer processing, the processing of composite materials, fiber spinning and fluid mechanics. He earned awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Society of Rheology, the American Society for Engineering Education and the American Chemical Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979, an honor that is one of the highest professional distinctions in the field, and received honorary doctorates from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and UD. He also was a recipient of UD's highest faculty honor, the Francis P. Alison Award, in 1981.
The Arthur B. Metzner Symposium was organized in 1993 to celebrate his 40 years of leadership and service at the University, and the October 1994 issue of the journal Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research was dedicated to him. He is warmly remembered as a colleague, mentor and friend.
Symposium topics include “A Short Overview on the Scientific Contributions of Art Metzner,” “How T cells 'See' Antigen: Simplicity in Complexity a-la Metzner,” “Art Metzner's Contributions to the Society of Rheology,” “Art Metzner's Contribution to the Alyeska Pipeline” and many more.
In the afternoon, family, friends, colleagues and students will present, “Remembering Arthur Metzner--Teacher, Research Adviser, Colleague,
Family Man and International Mentor.”
Registration deadline is Friday, April 13. For more information or to register, visit [www.che.udel.edu/forms/metzner], send e-mail to
[sboulden@udel.edu] or call (302) 831-4500.
Photo by Kathy Atkinson
