Walters, Kenneth
Oral history interview with Kenneth Walters, 2018 July 10.
Transcript of a conversation between Gareth McKinley (SOR Historian) and Prof Ken Walters FRS at Norton House Hotel, The Mumbles, Swansea on July 10, 2018, on the eve of a meeting of the Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (INNFM) to be held at the University of Swansea. Ken discusses his life from growing up in Wales to his PhD with James G. Oldroyd, his time in the United States at UW Madison and his career at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. He also discusses his time as president of the British Society of Rheology (1974-75) and also as inaugural president of the European Society of Rheology (1997), starting the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (1976), and the organization of the very successful Dynamics of Complex Fluids meeting (1996) at the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge.
Kenneth Walters was a British mathematician and rheologist. He was a Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute Of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science of the Aberystwyth University. Walters completed his PhD at the University of Swansea.
Walters, Kenneth
Aberystwyth University
British Society of Rheology.
European Society of Rheology
University College of Swansea
University of Cambridge
University of Wisconsin--Madison
Elasticity
Fluid mechanics.
Non-Newtonian fluids -- Congresses.
Rheology.
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
McKinley, Gareth H. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA