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Stanley G. Mason
Stanley G. Mason
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in physical chemistry from this same institution under the supervision of the well-known Canadian physical chemist Otto Maass with whom he conducted research on critical-state phenomena, especially critical opalescence. Following a two-year academic appointment as lecturer in physical chemistry at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, he spent the war years 1941-45 at the Subfield Experimental Station in Ralston, Alberta, Canada, in the role of research 229
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Stan Mason and his students revolutionized the way in which we think about flowing suspensions and dispersions. These heterogeneous substances, composed of particles dispersed in a fluid, are encountered in fields as diverse as cellulose-fiber suspension in paper-making machines and in the red and white blood cell suspensions coursing through our bodies.
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Over a 43-year period, beginning in 1940 with his first publication on critical phenomena with Otto Maass, and ending with his last publication in 1983 on the droll subject of the surface tension of solids, he published no less than 271 scientific and technical papers totalling 3,282 printed pages of text and coauthored with approximately 60 Ph.D. students, 20 postdoctoral fellows, and IS assorted colleagues and visitors.
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Themes (embodied in the form of serial publications) were zealously pursued over long periods of time as advances in scientific instrumentation occurred to make possible experiments formerly deemed impossible; new and more detailed mathematical formulations were built upon the foundations laid down by more approximate predecessors in the series.
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G Mason Memorial Issue of the International journal of Multiphase Flow, scheduled for publication in mid-1990.
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