Ronald Rivlin

Ronald Samuel Rivlin (6 May 1915 in London – 4 October 2005) was a British-American physicist, mathematician, rheologist and a noted expert on rubber.

Ronald Samuel Rivlin
Born(1915-05-06)May 6, 1915
London, United Kingdom
DiedOctober 4, 2005(2005-10-04) (aged 90)
Palo Alto, California, United States
NationalityBritish-American
Alma materCambridge
Known forFinite strain theory
Polynomial hyperelastic model
Neo-Hookean solid
Mooney–Rivlin solid
Rivlin–Ericksen tensor
AwardsBingham Medal (1958)
Timoshenko Medal (1987)
Charles Goodyear Medal (1992)
Theodore von Karman Medal (1993)
Scientific career
FieldsContinuum Mechanics
InstitutionsBRPRA
Brown University
Lehigh University
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