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D-Index
54
Citations
18181
World Ranking
3111
National Ranking
919

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1983 - A.C. Eringen Medal
  • 1957 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

R. Byron Bird was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focused on Medicine, with specific attention to subfields such as Hematology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Food Science, Sociology and Political Science, and History.

The scientist's work covered a range of main topics including Nutritional Studies and Diet, Culinary Culture and Tourism, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Hemophilia Treatment and Research, Platelet Disorders and Treatments, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments, as well as Communism, Protests, and Social Movements.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by R. Byron Bird were the following:

  • Defining the Traditional Mediterranean Lifestyle: Joint International Consensus Statement, 2024, published in Lifestyle Medicine
  • Acquired Hemophilia A Secondary to an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor: A Case Report, 2022, published in JTO Clinical and Research Reports
  • Introduction, 2020, published in South Atlantic Quarterly

The frequent co-authors associated with R. Byron Bird included Labros S. Sidossis, Rob Lawson, Emmanuel Aprilakis, Bernardo C. Barata, and Alicja Baska.

Publications featuring R. Byron Bird appeared in venues such as Lifestyle Medicine, JTO Clinical and Research Reports, and South Atlantic Quarterly.

During their career, R. Byron Bird received several awards. They became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1989, were awarded the A.C. Eringen Medal in 1983, and were a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1957.

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids

    R. Byron Bird

  • The Rheology and Flow of Viscoplastic Materials

    R. Byron Bird;G.C. Dai;Barbara J. Yarusso

  • Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Volume 1: Fluid Mechanics

    Ole Hassager;R. Byron Bird

  • A nonlinear viscoelastic model for polymer solutions and melts—II

    R. Byron Bird;Pierre J. Carreau

  • The Transport Properties for Non‐Polar Gases

    Joseph O. Hirschfelder;R. Byron Bird;Ellen L. Spotz

  • Constitutive equations for polymeric liquids

    R. Byron Bird;John M. Wiest

  • Squeezing Flow between Parallel Disks. I. Theoretical Analysis

    Philip J. Leider;R. Byron Bird

  • A kinetic theory for polymer melts. I. The equation for the single‐link orientational distribution function

    C. F. Curtiss;R. Byron Bird

  • Surface tension and the principle of corresponding states

    James R. Brock;R. Byron Bird

  • Calculation of the diffusion coefficient of dilute gases and of the self‐diffusion coefficient of dense gases

    John C. Slattery;R. Byron Bird

  • The Graetz-Nusselt problem for a power-law non-newtonian fluid☆

    Bjørn C. Lyche;R.Byron Bird

  • Kinetic theory and rheology of dumbbell suspensions with Brownian motion

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  • Analytical and numerical solutions for laminar flow of the non‐Newtonian ellis fluid

    Seikichi Matsuhisa;R. Byron Bird

  • Theory of Diffusion

    R. Byron Bird

  • A kinetic theory for polymer melts. II. The stress tensor and the rheological equation of state

    C. F. Curtiss;R. Byron Bird

  • Tube flow of non-Newtonian polymer solutions: PART I. Laminar flow and rheological models

    Donald M. Meter;R. Byron Bird

  • A finitely extensible bead-spring chain model for dilute polymer solutions

    Lewis E. Wedgewood;Daniel N. Ostrov;R.Byron Bird

  • An Experimental Appraisal of Viscoelastic Models

    Thomas W. Spriggs;John D. Huppler;R. Byron Bird

  • On coil–stretch transitions in dilute polymer solutions

    J. M. Wiest;L. E. Wedgewood;R. Byron Bird

  • Kinetic Theory and Rheology of Macromolecular Solutions

    C. F. Curtiss;R. Byron Bird;Ole Hassager

  • Co‐rotational rheological models and the Goddard expansion

    R. Byron Bird;Ole Hassager;S. I. Abdel-Khalik

  • Rheological Properties of Three Solutions. Part II. Relaxation and Growth of Shear and Normal Stresses

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  • Dynamics of polymeric liquids, Volume 1: Fluid mechanics, 2nd Edition

    R. Byron Bird;Robert C. Armstrong;Ole Hassager

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole Hassager
Ole Hassager Technical University of Denmark
Robert C. Armstrong
Robert C. Armstrong Sandia National Laboratories
Said I. Abdel-Khalik
Said I. Abdel-Khalik Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel J. Klingenberg
Daniel J. Klingenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Pierre J. Carreau
Pierre J. Carreau Polytechnique Montréal
Robert K. Prud'homme
Robert K. Prud'homme Princeton University
Michael Renardy
Michael Renardy Virginia Tech

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