Bob Bilger
Born
Robert William Bilger

22 April 1935
Died2 October 2015
OccupationEngineer

Robert William Bilger FAA (22 April 1935 – 2 October 2015[1]) was a South African born Australian engineer.

He studied at Auckland University College in New Zealand before attending Exeter College, University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.[2] In 1965 he joined the University of Sydney as a senior lecturer in mechanical engineering before becoming a professor in 1976, where he remained until his retirement in 2006.

He was awarded the status of Fellow[3] in the American Physical Society,[4] after being nominated by the Division of Fluid Dynamics in 2002,[5] for "outstanding contributions to knowledge of turbulent reactive flows through insightful experiments, theory and modelling, especially for elucidating the fundamental processes in turbulent combustion and for the development of the conditional moment closure."

For his contributions to combustion science, he was awarded the Ya. B. Zeldovich Gold Medal by The Combustion Institute in 1992.[6] Due to the impact of his research and his involvement in the organisation of combustion conferences, the primary keynote lecture during the biannual Australian Combustion Symposium is known as the "Bilger Lecture".[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Bilger, Robert William - Biographical entry". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "Bob Bilger". Rhodes Scholar Database. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  3. ↑ "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "APS Fellows 2002". www.aps.org. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Ya. B. Zeldovich Medals". www.combustioninstitute.org. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  7. ↑ "Bilger Lectures". www.anz-combustioninstitute.org. Retrieved 17 August 2023.


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