John Shipley Rowlinson, the Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, will be on campus from April 27 through May 4 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. On May 1, he will deliver a free and public lecture titled "How Does a Glacier Come Down a Mountain? A Rheological Problem" at 4:30 p.m. in Room D of Goldwin Smith Hall.
"Rowlinson is a world-renowned expert on the properties of liquid mixtures and of liquid interfaces," said Keith Gubbins, the Thomas R. Briggs Professor of Engineering at Cornell.
Rowlinson last visited Cornell in 1994 as a professor-at-large. In 1988, he was the Mary Upson Professor of Engineering at Cornell.