L. Gary Leal - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

• Distinguished Scholar Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, October 2006
• Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society, 2002
• Highly Cited Researchers, Original Member, 100 Most Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering, ISI Thompson Scientific, 2001.
• Bingham Medal, The Society of Rheology, American Institute of Physics, 2001
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Grant, 1975.
• John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1976.
• Allan Colburn Memorial Lectureship, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 1978.
• Allan Colburn Award - National AIChE, 1978.
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1984.
• Chevron Distinguished Professor of Chem. Engineering, Caltech, April 1986-July 1989.
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering (elected 1987).
• Stanley Corrsin Lectureship in Fluid Mechanics, Dept. of Chem. Eng., The Johns Hopkins University, 1990.
• Stanley Katz Memorial Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, Dept. of Chem. Eng., City College of the City University of New York, 1991.
• Reilly Memorial Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, April 1992.
• Texas Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, University of Texas-Austin, March 1993.
• William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature, AIChE 1993.
• Robert Pigford Lecturer, University of Delaware, April 1994.
• Rothschild Visiting Professor, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematics, University of Cambridge, U. K. January - March, 1996.
• Julian C. Smith Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering Cornell University April 1996.
• NASA Group Achievement Award for MSL-1 Project Team to L.G. Leal, June 30, 1999
• Rutgers Collaboratus X Lecturer, Dept. of Chem. and Biochemical Eng., Rutgers University, April, 2000.
• George K. Batchelor Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, U.K., May, 2000.
• NCE Cullimore Memorial Lecturer, NJIT, October 2001
• David M. Mason Lecturer, Dept. Chem. Eng., Stanford University, May 2004.
• Pirkey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Texas, April 2006
• W.N. Lacey Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, April 2008.
• 28th Annual Blue-Green Speaker, Depts. of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan and Michigan State University, November 2009.