L. Gary Leal

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Leal received his B.S. degree from the University of Washington in 1965, M.S. degree from the Stanford University in 1968, and Ph.D. degree from the Stanford University in 1969; all in chemical engineering. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Andreas Acrivos.

Leal started his academic career in 1970 as an assistant professor in chemical engineering at California Institute of Technology. He became full professor in 1978. During 1986–1989, he was Chevron Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering. In 1989, Leal joined University of California, Santa Barbara as Professor and Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is currently the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at UCSB.

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• 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, 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.
• Co-Editor-in-Chief, Physics of Fluids, 1998-2015.
• 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, UK, 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.