Armand de Waele was a British

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 chemist

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, noted for his contributions to rheology

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, and after whom the Ostwald-de Waele

Power-law fluid

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 relationship for non-Newtonian fluid

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s is named.

de Waele was born in Islington

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, London

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, in 1887, the son of a Belgian father and French

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 mother. He held dual nationality until the age of 21, when he chose to be a British rather than Belgian. He obtained a BSc

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  from the Regent Street Polytechnic

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 then worked in the paint

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 and linoleum

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 industries. In 1914 he married a Frenchwoman with whom he had two sons, and the same year was conscripted into the Royal Flying Corps

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After the First World War he joined Gestetner

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 as Chief Research Chemist, where he remained till 1957 when he retired. During this period he published 30 papers on rheology and patents on duplicating as well as a book. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry

Royal Institute of Chemistry

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 and of the Institute of Physics

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Some Publications

• http://www.archive.org/details/rubberresinspai00waelgoog R.S. Morrell, A. de Waele (1920) Rubber, Resins, Paints and Varnishes (Van Nostrand)
• A. de Waele Journal of the Oil & Colour Chemists Association (1923) 6, pp33–69 "Viscometry and Plastometry"
• US Patent 1744755 (1930) Stencil sheet for use in duplicating
• US Patent 1828766 (1931) Production of stencil sheets for use in duplicating
• US Patent 1819078 (1931) Stencil sheet for use in duplicating typewritten or manuscript documents, drawings and the like*US Patent 1910005 (1933) Vulcanized or sulphurized oil composition
• http://journal.scconline.org/pdf/cc1956/cc007n04/p00336-p00346.pdf Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists (1956) 7, 4, pp336–346 "Introduction to the Rheology of Disperse Systems"