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. Books L. G. Leal, Laminar Flow and Convective Transport Processes, Butterworth-Heinemann, Stoneham, Massachusetts, 740 pages (1992). L. G. Leal, Advanced Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics and Convective Transport Processes, Cambridge University Press, New York (2007). References External links Curriculum Vitae of L. Gary Leal Fluid dynamicists Stanford University alumni University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Rheologists 1943 births Living people Fellows of the American Physical Society Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering American chemical engineers Physics of Fluids editors