Maurice Joly 1978 Recipient of the Jean-Leonard-Marie Poiseuille Award Pioneering Contributions to the rheology of proteins and Biological Surfaces

During the Third International Congress of Biorheology, Maurice Joly was awarded the Poiseuille Gold Medal for his pioneering contributions to the rheology of proteins and biological surfaces and he gave the Poiseuille Award Lecture entitled "Biorheology, an Agent of Scientific Progress". This lecture described the study of the rheological properties of living systems and of their constitutive parts, of organized systems exracted from living systems, or of models of biological media. His particular topics cover a wide area of biorheology such as surface rheology, structures and interactions in mono layers, streaming bire fringence, rheology and rheo-optics of biopolymer solutions, physio-chemical and structural approach to the denaturation of proteins, trasformations in biopolymers, molecular inteactions between nucleic acids and proteins, pregelification of reversible gels, structural changes induced by flow in monolayers and colloidal systems, rheoturbidity, aggregation and dissociation induced by flow, interpretation of the rheological properties with regard to molecular interactions, and rheological behaviour of blood in transient flow.