Larry Lynnworth lectures ...

Here at FLEXIM, we were delighted to be taught a lesson. Lawrence C. "Larry" Lynnworth, whose research on ultrasonic flow measurement began over 40 years ago, did not shy away from the outskirts of Berlin when he came to the city as part of a tour of Germany and honoured the company headquarters with a visit. On 22 July 2009, employees and guests of FLEXIM enjoyed a lecture which offered far more than just a mundane paper on the latest technological achievements.

Larry Lynnworth has been involved in industrial ultrasonics since 1959. He worked at Panametrics, Inc. 1962-2002 and continued after the firm's acquisition by GE until retiring in September 2003. Most of his effort during these four decades in Waltham Massachusetts was devoted to ultrasonic flowmetering - developing transducers and flow measuring systems with colleagues from various continents. He holds 49 US patents as well as numerous others in Europe and Japan. Larry, an IEEE Life Fellow, is known in the international ultrasonic sensing community for his 1989 book "Ultrasonic Measurements for Process Control," chapters or articles in eight books edited by others (1979-2007), many publications, NASA New Technology and John Vaaler awards. In 2004, Larry Lynnworth founded Lynnworth Technical Services and has since been working as an independent expert and consultant. A partial bibliography of his many publications is given on his website,

www.lynnworthtechnicalservices.com

... and Prof. Otto Fiedler listens in

During Larry Lynnworth's talk at FLEXIM on the problems, solutions and perspectives of process measurement technology with ultrasound, one member of the audience followed the lecture with particular interest. Prof. Otto Fiedler, also a connoisseur of flow measurement, was in the auditorium. Prof. Fiedler, emeritus of the University of Rostock and member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, took the opportunity to discuss ultrasonic technology and flow science with the US expert. Those present were delighted with the first hand information on the vivid contemporary history of the technological progress made and were reminded of Sir Isaac Newton. Newton always had a humble understanding of his own achievements: "We are standing on the shoulders of giants."