Jerry Gollub and David Pine have forgotten, or perhaps never knew, that the movie they credited to G. I. Taylor was inspired by one made by the gifted applied physicist John P. Heller as part of research he published in the American Journal of Physics (volume 28, page 348, 1960) and elsewhere. For the low Reynolds number flow film for which Taylor was recruited by the National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films, Heller's demonstration was recreated without acknowledgment.
Having spent his career unsung in the old Mobil R&D laboratories in Dallas, Texas, Heller was not anointed for the recognition he deserved.
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