
%0 Journal Article
%A Tanner, Roger I. 
%A Masri, Assaad R. 
%T Robert William Bilger 1935&#x2013;2015
%J Historical Records of Australian Science
%D 2016/11/07
%V 27
%N 2
%P 133-143
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/HR16015
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR16015 
%X Robert William Bilger was born in Rustenburg, in the North-west Province of South Africa on 22 April 1935 and died in Sydney, New South Wales, on 2 October 2015. He had a distinguished academic career at the University of Sydney. His most important contribution to combustion research was the pioneering of conditional moment closure methods as a reliable predictive tool for turbulent reacting flows. He also made significant contributions to environmental flows and combustion chemistry. 
