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At the time of his death, he was one of only eleven chemical engineers worIc~wide to hold this honor. In Italy he received, in 1995, the Gold Medal for Excellence in Research from the Federation of Chemical Industries.
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He discovered previously unexpected discontinuities in the rates at which gas bubbles move through viscoelastic liquids and applied this understanding in later studies of devolatization processes in production of plastics and rubbers. Professor Astarita was one of the first scholars to note the surprisingly high resistance of viscoelastic fluids to extensional deformations, a subject that became one of the core components of much work in rheology in the ensuing three decades.
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While Professor Astarita's primary loves were clearly for his family and his profession, he enjoyed being near the water and was an avid boater, swimmer, diver, and spear-fisherman. He spent much of his spare time in a small fishing village, San Marco, on the coast south of Naples.
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